History of Robert Marshall Brough
by R. Clayton Brough and John M. Brough in 2012.
Robert Marshall Brough was born on 7 June 1914 in Lyman, Wyoming. His parents were Ernest LeRoy Brough and Mima Marshall. Marshall's father was a successful rancher and blacksmith in Lyman, but died at the age of 33 during the flu epidemic of 1918. Following her husband's death, Marshall's mother moved her five children to Evanston, Wyoming, and then in 1930 to Ogden, Utah. Marshall graduated from Ogden High School in 1932. During the Great Depression years of 1933-1934, Marshall worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a "Jack Hammer" and "Dynamiter" building a road through Blacksmith Fork Canyon east of Hyrum, Utah.
In 1934, Marshall moved to Los Angeles, California, taking a job with Sears Roebuck and Company in 1935. Marshall met his future wife, Utahna Clayton Peterson, at the LDS Wilshire Ward church in Los Angeles. On 11 June 1937, Marshall married Utahna Clayton Peterson in the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. Marshall and Utahna were the parents of five children, and raised their family in southern California. Marshall stood over six feet, six inches tall, and had a talented and powerful deep "basso profundo" voice. Between 1935 and 1954, he sang with the Los Angeles Grand Opera Company, which periodically performed at the Hollywood Bowl and the Philharmonic and Shrine Auditoriums.
For over 43 years, Marshall worked for Sears Roebuck and Company, retiring as manager of the Inglewood Sears Store in 1978. In the world of business Marshall was well known for his integrity and managerial skills. He served as President of the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce, Inglewood Rotary Club and Inglewood Merchants Association, and was Council Commissioner of the Los Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Marshall was a very generous man and expressed his love to others through his service to them--both within his family and to others he associated with. Marshall and Utahna loved and enjoyed their children and extended family, and took many family trips throughout California and the western United States. They were active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and contributed considerable time and resources towards documenting their ancestries and conducting genealogical research.
In May 1979, Marshall and Utahna moved from Los Angeles, California, to Orem, Utah. On 8 September 1979, Marshall died of a heart attack in Orem, Utah, and was buried on 12 September 1979 in Aultorest Cemetery in Ogden, Utah.
History of Utahna Clayton Peterson
Written by R. Clayton Brough and John M. Brough in 2012.
Utahna Clayton Peterson was born on 25 August 1912 in Preston, Idaho. Her parents were Baltzar Peterson and Marinda Clayton. Utahna's father was a successful farmer, businessman and and proprietor in Preston. Utahna's parents had eight children.
Utahna was an excellent dancer and seamstress. After graduating from Preston High School, she attended Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah, for three years. In 1933, she moved to Los Angeles, California, to attend Woodbury College of Fashion Design, and graduated with a degree in Costume Designing on April 4, 1936. She then worked as a dress and costume-period designer for MGM Studios.
Utahna met her future husband, Robert Marshall Brough, at the LDS Wilshire Ward church in Los Angeles, California. They were married on 11 June 1937 in the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. Marshall and Utahna were the parents of five children, and raised their family in southern California.
From 1937 to 1979, Marshall and Utahna lived in southern California, where Marshall was a successful businessman with Sears Roebuck and Company, and Utahna served in many volunteer organizations within her church and community. Utahna was a wonderful wife and mother. She always gave of herself unselfishly to her husband, children and others. Throughout her life she studied, applied and taught good health habits and diet to all she came in contact with.
Marshall and Utahna loved and enjoyed their children and extended family, and took many family trips throughout California and the western United States. They were active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and contributed considerable time and resources towards documenting their ancestries and conducting genealogical research.
In May 1979, Marshall and Utahna moved from Los Angeles, California, to Orem, Utah. On 27 May 1985, Utahna died from congestive heart failure, and was buried on 30 May 1985 in Aultorest Cemetery in Ogden, Utah.
Madeline's gravestone in the Preston cemetery is located at: NW 1 and 19.
Find A Grave reference: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38774641/madeline-utahna-brough
Obituary of Marsha-Lynne Utahna Brough Nelson (https://www.olpinmortuary.com/obituary/MarshaLynne-Nelson)
Marsha-Lynne Utahna Brough Nelson passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on August 28, 2021, at her home in Cedar Hills, Utah. She was born on April 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, to Robert Marshall Brough and Utahna Clayton Peterson, who were the parents of two daughters and three sons.
During her youth Marsha studied music and played the cello and piano. Her love of music continued throughout her life during which she played the piano and organ for numerous church services and community events.
In the early 1970’s, Marsha attended Brigham Young University where she earned a B.S. degree in history. While at BYU she met her sweetheart, Bryce Cecil Nelson, and they were married on April 19, 1974 in the LDS Los Angeles Temple. Marsha and Bryce were devoted to each other, and took their four children on many family trips.
During her married life and up until the time of death, Marsha worked as a loan officer or manager at different banks. Her integrity, positive personality, and knowledge of business practices was appreciated and admired by her colleagues and patrons.
Marsha was a very caring person and expressed her love to others through her service to them—both to her family and extended relatives and those she associated with. [She lived and loved the gospel of Jesus Christ, and participated in multiple church callings and events.]
Marsha is preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Madeline, and is survived by her husband, Bryce, their four children, David Nelson of Highland, Utah, Shannon Martin (Jared) of Queen Creek, Arizona, Matthew Nelson (Rebekah) of Pleasant Grove, Utah, and Daniel Nelson of American Fork, Utah, eleven grandchildren, and three brothers: John Brough (Nan) of Preston, Idaho, Clayton Brough (Ethel) of West Jordan, Utah, and Robert Brough (Charlene) of Orem, Utah.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. in the Ironwood Chapel located at 10455 Ironwood Dr, Cedar Hills, UT. Family and friends may attend a viewing from 9:00 -10:45 a.m. prior to the services. Interment will be in the Highland City Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.olpinmortuary.com.
Ernest Leroy Brough was first buried in Lyman, Wyoming on 19 October 1918. His body was later moved (in 1931) to "Mt. Ogden Memorial Park"--which was renamed to "Aultorest Cemetery" in Ogden, Utah.
History of Ernest LeRoy Brough and Mima Marshall
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants". Originally written by Ida Berenice Brough in 1980. Edited by R. Clayton Brough in August 2007.HISTORY:
Ernest LeRoy Brough was born on December 13, 1885 in Porterville, Utah, to Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry. Roy was the third son to Samuel Richard Brough, and as he grew up he was a great joy and comfort to his father.
Roy was a good natured boy and loved everyone. He particularly loved all of the Lord's creations, including any kind of animal, and tried to live by the teachings of the Gospel throughout his life.
As a youth, Roy was a fine young man with large blue eyes, brown curly hair, an honest face and a kind eye, and had a straight, strong and well-built body. He loved the outdoors and spent a great deal of time with his father and his two older brothers, Thomas and Jessie, taking care of the chores of a farm. In his dealings with his fellowman, he was always found to be more than fair. He believed in the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and he taught this principal to all his children.
Roy was a happy person and loved to dance. With his limber body and small feet he became well known for his dancing abilities. It was at one of these dances that he met the girl that was to become his wife: Mima Marshall, daughter of Ephraim Marshall and Ida Dotson. She was a pretty young lady and Roy really took to her. The only disappointment he found was that she was beginning to go out with his brother, Tom, and Roy knew that if he was ever going to get to know Mima, he had to learn to "beat Tom's time." So one night in 1909, Roy went to a church "box lunch dinner and dance," where the women fixed a lunch for two and placed it in a beautifully decorated lunch box to be raffled off later in the dance. Roy then spied which lunch box Mima had brought and bid top dollar for it. Of course, the price he paid for Mima's lunch box didn't bother him, since it gave him a chance to be with her. This began their courtship and they were finally married in the Salt Lake City L.D.S. Temple on July 28, 1909.
After Roy married Mima, he purchased a 960 acre ranch of his own on the Black Smith Fork River (which is about five miles out of Lyman, Wyoming) and did quite well. He and Mima fixed up the ranch house that was on the land, which had two rooms--a long room with a kitchen at one end and a small bedroom. Then Roy built a meat house just outside the kitchen door where Mima later hung and stored the meat that he slaughtered for the winter months. In addition, Roy and Mima owned a house in Lyman, Wyoming.
On August 30, 1910, Mima gave birth to Roy's first child and son, Louis LeRoy. As mentioned before, Roy and Mima really enjoyed dancing together and they often went to church dances, where they and other couples would bring their babies and put them to sleep along the wall of the dance floor on coats. However, one evening when Louis was still a baby, they decided to leave him at home, and when they returned from the dance they couldn't find him. They were frantic and feared that perhaps someone had kidnapped Louis. Finally after searching for some time, they heard a faint cry between the bed and the wall where Louis had been sleeping. Sure enough, there was Louis, caught in a blanket which was hanging between the wall and the bed. This event so scared Roy and Mima that they never left Louis alone in the house again until he was older. At the age of four, Louis became Roy's constant companion, with Roy often taking Louis out into the fields on horseback to care for the cattle.
On July 19, 1912, Mima gave birth to their second child, Ida Berenice, who quickly became the apple of her father's eye, as Roy never went on a trip but what he would bring something home for Berenice. She would have probably been spoiled if her father had lived longer. During the next few years, Roy saw two more of his children born: Robert Marshall, born on June 7, 1914; and Veda Mima, born on October 26, 1916.
Roy loved his children and took time to let them know he loved them and never punished them harshly or unwisely. After more children began to come, the ranch house became too small, so Mima and the children would spend the winter months in Roy's house in Lyman. Roy owned a blacksmith's shop in Lyman, and during the cold snowy months, when planting could not be done down on the ranch, he would work in his blacksmith shop. Every spring, Roy planted a large vegetable garden and instructed Louis and Berenice how to take care of it, this way teaching his children the value of work.
Roy was a very hard worker and had one of the largest cattle ranches in the region. The only bad habit he had was that he chewed tobacco whenever he did his slaughtering, and he was not a regular church goer. However, he never failed to see that his wife and family got to church and he was always at church to bless and name his children. In addition, Roy paid a full tithing every month for as long as he lived.
Roy lived to be only 33 years of age, but he lived those 33 years very fully and richly. In the middle of October, 1918, he made a trip by wagon to Carter, Wyoming, to bring back a load of coal for his family for the winter. However, on his way home he ran into a terrible blizzard, and by the time he reached his home he was very wet and cold. Mima had him get into some dry clothes, wrapped him in a blanket, gave him a hot toddy and stuck his feet in the oven. However, it was too late, for he had already gotten the flu and was running a very high fever. The flu was at an epidemic stage at this time and many families were dying from it. His father, mother, Mima's mother and oldest sister, Metta Heder, were all at Roy's house at the time, because Mima and the children had also come down with the flu. The epidemic was so bad that doctors would not even make house calls, and every family had to take care of themselves and their own dead. Roy died from the flu on October 16, 1918 and was buried by his father, Samuel R. Brough, his brother Thomas and brother-in-law, Clyde Bradshaw, on October 19, 1918 in Lyman. (His body was later moved to Ogden, Utah). A few hours following Roy's burial, Mima gave birth to their last child, a girl: Helen Metta, who just like her father, had large blue eyes and brown curly hair.
With the loss of her husband and the birth of their last child within two days of each other, Mima went through a very trying time. However, she knew what she had to do for her young family, and so she rolled up her sleeves and went ahead with life. Louis grew up over night and throughout his 21 years of life was a tremendous help to his mother.
Mima continued to live in Lyman a year after Roy's death. Then she decided that Lyman did not hold much future for her children, so in the latter part of 1919 she sold her husband's ranch, cattle livestock, their home and other major assets, and moved to Evanston, Wyoming where her mother, Ida Marshall Dotson, was living with her sister Metta Heder, who owned the Smith Hotel in Evanston. Mima stayed with her sister at the Smith Hotel until she was able to find a house to rent, thereby giving Louis and Berenice a chance to get started in their new school.
Mima finally moved her family into a small two-story house and remained there for a few years. This gave her and her children a chance to make new friends and for Mima to be able to find a house to buy. She then bought a large two-story house with a basement that belonged to a Mr. Bird, located at 341 Main Street in Evanston, and it was in this house where most of her children's memories began.
Mima took in roomers and boarders, and sewed, ironed and washed in order to be near her children and at the same time provide them with the necessities of life. She also gave piano lessons and saw to it that all her children learned to play a musical instrument. Louis learned to play the saxophone, Berenice the piano, Marshall the trombone, Veda the violin, and Helen sang. Many nights she and her children would gather in the parlor of their home for a musical evening, and since some of the boarders and roomers also played a musical instrument, they really had some exciting and beautiful evenings together. In these early years in Evanston, Mima set one night out of the week for her family to be together and called it a "family night." She did this in her own home long before the L.D.S. Church set it down as a practice, which all families should engage in today.
Mima was an industrious woman and made all her children's clothing from "hand-me-downs. She would take sugar and salt sacks and make the girls' underwear from them. She would also add lace and embroidery to her other remodeled clothing to make it more attractive. Berenice never had a store-bought dress or coat until she was in the eleventh grade in school, yet Mima's children were considered the best-dressed children in Evanston. Many nights Mima would sew all night in order to complete an article for a friend or neighbor, and then cook, wash, iron or whatever else had to be done for her children and boarders during the next day.
As busy as she was, Mima always had time to be close to her Church and her Father in Heaven, and saw to it that her children always got to their church meetings. Louis was very active in scouting and was called to be the Assistant Scout Master. He was a leader and was loved by all who knew him. He later became an Eagle Scout. He went on many of the scout outings and was given an honor for saving a boy's life while on a trip to Jackson Hole Lake in Wyoming.
The large house that Mima and her family lived in gave them many advantages because of the space inside and the large yard that surrounded it. During the time her children lived in the home, it was the largest house in their neighborhood and therefore its size encouraged neighborhood children to often gather for an evening of fun, sports and games. Mima always encouraged her children to bring their friends home. She was a good mother and always took time from her busy schedule to be with her children. She never went to sleep at night until she knew that all of her children were tucked snugly in their beds. Indeed, as Louis and Berenice began to date, they were encouraged by their mother to come into her bedroom and sit on their father's trunk beside the bed and relate their activities to her. She never discouraged any of her children in feeling free to talk with her.
The winters in Evanston were quite severe, but Mima taught her children to work hard, to be responsible for their deeds and actions, and to do whatever they did very well and completely. As they were growing up, Louis and Marshall regularly delivered papers on their bicycles, and when the weather really turned bad, such as during the winter, they delivered these papers in a small wagon, walking the whole route through town. These two boys never missed a single delivery to a customer all the time they had the paper route in Evanston. While living in Evanston, Mima cooked on a large coal stove and did her washing by hand with a hand wringer. Sometimes Louis and Berenice had to stay home from school on wash day to help her. She was finally able to purchase a copper-tub electric washing- machine, and that made things very much easier for her. Louis, Berenice, Marshall, Veda and Helen all remembered very well the tin bath tub that they had to use. It was so cold that hot water had to first be put in the tub just to warm up the tin. Also, their home first had a pot-bellied stove in the dining room that used coal and wood and that was where the children would gather around in the mornings to dress. Finally when the Utah Gas line was brought into Evanston, Mima was able to get gas into her home and she had her stove and furnace changed over to gas. The gas line brought more boarders into Mima's home and Louis got a job with the gas company as a laborer. One young man, Milton Kendall Maynard, was one of Mima's roomers and Louis really liked him. Milton later became one of Mima's sons-in-law, through the hard efforts of Louis.
After Louis graduated from Evanston High School, he got a job working for the Evanston Bank, while Marshall got a part-time job working in a mortuary.
In 1930, Mima moved her family to Ogden, Utah where they could have more advantages. She sold cosmetics and other things to help sustain her family, while Louis worked in a service station, and Berenice worked part time at the J & J Newberry Store in Ogden. A year after they had moved to Ogden, Louis, then 21 years of age, died from a ruptured appendix on June 10, 1931. This was hard on Mima, because she had first lost her husband, and now her oldest son was gone as well. However, she again held to her family and faith in the Gospel and carried on.
After Louis died, Veda went to Los Angeles, California to live with a cousin and to complete her high school education. When Marshall graduated from Ogden High School, he and a boy friend bought an old Model T-Ford car, fixed it up and headed for California. They got just outside of Los Angeles when the car broke down, and for a while they were forced to hike and sleep behind billboards. Fortunately, Marshall had an uncle living in the Los Angeles area, Uncle Fay Marshall, who took care of them for awhile. Eventually Marshall got a job working for Sears Roebuck and Company, after which he worked for Sears for over forty years and became manager of the large Sears store in Inglewood, California.
In the meantime, Mima got a job working in a home in Ogden taking care of a fine old gentleman and it gave her and Helen a place to live and an income besides. Milton and Berenice got married on February 14, 1934, in the Salt Lake Temple and made their home in Ogden, Utah. Berenice then gave birth to two children. While in Ogden, Mima continually worried about Veda and Marshall being in California, so in 1939 she went to California, leaving Helen to stay with Milt and Berenice so Helen could complete her high school education in Ogden.
While in California, Marshall met a fine young lady, Utahna Peterson from Preston, Idaho, and they were married on June 11, 1937 in the Salt Lake Temple. Five children were born into this family.
Veda met a returned missionary, Walter Otto Dorny, and they were married on April 28, 1938 in the Salt Lake Temple. Four children came from this marriage.
When Helen graduated from Ogden High School, she went to Los Angeles to live with her mother. Mima found a position in a home taking care of a man and his son, so she and Helen went there to live. The man was Rudolph Rode and his son was Robert Rode. Mima later married Rudolph, and Helen later married his son, Robert. Rudolph Rode was a fine man and loved Mima and her family very much. He truly became a father to Mima's children, who had missed having a father for so many years.
Helen worked for Sears for awhile in California and then got a fine job working for KHJ Radio Station. After she and Bob were married on August 5, 1942, Bob was called into the Navy during the Second World War and was shipped out on a torpedo boat into the Pacific Ocean. Helen then took a job at North American Defense Plant and did what she could for the war effort. Bob and Helen had three fine children. One of her children was killed in a car accident, which was a real shock to Helen and quite a trial for her, but she kept in mind the example that Mima had set for her and carried on as her mother had. Bob and Helen eventually divorced.
As Berenice, Marshall, Veda and Helen raised their families, they stayed close to their mother, and Mima was blessed with fourteen wonderful grandchildren. All eight of Mima's grandsons served missions for the L.D.S. Church, and all fourteen of her grandchildren were married in the House of the Lord to their companions. In addition, Berenice and Marshall spent considerable time and money throughout their lives doing genealogical research and temple work for their ancestors, with their two younger sisters, Helen and Veda, occasionally assisting them in these endeavors.
Mima lived to be 78 years old and saw many of the fruits of her labors come to pass. She died on July 13, 1965, of a heart attack at Knotts Berry Farm in California, while eating one of their wonderful chicken dinners. She was buried in Ogden, Utah in the Altorest Mortuary between her husband, Roy, and her oldest son, Louis. Since her death another daughter, Helen Metta, has died (on May 30, 1979), as has her second and last son, Robert Marshall (who died on September 8, 1979).
The birth date and place of Mima Marshall is listed as "27 May 1887" in "Minersville" Utah in her marriage sealing record of 2 February 1910 in the LDS Salt Lake Temple (FHL Special Collections Film # 1239565, page 133, item 2386).
The marriage of Mima Marshall (Brough) and Richard C. McDonald is listed in the online BYU-Idaho Marriage Index that can be found at: http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=1509526.
The marriage of Mima Marshall (Brough) and James S. Owens is listed in the online BYU-Idaho Marriage Index that can be found at: http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=688366. Also, this marriage is mentioned (without date or place) in the 1993 book by Kathaleen Kennington Hamblin: "Bridger Valley: A Guide To The Past", page 266.
History of Ernest LeRoy Brough and Mima Marshall
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants". Originally written by Ida Berenice Brough in 1980. Edited by R. Clayton Brough in August 2007.
Ernest LeRoy Brough was born on December 13, 1885 in Porterville, Utah, to Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry. Roy was the third son to Samuel Richard Brough, and as he grew up he was a great joy and comfort to his father.
Roy was a good natured boy and loved everyone. He particularly loved all of the Lord's creations, including any kind of animal, and tried to live by the teachings of the Gospel throughout his life.
As a youth, Roy was a fine young man with large blue eyes, brown curly hair, an honest face and a kind eye, and had a straight, strong and well-built body. He loved the outdoors and spent a great deal of time with his father and his two older brothers, Thomas and Jessie, taking care of the chores of a farm. In his dealings with his fellowman, he was always found to be more than fair. He believed in the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and he taught this principal to all his children.
Roy was a happy person and loved to dance. With his limber body and small feet he became well known for his dancing abilities. It was at one of these dances that he met the girl that was to become his wife: Mima Marshall, daughter of Ephraim Marshall and Ida Dotson. She was a pretty young lady and Roy really took to her. The only disappointment he found was that she was beginning to go out with his brother, Tom, and Roy knew that if he was ever going to get to know Mima, he had to learn to "beat Tom's time." So one night in 1909, Roy went to a church "box lunch dinner and dance," where the women fixed a lunch for two and placed it in a beautifully decorated lunch box to be raffled off later in the dance. Roy then spied which lunch box Mima had brought and bid top dollar for it. Of course, the price he paid for Mima's lunch box didn't bother him, since it gave him a chance to be with her. This began their courtship and they were finally married in the Salt Lake City L.D.S. Temple on July 28, 1909.
After Roy married Mima, he purchased a 960 acre ranch of his own on the Black Smith Fork River (which is about five miles out of Lyman, Wyoming) and did quite well. He and Mima fixed up the ranch house that was on the land, which had two rooms--a long room with a kitchen at one end and a small bedroom. Then Roy built a meat house just outside the kitchen door where Mima later hung and stored the meat that he slaughtered for the winter months. In addition, Roy and Mima owned a house in Lyman, Wyoming.
On August 30, 1910, Mima gave birth to Roy's first child and son, Louis LeRoy. As mentioned before, Roy and Mima really enjoyed dancing together and they often went to church dances, where they and other couples would bring their babies and put them to sleep along the wall of the dance floor on coats. However, one evening when Louis was still a baby, they decided to leave him at home, and when they returned from the dance they couldn't find him. They were frantic and feared that perhaps someone had kidnapped Louis. Finally after searching for some time, they heard a faint cry between the bed and the wall where Louis had been sleeping. Sure enough, there was Louis, caught in a blanket which was hanging between the wall and the bed. This event so scared Roy and Mima that they never left Louis alone in the house again until he was older. At the age of four, Louis became Roy's constant companion, with Roy often taking Louis out into the fields on horseback to care for the cattle.
On July 19, 1912, Mima gave birth to their second child, Ida Berenice, who quickly became the apple of her father's eye, as Roy never went on a trip but what he would bring something home for Berenice. She would have probably been spoiled if her father had lived longer. During the next few years, Roy saw two more of his children born: Robert Marshall, born on June 7, 1914; and Veda Mima, born on October 26, 1916.
Roy loved his children and took time to let them know he loved them and never punished them harshly or unwisely. After more children began to come, the ranch house became too small, so Mima and the children would spend the winter months in Roy's house in Lyman. Roy owned a blacksmith's shop in Lyman, and during the cold snowy months, when planting could not be done down on the ranch, he would work in his blacksmith shop. Every spring, Roy planted a large vegetable garden and instructed Louis and Berenice how to take care of it, this way teaching his children the value of work.
Roy was a very hard worker and had one of the largest cattle ranches in the region. The only bad habit he had was that he chewed tobacco whenever he did his slaughtering, and he was not a regular church goer. However, he never failed to see that his wife and family got to church and he was always at church to bless and name his children. In addition, Roy paid a full tithing every month for as long as he lived.
Roy lived to be only 33 years of age, but he lived those 33 years very fully and richly. In the middle of October, 1918, he made a trip by wagon to Carter, Wyoming, to bring back a load of coal for his family for the winter. However, on his way home he ran into a terrible blizzard, and by the time he reached his home he was very wet and cold. Mima had him get into some dry clothes, wrapped him in a blanket, gave him a hot toddy and stuck his feet in the oven. However, it was too late, for he had already gotten the flu and was running a very high fever. The flu was at an epidemic stage at this time and many families were dying from it. His father, mother, Mima's mother and oldest sister, Metta Heder, were all at Roy's house at the time, because Mima and the children had also come down with the flu. The epidemic was so bad that doctors would not even make house calls, and every family had to take care of themselves and their own dead. Roy died from the flu on October 16, 1918 and was buried by his father, Samuel R. Brough, his brother Thomas and brother-in-law, Clyde Bradshaw, on October 19, 1918 in Lyman. (His body was later moved to Ogden, Utah). A few hours following Roy's burial, Mima gave birth to their last child, a girl: Helen Metta, who just like her father, had large blue eyes and brown curly hair.
With the loss of her husband and the birth of their last child within two days of each other, Mima went through a very trying time. However, she knew what she had to do for her young family, and so she rolled up her sleeves and went ahead with life. Louis grew up over night and throughout his 21 years of life was a tremendous help to his mother.
Mima continued to live in Lyman a year after Roy's death. Then she decided that Lyman did not hold much future for her children, so in the latter part of 1919 she sold her husband's ranch, cattle livestock, their home and other major assets, and moved to Evanston, Wyoming where her mother, Ida Marshall Dotson, was living with her sister Metta Heder, who owned the Smith Hotel in Evanston. Mima stayed with her sister at the Smith Hotel until she was able to find a house to rent, thereby giving Louis and Berenice a chance to get started in their new school.
Mima finally moved her family into a small two-story house and remained there for a few years. This gave her and her children a chance to make new friends and for Mima to be able to find a house to buy. She then bought a large two-story house with a basement that belonged to a Mr. Bird, located at 341 Main Street in Evanston, and it was in this house where most of her children's memories began.
Mima took in roomers and boarders, and sewed, ironed and washed in order to be near her children and at the same time provide them with the necessities of life. She also gave piano lessons and saw to it that all her children learned to play a musical instrument. Louis learned to play the saxophone, Berenice the piano, Marshall the trombone, Veda the violin, and Helen sang. Many nights she and her children would gather in the parlor of their home for a musical evening, and since some of the boarders and roomers also played a musical instrument, they really had some exciting and beautiful evenings together. In these early years in Evanston, Mima set one night out of the week for her family to be together and called it a "family night." She did this in her own home long before the L.D.S. Church set it down as a practice, which all families should engage in today.
Mima was an industrious woman and made all her children's clothing from "hand-me-downs. She would take sugar and salt sacks and make the girls' underwear from them. She would also add lace and embroidery to her other remodeled clothing to make it more attractive. Berenice never had a store-bought dress or coat until she was in the eleventh grade in school, yet Mima's children were considered the best-dressed children in Evanston. Many nights Mima would sew all night in order to complete an article for a friend or neighbor, and then cook, wash, iron or whatever else had to be done for her children and boarders during the next day.
As busy as she was, Mima always had time to be close to her Church and her Father in Heaven, and saw to it that her children always got to their church meetings. Louis was very active in scouting and was called to be the Assistant Scout Master. He was a leader and was loved by all who knew him. He later became an Eagle Scout. He went on many of the scout outings and was given an honor for saving a boy's life while on a trip to Jackson Hole Lake in Wyoming.
The large house that Mima and her family lived in gave them many advantages because of the space inside and the large yard that surrounded it. During the time her children lived in the home, it was the largest house in their neighborhood and therefore its size encouraged neighborhood children to often gather for an evening of fun, sports and games. Mima always encouraged her children to bring their friends home. She was a good mother and always took time from her busy schedule to be with her children. She never went to sleep at night until she knew that all of her children were tucked snugly in their beds. Indeed, as Louis and Berenice began to date, they were encouraged by their mother to come into her bedroom and sit on their father's trunk beside the bed and relate their activities to her. She never discouraged any of her children in feeling free to talk with her.
The winters in Evanston were quite severe, but Mima taught her children to work hard, to be responsible for their deeds and actions, and to do whatever they did very well and completely. As they were growing up, Louis and Marshall regularly delivered papers on their bicycles, and when the weather really turned bad, such as during the winter, they delivered these papers in a small wagon, walking the whole route through town. These two boys never missed a single delivery to a customer all the time they had the paper route in Evanston. While living in Evanston, Mima cooked on a large coal stove and did her washing by hand with a hand wringer. Sometimes Louis and Berenice had to stay home from school on wash day to help her. She was finally able to purchase a copper-tub electric washing- machine, and that made things very much easier for her. Louis, Berenice, Marshall, Veda and Helen all remembered very well the tin bath tub that they had to use. It was so cold that hot water had to first be put in the tub just to warm up the tin. Also, their home first had a pot-bellied stove in the dining room that used coal and wood and that was where the children would gather around in the mornings to dress. Finally when the Utah Gas line was brought into Evanston, Mima was able to get gas into her home and she had her stove and furnace changed over to gas. The gas line brought more boarders into Mima's home and Louis got a job with the gas company as a laborer. One young man, Milton Kendall Maynard, was one of Mima's roomers and Louis really liked him. Milton later became one of Mima's sons-in-law, through the hard efforts of Louis.
After Louis graduated from Evanston High School, he got a job working for the Evanston Bank, while Marshall got a part-time job working in a mortuary.
In 1930, Mima moved her family to Ogden, Utah where they could have more advantages. She sold cosmetics and other things to help sustain her family, while Louis worked in a service station, and Berenice worked part time at the J & J Newberry Store in Ogden. A year after they had moved to Ogden, Louis, then 21 years of age, died from a ruptured appendix on June 10, 1931. This was hard on Mima, because she had first lost her husband, and now her oldest son was gone as well. However, she again held to her family and faith in the Gospel and carried on.
After Louis died, Veda went to Los Angeles, California to live with a cousin and to complete her high school education. When Marshall graduated from Ogden High School, he and a boy friend bought an old Model T-Ford car, fixed it up and headed for California. They got just outside of Los Angeles when the car broke down, and for a while they were forced to hike and sleep behind billboards. Fortunately, Marshall had an uncle living in the Los Angeles area, Uncle Fay Marshall, who took care of them for awhile. Eventually Marshall got a job working for Sears Roebuck and Company, after which he worked for Sears for over forty years and became manager of the large Sears store in Inglewood, California.
In the meantime, Mima got a job working in a home in Ogden taking care of a fine old gentleman and it gave her and Helen a place to live and an income besides. Milton and Berenice got married on February 14, 1934, in the Salt Lake Temple and made their home in Ogden, Utah. Berenice then gave birth to two children. While in Ogden, Mima continually worried about Veda and Marshall being in California, so in 1939 she went to California, leaving Helen to stay with Milt and Berenice so Helen could complete her high school education in Ogden.
While in California, Marshall met a fine young lady, Utahna Peterson from Preston, Idaho, and they were married on June 11, 1937 in the Salt Lake Temple. Five children were born into this family.
Veda met a returned missionary, Walter Otto Dorny, and they were married on April 28, 1938 in the Salt Lake Temple. Four children came from this marriage.
When Helen graduated from Ogden High School, she went to Los Angeles to live with her mother. Mima found a position in a home taking care of a man and his son, so she and Helen went there to live. The man was Rudolph Rode and his son was Robert Rode. Mima later married Rudolph, and Helen later married his son, Robert. Rudolph Rode was a fine man and loved Mima and her family very much. He truly became a father to Mima's children, who had missed having a father for so many years.
Helen worked for Sears for awhile in California and then got a fine job working for KHJ Radio Station. After she and Bob were married on August 5, 1942, Bob was called into the Navy during the Second World War and was shipped out on a torpedo boat into the Pacific Ocean. Helen then took a job at North American Defense Plant and did what she could for the war effort. Bob and Helen had three fine children. One of her children was killed in a car accident, which was a real shock to Helen and quite a trial for her, but she kept in mind the example that Mima had set for her and carried on as her mother had. Bob and Helen eventually divorced.
As Berenice, Marshall, Veda and Helen raised their families, they stayed close to their mother, and Mima was blessed with fourteen wonderful grandchildren. All eight of Mima's grandsons served missions for the L.D.S. Church, and all fourteen of her grandchildren were married in the House of the Lord to their companions. In addition, Berenice and Marshall spent considerable time and money throughout their lives doing genealogical research and temple work for their ancestors, with their two younger sisters, Helen and Veda, occasionally assisting them in these endeavors.
Mima lived to be 78 years old and saw many of the fruits of her labors come to pass. She died on July 13, 1965, of a heart attack at Knotts Berry Farm in California, while eating one of their wonderful chicken dinners. She was buried in Ogden, Utah in the Altorest Mortuary between her husband, Roy, and her oldest son, Louis. Since her death another daughter, Helen Metta, has died (on May 30, 1979), as has her second and last son, Robert Marshall (who died on September 8,
Marriage Notes for Ernest LeRoy Brough and Mima Marshall-31
"Ernest LeRoy Brough" and "Mima Marshall" were sealed in the LDS Salt Lake Temple on 2 February 1910 (FHL Special Collections Film # 1239565, page 133, item 2386).
According to John M. Brough: "When Louis died he was working as a bookkeeper for the Ogden Gas & Save Company. He died of appendicitis which he had for seven days. At the time of his death he was living at: "763-24th Street in Ogden, Utah."
Obituary of John Marshall Brough, by R. Clayton Brough, 3 February 2023
John Marshall Brough passed away on February 3, 2023, near his home in Preston, Idaho. He was born on April 29, 1939, in Los Angeles, California. He was the first child and son of Robert Marshall Brough and Utahna Clayton Peterson.
As a young man John was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and earned his Eagle Scout award. During his high school years, John played baseball and participated in ROTC activities and cross-country and track events. In 1957 he graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, California.
Following his high school graduation, John attended Utah State University in Logan, Utah, for two years, before accepting a call to serve a two-year church mission to Great Britain.
From 1959 to 1961, John was a missionary in the British Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in such areas as Manchester, London, Brighton, South Hampton, Staffordshire and Wales. He also served as an Assistant to the British Mission President, President Browning Woodbury.
After returning home from his mission John resided in southern California, where he worked for Sears & Roebuck Company and later for Pacific Bell Telephone and Telegraph. In 1965, John married Linda D. Smith; they divorced in 1984.
During the early 1960’s, John served two years in USC’s Air Force ROTC. From 1964 to 1968, he served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserves. He flew a Lockheed T33 Jet Trainer plane between Los Angeles and Nellis Air Force Base (in southern Nevada) during training periods and was getting ready to fly F105 Thunderbirds until he decided not to reenlist following his four-year military service in 1968.
In 1985, John moved to Preston, Idaho, where he worked on a number of construction projects in southern Idaho and northern Utah. On September 1,1990, John married Nannette Lower in Preston.
In 2002, John retired from construction work and began serving as a volunteer genealogist and historian for the Brough Family Organization. His dedicated efforts and unique research abilities resulted in numerous additions, corrections and extensions to the genealogies and histories of many Brough-related families and their descendants in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. John also served as a staff member and genealogical consultant at the Family History Center in Preston, Idaho.
John is preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Madeline and Marsha-Lynne, and is survived by his loving wife, Nannette Lower; by his step-son, Brent Croshaw; and by his brothers, R. Clayton Brough and Robert M. Brough, Jr.
Services will be held on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home, 1005 S. 800 E., Preston, Idaho. A viewing will be held Wednesday from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Preston Cemetery. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at webbmortuary.com
(Website: https://www.webbmortuary.com/obituaries/john-brough)
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Note: Following his death, John's remains were cremated and his ashes were buried on 17 May 2023 in Preston (cemetery and city), Franklin (county), Idaho.
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Obituary of Nannette Lower Brough (https://www.webbmortuary.com/obituaries/nanette-brough)
Nannette Lower was born as the daughter of Paul Leslie Lower and Lorraine Butterworth on 15 Jun 1940 in Logan, Utah. She passed away on 3 Feb 2024, in Preston, Idaho.
Aside from her family, her greatest love and joy in life was from the many dogs she had over her lifetime—they truly were her adopted children. Nan was an avid football fan with a extraordinary passion for BYU and the Dallas Cowboys. She knew the game well and could talk stats and facts with about any football enthusiast. When her children were young, she was ambitiously engaged with the Cub Scout program and later became an “Eagle Scout mom.” Camping with her family in the Island Park and Yellowstone areas, or a simple outing in the Willow Flats area were specials places and times in her life. When at home, she spent time in her garden caring for her “prized” roses.
The family sends special gratitude to Dr. Beckstead, the nursing & hospital staff, Mike & Dorothy Lower, and her ministers Trace Bracken and Paul Seare.
Nan is survived by her children, Terri Ramsey, Randon Croshaw, Brent Croshaw, Jana Weaver, Brad Croshaw and Blake Croshaw; her brother Michael Lower and sister in-law Dorothy Lower. She has 8 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son Bryan Lee Croshaw.
A celebration of life will be held Sunday February 18, 2024, at 5pm at Webb Funeral Home, 1005 South 800 East, Preston, Idaho. A visitation will be held prior to the celebration of life from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at webbmortuary.comAdditional Comment by R. Clayton Brough:
Nannette (Nan) Lower married Claire John Croshaw in 1957 in Logan, Utah. They had seven children between 1958 and 1972. Nan and Claire later divorced. In 1990 Nan married John Marshall Brough in Preston, Idaho. Nan died on 3 February 2024--exactly one year after John had died (who passed away on 3 February 2023). Following her death, Nan's remains were cremated and her ashes were buried on 31 March 2024 in Franklin (cemetery and city), Franklin (county), Idaho.
Marriage Notes for John Marshall Brough and Nannette Lower-17
No children.
Thomas Brough states in his journal that Samuel Richard Brough was born at "1 A.M. on the 20th of August 1857 at Rocky Branch near Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois."
Material for most of this Family Group Record of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter comes from the 1980 RBFO book: "The Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947, His History, Ancestors and Descendents."
History of Samuel Richard Brough
Quoted and edited from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestry & Descendants".
On August 20, 1857 Samuel Richard Brough, the third son and fourth child of Thomas Brough and Jane Patterson, was born in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. His father was engaged in farming, and it was on this farm that Samuel and his three younger sisters were born. In June 1864 Samuel's father and mother prepared for their long-awaited crossing of the "Great American Plains" to Utah. This was to be the final leg of the journey that began back in England in 1856 when this young family left to join the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in far-away Utah.
With a yoke of oxen to pull their wagon and one milk cow to provide milk for their family, this young family of eight started out with other families to spend the next three and one-half months crossing the plains to Utah. During all of this time they were exposed to Indians, buffalo and other hazards common to the wilds of America in those early days. They finally arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah on September 18, 1864. About half-way across the plains one of the oxen died so the milk cow, together with one of their neighbor's cows, was yoked up in place of the oxen and the one remaining ox was placed in lead of the cows, and the journey was completed successfully in this manner.
It was so late in the year that there wasn't enough time for them to build a cabin, so a room was dug in the side of a hill (12 feet by 14 feet) and covered with brush and dirt. It was in this room where Samuel, his father and mother, four sisters and one brother spent their first winter in Utah. It was extremely cold, with snow sometimes reaching a depth of four feet.
The following spring, Samuel's father, who had been a brick mason in England, made the brick and built a two-room brick home for his family and then started to farm some of the land that he was able to obtain. For the next seven years Samuel spent his time working on the farm and helping in his father's brickyard. He enjoyed trapping and was able to catch many red fox, mink and other fur-bearing animals during the winter months.
For two years, after Samuel turned 14, he spent working on the freight road using oxen to move his loads. When he turned 16 he went to Wyoming to work on a flume, twenty-eight miles long, which brought timber from the mountains down into the valley to make lumber, railroad ties and charcoal. He spent his 18th year working as a carpenter for the Utah and Northern Railroad in Idaho.
Young Samuel Richard Brough returned to Porterville that next year and worked in a lumber mill hauling timber from the mountains for the Union Pacific Railroad. During his 21st year he worked for his father in his brickyard getting half of the brick that he made for his own use. He used this brick to build a home for himself. Late in October of his 22nd year, he went to Colorado and New Mexico to help build the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
In the spring of 1881 he returned home to Porterville, and on June 2, 1881, he married Phoebe Adeline Cherry in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah. They then returned to Porterville to the home that Samuel had built to start their married life together. Here Samuel was able to buy some farm land and also one-half interest in a lumber and shingle mill. By hiring some help he was successful in operating his farm and mill. During the winter season he hauled timber out of the mountains to his saw mill.
During the next four and one-half years he continued in this line of work and started to raise a family. Three sons were born during this period of time. Thomas James Brough was born on February 19, 1882, Jesse Samuel Brough was born on February 12, 1884, and Ernest LeRoy Brough was born on December 12, 1885.
The year 1886 was to be a memorable year in the life of Samuel Richard Brough, for on October 1, 1886 he received a call from President John Taylor to leave for a mission to Great Britain. He was to leave on October 26, 1886. Just five days before he boarded the steamship Alaska for England, he took Ann Eliza Carter to the Logan Temple and married her for time and all eternity to live in plural marriage with his first wife, Phoebe Adeline Cherry. In order to cover his mission expenses, he had to sell half of his farm and some cattle, leaving his mill property to be rented or sold. Ann Eliza Carter returned to her family to await his return from his mission.
Elder Samuel Richard Brough left for Great Britain on October 26, 1886, going by way of New York and on the Steamship Alaska, arriving in Liverpool, England on November 10, 1886. He was sent immediately to South Wales where he served as a traveling elder for almost one and one-half years. Many were the faith-promoting experiences that he had with the Welsh people.
After serving as a traveling elder he was called to preside over the Welsh Mission. After serving in this capacity for almost one year he was called to preside over the Irish Mission until June 17, 1890, and then he was called to preside over the Scottish Mission. Each call was for a particular purpose and he witnessed the hand of the Lord in and during each call. On September 29, 1890, he received an honorable release. However, before returning to the United States, Samuel traveled to Longton, Staffordshire, and stayed for seventeen days (November 8-24, 1890) with his aunt, Mary Ann Brough and her husband Robert Evans, in their home at "58 Lord Street, Woodhouse N Longton". While staying in Longton, Samuel collected genealogical and historical information on his Brough ancestry. He also visited the Parish Churches in Longton, Trentham, Dresdon and Stoke-on-Trent, and gathered many family names (of deceased relatives) for eventual LDS temple work. He returned to Utah in December 1890. The following hand-written account is taken from Samuel's missionary journal and details what he did during the days he stayed with Mary Ann Brough and Robert Evans in Longton, England:
Saturday, November 8, 1890: Today I started to Longton [Staffordshire, England] at 12 Noon. Arrived ok about 3 PM. I met some of my relatives. I was kindly received by all. I went to Aunt Mary Ann [Mary Ann Brough Evans], my father's sister and abode with her and [her] family. I spent a pleasant evening.
Sunday, November 9, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and go [went] to chapel with Uncle Robert Evans and from there to Aunt Martha's [Martha Lowe Paterson] residence (she being the widow of Uncle Robert [Watson] Paterson my mother's brother). She was delighted to see me. I ate dinner with her and had a chat for several hours during which time she informed me it was just 39 years to-day since she and Robert [Watson Paterson] were married and narrated the incident quiet fully which was interesting to me. At 6:30 she and I went to chapel and spent quite an interesting evening. I returned to Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans].
Monday, November 10, 1890: Today I attended to some correspondence and then visited Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] (Widow), Uncle Richard Brough's wife, and ate dinner and was very kindly received. I then started in search of records from which to obtain the genealogy of my Father's house. I first went to the Registrar of Longton District but his records only dated back to 1837 which date was too recent. I then went to the minister of St. John's church and arranged with him to search his records from 1764 (the oldest he had) to 1837 for ten shillings. I then went back in town and purchased some note books and prepared for genealogical search in the morrow. I returned to Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans, at] 58 Lord Street Woodhouse North Longton and brought up [to date] my journal and wrote a letter to my mother.
Tuesday, November 11, 1890: Today I searched the baptismal records from 1764 to 1837 inclusive and secured over 60 names of Brough. In the evening I recorded some in my family register and wrote two letters to America.
Wednesday, November 12, 1890: Today I went to Stoke to try and arrange with the parish registrar to search the records of the parish. I found it would cost me about four shillings [?] for each name and concluded to search through the church records as they are much cheaper. I went to [the] Trentham church minister and arranged to search the records of that church next Friday 14th inst[ant]. I returned to Longton and in the evening visited some of my relatives in company with Cousin Thomas Evans [the son of Robert Evans and Mary Ann Brough].
Thursday, November 13, 1990: Today I attended to considerable correspondence and in the evening went to the landmark where my Grandfather (Richard Brough) and some of his uncles made brick about 60 years ago. I gathered a few leaves to place in my scrap book as a Token of Remembrance of the noted place. I then went to Rev. W. B. Smith and arranged with him to search the baptismal records of St. John's church from 1837 up to the present. I expect to commence my search next Monday, November 17th 1890.
Friday, November 14, 1890: today I walked to Trentham 3½ miles to search the records of the Trentham church and on my arrival learned the minister was called away on business. I then walked back to Longton and searched the records in St. John's church from 1839 to 1890 and obtained some names. The minister of this church then kindly gave me a very favorable recommend to the minister of St. James church in this city. I went to 58, attended to some correspondence and retired.
Saturday, November 15, 1890: Today I went to St. James church and presented my recommend to the minister and at once got the privilege to search the records from 1834 to date--all they had. I obtained a good few names without the least charge and on my departure I thanked the minister most kindly and gave him two shillings and six pence and also presented him with a copy of the Voice of Warning of which he accepted with thanks and I left him feeling first class. I returned to 58 and replied to some correspondence and had a chat with Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] and retired.
Sunday, November 16, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and met in chapel with some of the followers of Smeedenbury. I observed their manner of worship... I spent some time with Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and her folks in the afternoon and in the evening met with some who termed themselves a Christian Society....
Monday, November 17, 1890: Today I called on Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and took dinner with her and then visited cousin Lucy [Lucy Smith-the daughter of Joseph Hinton Smith and Adry Brough] and had a nice chat with her and family. Then to Thomas Bott (Aunt Besse's brother) [and the brother of Elizabeth Bott--who married Samuel Brough, and the son of Benjamin Bott and Elizabeth Abbotts] and gave him some tracts and sold him a Voice of Warning. I had a lengthy chat on the Gospel.
Tuesday, November 18, 1890: Today I presented Uncle Robert [Evans] and Aunt Mary Ann [Brough] Evans with a most beautiful album written on the fly leaf Compliments of nephew Samuel Richard Brough and then attended to considerable correspondence and in the evening spent a little time in town [and] went to Dresden in search of genealogies. I met with some encouragement. I was accompanied by John Kelsal [John Kelsall--the husband of Ann Myatt (Brough)].
Wednesday, November 19, 1990: Today I sought after genealogy and in the evening presented Cousin Ann Kelsal [Ann Myatt (Brough) Kelsall, who was] (married) with a beautiful album written in the fly leaf Compliments of cousin Samuel Richard Brough to cousin Ann Kelsal Nov 19th 1890. I then went to Aunt Martha Paterson [Martha Lowe Paterson and] I made a similar present with the same inscription on the fly leaf except the name. Both were accepted with heartfelt thanks. I spent some time with Aunt Martha [Lowe Paterson] and returned to 58.
Thursday, November 20, 1890: I rise [arose] in good time and walked to Trentham four miles and searched the records of the same back to 1525 being ably assisted by Rev. E. B. Pigott who I found exceeding kind and would not charge me anything whatever for his service. I thanked him very kindly and on leaving presented him one copy each of the Book of Mormon and Voice of Warning. He accepted them with thanks and spoke especially of the Book of Mormon and said he would place it in his library and take good care of it. I gathered 101 names and left rejoicing and considerably satisfied.
Friday, November 21, 1890: Today I spent a good portion of the time in arranging and recording the genealogy gathered in this part, and in the evening went to the theatre with four of my second cousins (ladies) and we had a splendid time [and] the play was titled The Still Alarm. I called on Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and gave her one shilling worth of ale. She accepted it with many thanks. She is over three score years old and receives much comfort from her pipe.
Saturday, November 22, 1890: Today I finished my labors in recording and arranging the genealogy I have gathered on my Father's house and have labored faithful and traveled a great deal from place to place and person to person. I have gathered near 200 names and feel quite pleased with my labors. My mind is now at rest and I feel willing to return home. In the evening I visited some of the Bott's, Aunt Besse's [Elizabeth Brough-who married Samuel Brough] relatives. Also called on a photographer and purchased a portrait of Longton Park and St. Johns Church where my Grandmother Brough was buried and sold him [the photographer] a Book of Mormon and gave him some tracts and left him feeling quiet satisfied with the purchase and our conversation. I returned to 58 and Uncle Robert Evans made me a present of a nice pair of winter gloves.
Sunday, November 23, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and met with Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and relatives at her respective residence and too dinner and had a good chat about matters generally. Cousin Ann [Ann Myatt (Brough) Kelsall] gave me a nice China Mustache Cup and Saucer and 6 China Tea Cups and Saucers. Also sent a rare beautiful cup and saucer to my mother and her daughter gave me a very pretty China Cup and Saucer for my wife. I accepted all with kindness and many thanks. I bid them farewell and left them in profound friendship. I called on Cousin Lucy [Lucy Smith-the daughter of Joseph Hinton Smith and Adry Brough] and family [and] had a pleasant visit and bid them adieu. Then called on Aunt Martha Paterson and had a friendly chat and she gave me a pair of winter gloves for each of my little boys and a pair for my mother. Also sent a present and token of respect to my wife and sisters Emily and Alice. A young man who was lodging with Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] gave me a most beautiful China Mustache Cup and saucer elaborately decorated with gold and flowers and written on it in gold letters (A present to Samuel Richard Brough by John Lester). I gave him a Book of Mormon and Voice of Warning and accepted all with grateful heart and bid them farewell. I went to the place the Latter-day Saints met for worship 55 years ago when my Father and Mother were here. I returned to 58 [and] had a chat with Uncle [Robert Evans] and Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] about the folks and affairs at home and retired.
Monday, November 24, 1890: I received a pair of socks for myself and a nice apron for my wife as a present from Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans] and packed up some of my presents and sent to Liverpool by R.R [railroad] and bid the folks farewell and many thanks for all kindness. I started for Nottingham by Rail Road and arrived about 2 PM and went to the Nottingham Cemetery and visited Jesse Yelton Cherry's grave (my wife's uncle) [who was born in 1840 in Illinois and died in 1865 in Nottingham]. He died while here on a mission preaching the Gospel in May 20th 1865 aged 25 years. I spent a pleasant evening with the Brethren here and had a chat about the folks and affairs at home.
Tuesday, November 25, 1890: Today I wrote a letter to James J. Cherry my Father-in-law and Brother to the above deceased. I took [a] train for Swansea, South Wales, at 11:50….
On December 6, 1890, Samuel Richard Brough left England and arrived in Porterville, Utah on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1890, having been away from home and his family just over four years and two months.
In the spring of 1891 he hired out to Henry Florence and Sons Company and ran their sawmill at Hilliard, Wyoming. During the winter of that year he made railroad ties in Hardscrabble Canyon and sold them to the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
In the spring of 1892, he took his wife Ann Eliza Carter and went to Fort Bridger Valley to use his homestead rights and he settled on 160 acres in what is now known as Lyman, Wyoming. During the summer he chopped cedar posts and hewed house logs in the mountains and sold them to settlers in the valley. During the fall he built a log house 16' by 24' on his homestead. He then took his wife back to Salt Lake City where his first plural child, Horace, was born on November 16, 1892.
In the spring of 1893 he took his wife Ann Eliza Carter and son Horace and returned to his homestead in Wyoming. At that time he was set apart by President Cluff of the Summet Stake as Presiding Elder of the scattered saints in that area. He was able to clear some eight acres with a grubbing hoe and in the fall, seeded them into winter wheat thus starting his first crop on his homestead. In November he located his wife and son in Fort Bridger for the winter and returned to his family in Porterville and worked in the timber during the winter.
In the spring of 1894 he returned to his homestead with a team and farm seeds for the season and found his wife and son in good health. He proceeded to clear more land and seeded for a larger crop on his homestead. In June his second son of his plural marriage, Franklin Reed, was born. He raised a crop of wheat, oats, rye and potatoes. In the fall he again placed his wife Ann Eliza Carter and two sons in a good home in Fort Bridger for the winter and returned to his family in Porterville, Utah. On November 18, 1894, his first daughter, Laura Adeline, was born to his first wife Phoebe Adeline Cherry. During the winter he worked in the timber in Hardscrabble Canyon.
For the next two years he followed this plan, returning to his homestead in the spring and clearing more land and planting and harvesting more crops and helping the saints in that area, and then returning to Porterville during the winter, working in the timber and spending some time in the temple working on the names that he had gathered while on his mission.
In the spring of 1898 he built a house on his homestead for his first wife and family, and for the first time he had all of his family together. On June 8, 1898, he was ordained the bishop of the Owen Ward (now renamed the Lyman Ward) by Apostle John Henry Smith, and he served in this position until released on February 22, 1916. During all of this time he held many positions of leadership in that community, even serving on the Stake Board of Education for the Woodruff Stake while he was still bishop. By the early 1900's, Samuel had acquired 560 acres of land in and around Lyman, Wyoming. Also, during his stay in Wyoming, Samuel gave some of his properties to the town of Lyman, Wyoming, with the restriction that "liquors" were never to be made, sold or distributed from such properties.
Between 1917 and 1920, his properties in Wyoming were sold and those who were still living at home moved to Bountiful, Utah where they engaged in truck farming. This also enabled Samuel Richard Brough and his wife to do more work in the temple for their kindred dead. On April 18, 1921 he was called to be a temple worker in the Salt Lake Temple which was to last for many years, even until 1946. Also, from 1918 to 1938, Samuel served as the first president of the Brough Family Organization--which today is one of the oldest and largest ancestral family organization and surname associations in the world.
Samuel Richard Brough was really a remarkable man. One of the outstanding characteristics of this great pioneer was that throughout the many years that he served as a temple worker, even up to the last few years of his life, he always managed to spend the summers working and saving so that he could continue to spend the majority of his time during the remainder of the year working in the temple and fulfilling his calling as a temple worker.
Samuel Richard Brough raised an exceptional family. Many of his sons became LDS bishops, high councilmen and stake presidents in their own areas. One son was ordained a patriarch. His girls were also very active and served the Lord as they had been taught by their mothers. On May 8, 1947, he passed away, having spent some 89 years, 8 months and 18 days on this earth. He raised 15 of his children to manhood and womanhood, having lost two sons in their infancy. He sent five of his children on full-time missions besides serving more than four years of his life on a mission in England. He left one of the greatest heritages for his posterity, and his two wonderful companions added their greatness to his. How blessed we are to be able to call them our ancestors, for they left us a heritage that cannot be equaled today.
The LDS baptism of "Phebe A. Cherry" is listed in the Centerville Ward Records, Centerville, Utah (FHL Film # 25855, page 18), which states that she was baptized and confirmed on November 10, 1868.
History of Phoebe Adeline Cherry
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestory & Descendants". Originally written by Laura Adeline Brough Bradshaw.HISTORY:
Phebe Adeline Cherry was born September 7, 1860, at Centerville, Utah to her father, John James Cherry and her mother, Laura Bratten Cherry who were 1847 pioneers. Most of her childhood and teenage years were spent in Centerville and Porterville. She was a beautiful young lady with natural curly auburn hair, slim and trim, a special sweet person in every way. While living with her parents in Porterville, Utah she met a fine young man named Samuel Richard Brough, the son of Thomas Richard Brough and Jane Patterson. After a few years' courtship, they were married June 2, 1881 in the L.D.S. Endowment House on Temple Square by Apostle Daniel H. Wells and moved into a lovely new brick home father had built during their courtship years. He and his father had made the bricks at their brickyard, and the house is still being lived in in 1979.
Father was owner and manager of a sawmill located in Hardscrabbel Canyon not far from Porterville and was quite well financially for a young man those days. It was a very happy marriage. Father was a handsome young man, well built six foot three with lots of curly black hair. They were very happy in their new honeymoon home. It was built just across the street from his mother and father's home.
As time passed on, their first son Thomas James was born, February 19, 1882; their second son Jesse Samuel was born February 12, 1884; and on December 12, 1885 another little son with black curly hair, Ernest LeRoy, came to bless them in their happy home. By this time father had about 25 head of cattle and a good little farm and was doing very well. He was a good carpenter and had made some very nice furniture for their home. They were both very active and faithful in their church duties, and before the Manifesto the President of the Church had asked the men to take a second wife and practice polygamy. They talked it over and decided, as it was part of the church teachings, they would try and do it. After much thought and sincere prayers they decided on a good L.D.S. girl, Ann Eliza Carter. So mother (bless her heart, what a wonderful woman) went with father to ask another young girl to be his wife.
Soon after their marriage father was called to go to Great Britain on a mission where he labored for four years as mission president. Soon after his return home, he felt like he needed more land and a larger place for his two families. Aunt Eliza, as we always called his second wife, had still lived with her family while father was on his mission. Mother worked very hard to pay for his mission expenses and take care of herself and three little boys. She took in boarders, did lots of sewing for others and anything else she could do to make a little money. They had a very good friend, Moses Critchlow, who had worked with father at the sawmill who took care of the cattle for her and helped her with other things when needed, but before father got home she had sold all the cattle for expenses for his mission. Aunt Eliza helped all she could.
Father heard that the government was opening land for homesteaders about five miles east of the Old Fort Bridger, so he and Aunt Eliza went out there and took up the land, 160 acres, and built a two-room log house. The next summer mother went up and homesteaded on her land and lived there as the law required and then in the winter went back to her home in Porterville, Utah. Their fourth son, Wallace Calvin, was born September 27, 1891, another fine little blonde boy.
Mother would live at Wyoming in the summer and then return to Porterville for the older boys to go to school. On November 18, 1893, their first little baby girl was born. They were very happy to have a lovely little daughter. They named her Laura Adeline. Laura after my Grandmother Cherry and Adeline after my mother. I was about three years old when father sold the home and farm in Porterville and moved to Wyoming to stay, but I can remember Grandmother Brough and her home across the street. I remember after her death of a little jacket with four box pleats across the back that looked like a little bustle which was given to mother. When I was big enough I wore it to school.
In Wyoming father had built another good-sized log building that mother and our family lived in, and at harvest time father had to partition to make rooms to store the different kinds of grain and we children had to sleep on top of the grain. He left a room about 15 feet square in the center for mother to cook, wash, iron and everything else needed for the family, with a homemade bed in one corner for her and father. We always had a big, lovely garden with everything in it but tomatoes and corn, (the frost came too early to raise them) and plenty of eggs and chickens. As father was the bishop we had lots of cooking to do for our big family and lots of company. She was an excellent cook and everything always tasted so good. She would make carrot pies that tasted like squash and the best ones out of dried peaches with rich cream or ice cream on top. I can almost taste them now, and the best bread and cinnamon rolls.
Father and the boys worked very hard clearing more ground of sagebrush and greasewood, as preparation to plant more grain. It would be all raked up into a big pile, and after supper he would make a big bonfire and all the family would go to see it. On October 11, 1897 another little baby girl was born, Nettie May, with big blue eyes and red hair. I was so happy to have a baby sister, but mother was very sick. When the baby was about three weeks old she caught cold in her breast. It caked and was so hard and feverish. She was very, very sick. A dear, good friend, Kate McDonald, who was staying with us and taking care of mother said if she had some Procter and Gamble soap she would make a poultice and use it on mother's breast. It was a cold and stormy afternoon, but Tom got on his saddle pony and rode to Fort Bridger, five miles away, where there was a little grocery store, and got the bar of soap. The poultice was made and kept on mother's breast all night, and the next day it was much better. Soon all was well.
After the harvest and fall work was over, father and the older boys would go to the timbers and cut and haul logs for building. We had lived in the granary about two years by then. Father had a nice five-room log house built about five blocks west of Aunt Eliza's home. Mother soon had a lovely home with new rag carpets to cover the floors. The furniture had been stored in Porterville and it was hauled out by team and wagon. We were all so glad to get into our big new log house. It is still being lived in at Lyman, Wyoming in 1979. Soon after the move another fine baby boy, Byron, was born. He was a dear little baby. I remember him so well, but he was only eight months old when he died from spinal meningitis. He was the first dead person I had ever seen. They put nickels on his little eyes to keep them closed. We were all heartbroken to lose our dear baby.
Mother was very good in helping with the sick and went to help wherever she could, and I have heard her tell of many times where there was a death. How they would have to wrap the bodies in sheets wet with salt peter and keep them wet so they would not turn dark, until a casket could be made and funeral arrangements planned. There were no morticians out there in those days, but everyone was ready to help one another and share their joys and sorrows. Mother was a very beautiful and lovely woman, and being a bishop's wife and with a large family, was a very, very busy lady, but she was very efficient and particular in everything she did. She was always loving, patient and kind to her husband and all of her children. We were a happy and healthy family. We went through the hardships of a pioneer life but they didn't seem hardships to us. She would give us younger children a flour sack and send us out to gather all the wool off the sagebrush and wire fences or anywhere. When we got it gathered she would put it in tubs of warm water and homemade soap and let us get in with our bare feet and tromp it to get it clean. We thought it was so much fun. Then she would rinse it in another tub of warm water and put it out to dry. When thoroughly dry it would be brought in and the boys and all would pull it apart in little pieces and picked out all the sticks and grass, then piled in the corner ready for mother to card into batts about four inches wide and eight inches long. It would take mother many, many hours to card enough batts to make a big quilt. All the backs of the legs of worn-out coveralls and the best pieces of coats or any heavy pieces were saved and sewn together to make heavy camp quilts, tied with carpet warp. All the lighter materials from making dresses and shirts were sewn into pretty patterns for our bed quilts.
Then a quilting day was planned and neighbors invited to help quilt them. They were fun days, big dinners and a good visit for all. I still have mother's batt carders. The same was planned for when they had carpet rag bees, and all the neighbors would help each other. But, oh, what fun when mother would get enough big balls of rags woven into strips of carpet of about 36 inches wide, then sew each strip together with carpet warp to fit the room. When all was ready Father and the boys would bring in enough clean straw to cover the floor about six inches deep and then tack the carpet to the edge of the walls. Then how we younger children would have fun rolling over it and hear the straw crackle, but mother never liked house-cleaning time when the tacks all had to be pulled out and the carpet put on the clothes line and beat with brooms to get the dust and dirt out and the old straw that would be worn to a pulp and dust, but the new straw made it nice and warm again.
Mother always made all the homemade soap that was needed for a year in the summer. The lye was made by emptying wood ashes in a barrel with a tub underneath, then water poured over the ashes. What leaked into the tub was pure lye and very dangerous, if anyone got it on them. She would save every scrap of grease and trimming from the meat and all the cracklings after rendering out the lard. Then five-gallon cans would be set over fires out in the yard. The lye and grease boiled together until it was thick as honey then poured into tubs to get cool. Then it was cut into bars about four by four inches and laid out on boards to dry. It was really a hard day's work for mother and one of the boys father would leave to help her. My job was to tend the baby and small children and keep them away from where they were making the soap.
Another beautiful baby boy was born February 6, 1902, Parley Pratt. He was her last lovely baby.
Mother was president of the Primary and the baby was loved by all the children. Mother sent to Sears and Roebuck and got a baby buggy for Parley that looked like a little Ford automobile, and it was so cute. She usually had to stay awhile, so I would take the baby and Nettie home, and so many times Clyde would push the buggy home for me.
Mother and father were always very faithful and active in all of their church duties and callings. Father was Branch president then Bishop for 18 years in all. Mother worked with the Primary for many years, then she was set apart to be the ward Relief Society President. To do their Relief Society teaching they would have to take a team and buggy and be gone all day. The homes they had to visit were so far apart.
She made many trips to Salt Lake City with father for conferences and special bishopric meetings. She would buy her such pretty hats and beautiful dresses, when she would get home I thought she was the most beautiful mother in the world. Nettie and I would always get some pretty little gift, a cute little doll or little china cup, sometimes a ring or beads, but never without something to make us happy. She was also Relief Society Stake President for many years. When they had to travel with team and white-top buggy from Woodruff, Utah to Green River, Wyoming it would always be a three to four day trip. About six ladies would go each trip, driving their own team and taking care of them.
If ever a man was blessed for living polygamy, as it was suggested by our church leaders, Father should have a crown in heaven for he never did anything or bought for one wife until he could do the same for both wives and families. I remember when he started planning to build two lovely big frame homes, it was really quite a big project as most everything had to be hauled or shipped in by train, then hauled in ten miles from Carter to Lyman. Both Mother and Eliza decided on the floor plan they would like, then father built according to their plans and both houses were being built at the same time. Aunt Eliza moved into her lovely big new home in November because she was expecting a baby. Mother moved into our lovely big home just before Christmas. We were all so happy and had such a wonderful Christmas, with a Christmas tree that touched the nine-foot ceiling. It was just two blocks from the center of town. Father put a picket fence around the yard and soon we had a nice lawn, trees and flowers that would grow in that climate. I think Parley got some of his landscaping experience while helping mother. He was her helper in the gardening, watering, weeding and mowing to keep the lawns nice.
Mother was a wonderful cook and father being bishop, all the church authorities stayed at our home, also the drummers and traveling salesmen, ranchers that would come into town for business and supplies. It really was quite a "hotel" as there was no other place in town for visitors. One salesman gave her a silver thimble with a gold band around the top. I still have that thimble. She also took school teachers to board and room with us. Mary Wanlass stayed with us two or three years. She was a lovely, beautiful young lady and was the music teacher at the school. Mother took the money she paid and bought a nice second-hand organ, and Mary gave me music lessons. I soon got so I could play for Primary and Sunday School by practicing the songs for my music lessons, and I could play quite well.
Mother and father both loved to come to Salt Lake City to do temple ordinance work, and for many years soon after Christmas they would come and rent a small apartment as close to the temple as possible and stay for January, February and March, then be home in time for spring work.
In 1920 they decided to sell the big ranch, all the livestock, machinery and everything including the two lovely homes, which were the very nicest homes in the Bridger Valley, and move to Utah. Father bought two big rock homes in Bountiful, both on the same street and about two blocks apart, and as I remember, about 20 acres of good truck-gardening ground. Mother's home was bought from a Mr. Holbrook. Father and Parley did well with truck gardening for quite a number of years. After Parley got married and moved back to Wyoming, the work was too hard for father alone, so they decided to sell and move into Salt Lake City to be close to the temple. So Clyde and I bought their place and lived there two years, then sold it to Mr. Yeager, a builder. He soon divided the acreage into building lots and built nice homes on them. Mother's home was remodeled, a street cut clear to the top of the field, and now it is a very beautiful little part of Bountiful. Father and mother bought a nice little four- room home at 850 Windson Street and were very happy there. They did a great deal of temple work. Father was soon made an ordinance worker and worked in the Salt Lake Temple for many years.
Mother always had a nice garden and lots of lovely flowers. She always kept about ten little banty chickens so she could have fresh eggs. She was so good to help Nettie and me with our big families. She would come with her little canvas valise, overnight bag and stay a night or two and darn socks, mend underwear, and patch the knees of several pair of overalls for the boys. Our children all loved her so much. Each year she would go with us when we went to Little Cottonwood Canyon for a week's vacation. She would make dolls from root beer bottles and dress them in the socks that were too worn out to mend, then she would make little boats from the bark of trees for the boys to sail down the small streams. They were all fun-filled days, cooking over the campfire and sleeping on the ground. We would go swimming in a side stream that didn't run back into the river.
Mother and father would always spend Christmas Eve with us and our family. She had a good sense of humor, and we spent many happy hours and days together. I would always try and stop to see her for a few minutes if I was going to town, and she would want me to stop and have a piece of spice and raisin cake and a cup of peppermint tea with her. I often think of it, as I still like to drink peppermint tea. Mother was always such a good sport and liked to go places and do things. She would say, " I keep my coat hanging on the back of the door, and if anyone says come and go with us, I am always ready."
We had been to a baby shower for my cousin Wanda and had such a good time, we took her home and left her feeling good. At day-light the next morning father called us from a neighbor's home (they didn't have a telephone) and said she had been very sick all night and would we come over. We got in the car and went right over. When we saw how sick she was, Clyde called the doctor. He came and said it was a gall bladder attack. He gave her a shot to ease the pain and left, and in about twenty minutes mother passed away. I have always felt the medication the doctor gave her was too strong for her heart condition. It was such a sad and sorrowful shock to all her family, relatives and many, many friends, for everyone who knew mother loved and respected her. She died 5 May 935 at her little home on Windson Street. Funeral services were arranged for and a very lovely service was held at the Bountiful tabernacle with many, many friends coming from Lyman and the Bridger Valley for the service. She was laid to rest at the Bountiful Memorial Cemetery on Oak Street. Father and Aunt Eliza, all three are laid side by side.
Wallace Calvin Brough never married.
History of Wallace Calvin Brough (1891-1946)
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally written by Laura Adeline Brough Bradshaw in 1979HISTORY:
Wallace Calvin Brough, the fourth son of Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry, was born September 27, 1891, at Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. He was blessed by William Deardon on November 22, 1891. He spent his early childhood days as most little boys do, playing, doing chores, carrying water from the canal.
He moved to Lyman, Wyoming with our family when he was about seven years old. He worked with his father and brothers clearing sagebrush and wood off the homestead, pond, then at night all the family would go out and have a big bonfire. He started school at the old log Woolsey school house. We had to walk about two miles. He was excellent in arithmetic and his other subjects but language and grammar, as we called it, and I was poor in arithmetic and hated doing it, so he would do my arithmetic for me, and as I liked language, I would do all the diagramming of sentences for him. He had a very happy, pleasant personality and got along fine with all of his friends. He learned to play the guitar very well and played in a string band with other friends for programs and parades, and often played in a string band with other musicians with violin, piano and his guitar for the dances at Lyman, Wyoming.
When he was about 15 years old, he started working with William Phillips in a blacksmith shop and did so well he was soon a partner in the business, but he took time each winter to go to the BYU college at Logan, Utah. He loved horses and had a beautiful riding pony that was a pretty good race horse. He also had a team of mules named Sal and Jane that were used for much of the hard work on the farm. I remember he had the mules on the sleigh the night he took mother and Clyde and I to the train station at Carter, Wyoming, to come to Salt Lake to be married in the temple.
He also carried the U.S. Mail from the train station at Carter, Wyoming to Lyman on horseback for several years. He was active in church and social work until he enlisted in the U. S. Army, on June 1, 1918. I have a certificate of an honorable discharge from the United States Army that gives me all of this information. Wallace Calvin Brough enlisted at Laramie, Wyoming June 1, 1918 and was sent to Camp Knox, Kentucky and assigned to duty as a horse show specialist and in the cavalry. His release states: Given for faithful and honest service and is hereby honorably released from the United States Army April 2, 1919. His health is very good and of excellent character.
After returning home, the girl who was his sweetheart and had promised to wait for him had married another boy. So he didn't stay home very long. He went to Casper, Wyoming and was foreman of a big ranch there for several years. Then he acquired a small ranch and some cattle for himself at Alcoa, Wyoming not far from Casper and lived there alone, his nearest neighbor being about three miles away. He was a friend to everyone who knew him.
Each year before Christmas he would get his horse and go to the mountains and cut a beautiful Christmas tree and take it to a friend. He also learned to be a taxidermist and was very good. He tanned many hides and many deer heads and other animal heads were beautifully mounted by him. He was found dead in his lonely cabin by his closest neighbor, of a heart attack. The neighbor called me and told us of his death December 16, 1966. We met his brother Jesse at Lyman and drove all night to Alcoa, made arrangements at Casper to have his body shipped to Salt Lake City, Utah where a beautiful funeral was held in the garden room of the Desert Mortuary. It was like being in Paradise, with ferns, flowers and little singing canaries that sang along with the music. He was buried in the beautiful cemetery on our lot at Bountiful. The family all helped to put a lovely headstone at his grave.
All the years he was away he would come home once a year for a visit with the family and loved ones, usually at Thanksgiving, and we were happy to see him and had so much fun. My children were small and they remember him taking them to the store and buying them candy, gum and anything else they wanted. Eleene says she still has a little Indian doll he gave her.
Louis Brough Dorny, Commander, US Navy, Retired, 2015:
Louis Brough Dorny is a retired Commander in the United States Navy. His Brough ancestry-through his mother's lineage-goes back hundreds of years in Staffordshire, England.
Commander Dorny was born in 1941 in Los Angeles, California. In the 1960's he served an LDS mission in Germany, and later earned academic degrees in German Language and Literature, History, Linguistics, and later Public Administration.
He served thirty years in the United States Navy, driving ships in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. He also studied Russian at Monterey and specialized in cryptology, submarine reconnaissance, and communications intercept and analysis against the Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet during the Cold War. As an intelligence officer he served as the assistant naval attaché to the United States Embassy in Germany, then as a civilian with the State Department's Mission to Berlin as Deputy Director Berlin Document Center. As such he was in Germany both as the Berlin Wall went up in 1961 and as it came down in 1990.
He and his former wife are the parents of seven children. He now lives and works in Seattle, Washington, and is a very active father and grandfather and Latter-day Saint. As a researcher and writer he remains fluent in German and also conducts research on his Dorny and Brough ancestors in English, Russian, Dutch and Polish languages.
Commander Dorny has written extensively and published materials on the United States Navy and Dutch Navy use of the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat in the Pacific during World War II, and thus can speak directly to Davis Aitkens Brough's experiences in 1942.Commander Louis "Lou" Brough Dorney, USNR, retired, was buried on 19 November 2021 at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, King Co., Washington state, USA.
Obituary of Walter Brough Dorny II (https://www.bunkerfuneral.com/obituaries/w-brough-dorny-ii/)
W. Brough Dorny II
08/29/1944 - 09/06/2020W. Brough Dorny II, our beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend completed his earthly journey on September 6, 2020. Supported by family who loved him and with his wife by his side, he peacefully returned to his Father in Heaven.
Brough was born to Veda Mima Brough and Walter Otto Dorny in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1944. He spent his childhood years learning, growing, and playing with his siblings Louis Dorny & Marsha Dorny Vannah.
After completing a 2 year mission for his church, Brough met and married the love of his life, Vonda Ray, while attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Brough was active in the ROTC while at BYU and was commissioned an officer in the United States Army at the time of his graduation. He was then posted to active duty during the Vietnam War and graduated from the Command and General Staff College as well as completed his MBA from Pepperdine University during his time of service. Brough was a firm believer in freedom and fiercely loved his country.
After leaving active duty, Brough worked to build a business within the community. He put his education and friendly personality to work and served his clients tirelessly as a State Farm Insurance Agent in Mesa. Brough was fair, friendly and loved by many. He was always keen to help those in need and easily shared his testimony of the Gospel and love for his Savior with everyone he met.
As an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served in many callings. He loved his time serving the Lord and spent hours during his retirement years working both in the Mesa & Gilbert Temples as an ordinance worker.
Brough loved family. Many hours were spent working on various projects with his wife and children at home as well as playing at the lake and in the mountains. He loved to laugh, gave great advice, and knew how to fix pretty much everything.
He is survived by his wife Vonda, children Jared Dorny (Janet), Valinda Hatch (Todd), Raylynn Dorny, Aaron Dorny (Lisa), Marissa Farnsworth (Benjamin), 17 grand children, and 1 great-grandchild.
Brough loved the temple and believed in eternal families – in lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the General Temple Fund of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A family only service will be at 10am, Saturday, September 19 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building that the family attends. The brief funeral service will be streamed online.
Thomas Brough states in his journal that Samuel Richard Brough was born at "1 A.M. on the 20th of August 1857 at Rocky Branch near Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois."
Material for most of this Family Group Record of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter comes from the 1980 RBFO book: "The Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947, His History, Ancestors and Descendents."
History of Samuel Richard Brough
Quoted and edited from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestry & Descendants".
On August 20, 1857 Samuel Richard Brough, the third son and fourth child of Thomas Brough and Jane Patterson, was born in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. His father was engaged in farming, and it was on this farm that Samuel and his three younger sisters were born. In June 1864 Samuel's father and mother prepared for their long-awaited crossing of the "Great American Plains" to Utah. This was to be the final leg of the journey that began back in England in 1856 when this young family left to join the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in far-away Utah.
With a yoke of oxen to pull their wagon and one milk cow to provide milk for their family, this young family of eight started out with other families to spend the next three and one-half months crossing the plains to Utah. During all of this time they were exposed to Indians, buffalo and other hazards common to the wilds of America in those early days. They finally arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah on September 18, 1864. About half-way across the plains one of the oxen died so the milk cow, together with one of their neighbor's cows, was yoked up in place of the oxen and the one remaining ox was placed in lead of the cows, and the journey was completed successfully in this manner.
It was so late in the year that there wasn't enough time for them to build a cabin, so a room was dug in the side of a hill (12 feet by 14 feet) and covered with brush and dirt. It was in this room where Samuel, his father and mother, four sisters and one brother spent their first winter in Utah. It was extremely cold, with snow sometimes reaching a depth of four feet.
The following spring, Samuel's father, who had been a brick mason in England, made the brick and built a two-room brick home for his family and then started to farm some of the land that he was able to obtain. For the next seven years Samuel spent his time working on the farm and helping in his father's brickyard. He enjoyed trapping and was able to catch many red fox, mink and other fur-bearing animals during the winter months.
For two years, after Samuel turned 14, he spent working on the freight road using oxen to move his loads. When he turned 16 he went to Wyoming to work on a flume, twenty-eight miles long, which brought timber from the mountains down into the valley to make lumber, railroad ties and charcoal. He spent his 18th year working as a carpenter for the Utah and Northern Railroad in Idaho.
Young Samuel Richard Brough returned to Porterville that next year and worked in a lumber mill hauling timber from the mountains for the Union Pacific Railroad. During his 21st year he worked for his father in his brickyard getting half of the brick that he made for his own use. He used this brick to build a home for himself. Late in October of his 22nd year, he went to Colorado and New Mexico to help build the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
In the spring of 1881 he returned home to Porterville, and on June 2, 1881, he married Phoebe Adeline Cherry in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah. They then returned to Porterville to the home that Samuel had built to start their married life together. Here Samuel was able to buy some farm land and also one-half interest in a lumber and shingle mill. By hiring some help he was successful in operating his farm and mill. During the winter season he hauled timber out of the mountains to his saw mill.
During the next four and one-half years he continued in this line of work and started to raise a family. Three sons were born during this period of time. Thomas James Brough was born on February 19, 1882, Jesse Samuel Brough was born on February 12, 1884, and Ernest LeRoy Brough was born on December 12, 1885.
The year 1886 was to be a memorable year in the life of Samuel Richard Brough, for on October 1, 1886 he received a call from President John Taylor to leave for a mission to Great Britain. He was to leave on October 26, 1886. Just five days before he boarded the steamship Alaska for England, he took Ann Eliza Carter to the Logan Temple and married her for time and all eternity to live in plural marriage with his first wife, Phoebe Adeline Cherry. In order to cover his mission expenses, he had to sell half of his farm and some cattle, leaving his mill property to be rented or sold. Ann Eliza Carter returned to her family to await his return from his mission.
Elder Samuel Richard Brough left for Great Britain on October 26, 1886, going by way of New York and on the Steamship Alaska, arriving in Liverpool, England on November 10, 1886. He was sent immediately to South Wales where he served as a traveling elder for almost one and one-half years. Many were the faith-promoting experiences that he had with the Welsh people.
After serving as a traveling elder he was called to preside over the Welsh Mission. After serving in this capacity for almost one year he was called to preside over the Irish Mission until June 17, 1890, and then he was called to preside over the Scottish Mission. Each call was for a particular purpose and he witnessed the hand of the Lord in and during each call. On September 29, 1890, he received an honorable release. However, before returning to the United States, Samuel traveled to Longton, Staffordshire, and stayed for seventeen days (November 8-24, 1890) with his aunt, Mary Ann Brough and her husband Robert Evans, in their home at "58 Lord Street, Woodhouse N Longton". While staying in Longton, Samuel collected genealogical and historical information on his Brough ancestry. He also visited the Parish Churches in Longton, Trentham, Dresdon and Stoke-on-Trent, and gathered many family names (of deceased relatives) for eventual LDS temple work. He returned to Utah in December 1890. The following hand-written account is taken from Samuel's missionary journal and details what he did during the days he stayed with Mary Ann Brough and Robert Evans in Longton, England:
Saturday, November 8, 1890: Today I started to Longton [Staffordshire, England] at 12 Noon. Arrived ok about 3 PM. I met some of my relatives. I was kindly received by all. I went to Aunt Mary Ann [Mary Ann Brough Evans], my father's sister and abode with her and [her] family. I spent a pleasant evening.
Sunday, November 9, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and go [went] to chapel with Uncle Robert Evans and from there to Aunt Martha's [Martha Lowe Paterson] residence (she being the widow of Uncle Robert [Watson] Paterson my mother's brother). She was delighted to see me. I ate dinner with her and had a chat for several hours during which time she informed me it was just 39 years to-day since she and Robert [Watson Paterson] were married and narrated the incident quiet fully which was interesting to me. At 6:30 she and I went to chapel and spent quite an interesting evening. I returned to Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans].
Monday, November 10, 1890: Today I attended to some correspondence and then visited Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] (Widow), Uncle Richard Brough's wife, and ate dinner and was very kindly received. I then started in search of records from which to obtain the genealogy of my Father's house. I first went to the Registrar of Longton District but his records only dated back to 1837 which date was too recent. I then went to the minister of St. John's church and arranged with him to search his records from 1764 (the oldest he had) to 1837 for ten shillings. I then went back in town and purchased some note books and prepared for genealogical search in the morrow. I returned to Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans, at] 58 Lord Street Woodhouse North Longton and brought up [to date] my journal and wrote a letter to my mother.
Tuesday, November 11, 1890: Today I searched the baptismal records from 1764 to 1837 inclusive and secured over 60 names of Brough. In the evening I recorded some in my family register and wrote two letters to America.
Wednesday, November 12, 1890: Today I went to Stoke to try and arrange with the parish registrar to search the records of the parish. I found it would cost me about four shillings [?] for each name and concluded to search through the church records as they are much cheaper. I went to [the] Trentham church minister and arranged to search the records of that church next Friday 14th inst[ant]. I returned to Longton and in the evening visited some of my relatives in company with Cousin Thomas Evans [the son of Robert Evans and Mary Ann Brough].
Thursday, November 13, 1990: Today I attended to considerable correspondence and in the evening went to the landmark where my Grandfather (Richard Brough) and some of his uncles made brick about 60 years ago. I gathered a few leaves to place in my scrap book as a Token of Remembrance of the noted place. I then went to Rev. W. B. Smith and arranged with him to search the baptismal records of St. John's church from 1837 up to the present. I expect to commence my search next Monday, November 17th 1890.
Friday, November 14, 1890: today I walked to Trentham 3½ miles to search the records of the Trentham church and on my arrival learned the minister was called away on business. I then walked back to Longton and searched the records in St. John's church from 1839 to 1890 and obtained some names. The minister of this church then kindly gave me a very favorable recommend to the minister of St. James church in this city. I went to 58, attended to some correspondence and retired.
Saturday, November 15, 1890: Today I went to St. James church and presented my recommend to the minister and at once got the privilege to search the records from 1834 to date--all they had. I obtained a good few names without the least charge and on my departure I thanked the minister most kindly and gave him two shillings and six pence and also presented him with a copy of the Voice of Warning of which he accepted with thanks and I left him feeling first class. I returned to 58 and replied to some correspondence and had a chat with Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] and retired.
Sunday, November 16, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and met in chapel with some of the followers of Smeedenbury. I observed their manner of worship... I spent some time with Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and her folks in the afternoon and in the evening met with some who termed themselves a Christian Society....
Monday, November 17, 1890: Today I called on Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and took dinner with her and then visited cousin Lucy [Lucy Smith-the daughter of Joseph Hinton Smith and Adry Brough] and had a nice chat with her and family. Then to Thomas Bott (Aunt Besse's brother) [and the brother of Elizabeth Bott--who married Samuel Brough, and the son of Benjamin Bott and Elizabeth Abbotts] and gave him some tracts and sold him a Voice of Warning. I had a lengthy chat on the Gospel.
Tuesday, November 18, 1890: Today I presented Uncle Robert [Evans] and Aunt Mary Ann [Brough] Evans with a most beautiful album written on the fly leaf Compliments of nephew Samuel Richard Brough and then attended to considerable correspondence and in the evening spent a little time in town [and] went to Dresden in search of genealogies. I met with some encouragement. I was accompanied by John Kelsal [John Kelsall--the husband of Ann Myatt (Brough)].
Wednesday, November 19, 1990: Today I sought after genealogy and in the evening presented Cousin Ann Kelsal [Ann Myatt (Brough) Kelsall, who was] (married) with a beautiful album written in the fly leaf Compliments of cousin Samuel Richard Brough to cousin Ann Kelsal Nov 19th 1890. I then went to Aunt Martha Paterson [Martha Lowe Paterson and] I made a similar present with the same inscription on the fly leaf except the name. Both were accepted with heartfelt thanks. I spent some time with Aunt Martha [Lowe Paterson] and returned to 58.
Thursday, November 20, 1890: I rise [arose] in good time and walked to Trentham four miles and searched the records of the same back to 1525 being ably assisted by Rev. E. B. Pigott who I found exceeding kind and would not charge me anything whatever for his service. I thanked him very kindly and on leaving presented him one copy each of the Book of Mormon and Voice of Warning. He accepted them with thanks and spoke especially of the Book of Mormon and said he would place it in his library and take good care of it. I gathered 101 names and left rejoicing and considerably satisfied.
Friday, November 21, 1890: Today I spent a good portion of the time in arranging and recording the genealogy gathered in this part, and in the evening went to the theatre with four of my second cousins (ladies) and we had a splendid time [and] the play was titled The Still Alarm. I called on Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and gave her one shilling worth of ale. She accepted it with many thanks. She is over three score years old and receives much comfort from her pipe.
Saturday, November 22, 1890: Today I finished my labors in recording and arranging the genealogy I have gathered on my Father's house and have labored faithful and traveled a great deal from place to place and person to person. I have gathered near 200 names and feel quite pleased with my labors. My mind is now at rest and I feel willing to return home. In the evening I visited some of the Bott's, Aunt Besse's [Elizabeth Brough-who married Samuel Brough] relatives. Also called on a photographer and purchased a portrait of Longton Park and St. Johns Church where my Grandmother Brough was buried and sold him [the photographer] a Book of Mormon and gave him some tracts and left him feeling quiet satisfied with the purchase and our conversation. I returned to 58 and Uncle Robert Evans made me a present of a nice pair of winter gloves.
Sunday, November 23, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and met with Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and relatives at her respective residence and too dinner and had a good chat about matters generally. Cousin Ann [Ann Myatt (Brough) Kelsall] gave me a nice China Mustache Cup and Saucer and 6 China Tea Cups and Saucers. Also sent a rare beautiful cup and saucer to my mother and her daughter gave me a very pretty China Cup and Saucer for my wife. I accepted all with kindness and many thanks. I bid them farewell and left them in profound friendship. I called on Cousin Lucy [Lucy Smith-the daughter of Joseph Hinton Smith and Adry Brough] and family [and] had a pleasant visit and bid them adieu. Then called on Aunt Martha Paterson and had a friendly chat and she gave me a pair of winter gloves for each of my little boys and a pair for my mother. Also sent a present and token of respect to my wife and sisters Emily and Alice. A young man who was lodging with Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] gave me a most beautiful China Mustache Cup and saucer elaborately decorated with gold and flowers and written on it in gold letters (A present to Samuel Richard Brough by John Lester). I gave him a Book of Mormon and Voice of Warning and accepted all with grateful heart and bid them farewell. I went to the place the Latter-day Saints met for worship 55 years ago when my Father and Mother were here. I returned to 58 [and] had a chat with Uncle [Robert Evans] and Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] about the folks and affairs at home and retired.
Monday, November 24, 1890: I received a pair of socks for myself and a nice apron for my wife as a present from Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans] and packed up some of my presents and sent to Liverpool by R.R [railroad] and bid the folks farewell and many thanks for all kindness. I started for Nottingham by Rail Road and arrived about 2 PM and went to the Nottingham Cemetery and visited Jesse Yelton Cherry's grave (my wife's uncle) [who was born in 1840 in Illinois and died in 1865 in Nottingham]. He died while here on a mission preaching the Gospel in May 20th 1865 aged 25 years. I spent a pleasant evening with the Brethren here and had a chat about the folks and affairs at home.
Tuesday, November 25, 1890: Today I wrote a letter to James J. Cherry my Father-in-law and Brother to the above deceased. I took [a] train for Swansea, South Wales, at 11:50….
On December 6, 1890, Samuel Richard Brough left England and arrived in Porterville, Utah on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1890, having been away from home and his family just over four years and two months.
In the spring of 1891 he hired out to Henry Florence and Sons Company and ran their sawmill at Hilliard, Wyoming. During the winter of that year he made railroad ties in Hardscrabble Canyon and sold them to the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
In the spring of 1892, he took his wife Ann Eliza Carter and went to Fort Bridger Valley to use his homestead rights and he settled on 160 acres in what is now known as Lyman, Wyoming. During the summer he chopped cedar posts and hewed house logs in the mountains and sold them to settlers in the valley. During the fall he built a log house 16' by 24' on his homestead. He then took his wife back to Salt Lake City where his first plural child, Horace, was born on November 16, 1892.
In the spring of 1893 he took his wife Ann Eliza Carter and son Horace and returned to his homestead in Wyoming. At that time he was set apart by President Cluff of the Summet Stake as Presiding Elder of the scattered saints in that area. He was able to clear some eight acres with a grubbing hoe and in the fall, seeded them into winter wheat thus starting his first crop on his homestead. In November he located his wife and son in Fort Bridger for the winter and returned to his family in Porterville and worked in the timber during the winter.
In the spring of 1894 he returned to his homestead with a team and farm seeds for the season and found his wife and son in good health. He proceeded to clear more land and seeded for a larger crop on his homestead. In June his second son of his plural marriage, Franklin Reed, was born. He raised a crop of wheat, oats, rye and potatoes. In the fall he again placed his wife Ann Eliza Carter and two sons in a good home in Fort Bridger for the winter and returned to his family in Porterville, Utah. On November 18, 1894, his first daughter, Laura Adeline, was born to his first wife Phoebe Adeline Cherry. During the winter he worked in the timber in Hardscrabble Canyon.
For the next two years he followed this plan, returning to his homestead in the spring and clearing more land and planting and harvesting more crops and helping the saints in that area, and then returning to Porterville during the winter, working in the timber and spending some time in the temple working on the names that he had gathered while on his mission.
In the spring of 1898 he built a house on his homestead for his first wife and family, and for the first time he had all of his family together. On June 8, 1898, he was ordained the bishop of the Owen Ward (now renamed the Lyman Ward) by Apostle John Henry Smith, and he served in this position until released on February 22, 1916. During all of this time he held many positions of leadership in that community, even serving on the Stake Board of Education for the Woodruff Stake while he was still bishop. By the early 1900's, Samuel had acquired 560 acres of land in and around Lyman, Wyoming. Also, during his stay in Wyoming, Samuel gave some of his properties to the town of Lyman, Wyoming, with the restriction that "liquors" were never to be made, sold or distributed from such properties.
Between 1917 and 1920, his properties in Wyoming were sold and those who were still living at home moved to Bountiful, Utah where they engaged in truck farming. This also enabled Samuel Richard Brough and his wife to do more work in the temple for their kindred dead. On April 18, 1921 he was called to be a temple worker in the Salt Lake Temple which was to last for many years, even until 1946. Also, from 1918 to 1938, Samuel served as the first president of the Brough Family Organization--which today is one of the oldest and largest ancestral family organization and surname associations in the world.
Samuel Richard Brough was really a remarkable man. One of the outstanding characteristics of this great pioneer was that throughout the many years that he served as a temple worker, even up to the last few years of his life, he always managed to spend the summers working and saving so that he could continue to spend the majority of his time during the remainder of the year working in the temple and fulfilling his calling as a temple worker.
Samuel Richard Brough raised an exceptional family. Many of his sons became LDS bishops, high councilmen and stake presidents in their own areas. One son was ordained a patriarch. His girls were also very active and served the Lord as they had been taught by their mothers. On May 8, 1947, he passed away, having spent some 89 years, 8 months and 18 days on this earth. He raised 15 of his children to manhood and womanhood, having lost two sons in their infancy. He sent five of his children on full-time missions besides serving more than four years of his life on a mission in England. He left one of the greatest heritages for his posterity, and his two wonderful companions added their greatness to his. How blessed we are to be able to call them our ancestors, for they left us a heritage that cannot be equaled today.
History of Ann Eliza Carter
Quoted and edited from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestry & Descendants".
Written by Samuel Richard Brough.HISTORY:
Ann Eliza Carter was born February 20, 1866 in Round Valley, Morgan County, Utah, to Samuel Carter and Sarah Davis Carter who taught her the gospel from infancy. She was a polygamist child and fully converted to that order of marriage. She was always ready to testify that she knew that it was instituted of God, and was taught and practiced by all His prophets in all the ages of the world.
She was always very spiritual minded all of her life, and in her teens was active in Sunday School and all of her church duties and was modest and lady-like in all her acts in company with few or many. As she matured in life she took great interest in church affairs and was active in the M.I.A. and a sincere student of the gospel. She was a strict observer of the laws and the requirements and manifested honesty and sincerity in the worship of the Lord. She always honored and respected her parents and would not associate with rude or light-minded company. She would not take part in plays or games that were not becoming to a lady. When she arrived in womanhood, all who knew her gave her credit of being a good faithful Latter-day Saint.
I was a little older than she, and I knew her from her childhood to womanhood. At this time the L.D.S. Church was preaching and practicing plural marriage, commonly called polygamy. I was fully converted to this principal and I decided I would obey it in my younger days. That I could care for and raise a family was my earnest desire. I talked the matter over with my wife, Adeline, and we agreed to try and live it, and decided that Eliza Carter was a good, clean and faithful girl, and if she was willing to join us, we would prepare to embrace that order of marriage as soon as convenient. I now found that the responsibility was all upon me. I tried to raise enough courage to call on Eliza, and in a reasonable time I did so. She treated me very kindly, and during our conversation I told her the purpose and object of my visit and suggested that she give it serious thought, and that I would call and see her next week and get her decision on the matter.
I called the next week as per agreement, and to my joy and happiness she told me she favored the proposition. As I have already stated, she was a polygamist child and converted to this principle. We had a friendly visit and talked over the matters in general and agreed to marry, if all were willing. I told her of my mission call, and I would soon have to start on it.
She stated that her soul's desire was to marry a good, faithful husband and fill out her creation and serve the Lord, and was willing to make any sacrifice to accomplish her desire. I informed my wife, Adeline, of our conversation and suggested that she go with me and be present when I asked Eliza's parents for their consent for Eliza and I to get married. She consented to go and later on we called at Eliza's home and talked the matter over together with her parents and all were agreeable.
On October 20, 1886, we went to the Logan Temple and were married in the House of the Lord [on October 21, 1886] and by His authority for time and all eternity. I did not do anything without the knowledge and consent of my wife Adeline. I was not deceptive in any way to her or Eliza, or to Eliza's parents. After our marriage she went to live and work with her parents until my return from my mission.
On October 6, 1886, I received a call from President John Taylor, President of The Church of Jesus Christ [of Latter-day Saints] to go on a mission to preach the gospel [of Jesus Christ] to the world. I was to leave for the British Mission on October 26, and so I prepared to leave on this date. On the way home from the Logan Temple, Brother Durrant, a counselor to the bishop of our ward, and a good friend boarded the train at Echo and told me an officer of the law was waiting at the Morgan station to arrest me for entering plural marriage. He had taken a risk of his own safety in doing this, as he was disguised as a tramp. He had left a horse tied up in the canyon and suggested that I take it and go on to Salt Lake City and go on my mission. I decided to do as he advised and jumped off the moving train, rode the horse to Salt Lake City and reported for my mission. I never saw Eliza again for over four years and could only write to her as Miss Carter in all of that time.
I spent over four years serving the Lord and preaching the gospel to the world and finally returned to my family on December 31, 1890. All this time my wife Eliza kept clean from sin and reproach and had been true as steel to me and received me with the greatest love and friendship a woman could possible manifest. Many times during my absence Eliza had spent the night alone on the oak-covered hill back of her home in fear of being held in evidence against me for entering the principle of plural marriage. She never knew when an officer would come, day or night, and so she had to be constantly on her guard.
One time a Patriarch came to their home, as was the custom of that time, to give a blessing to each member of the family. Eliza's father was scribe, and as he gave Eliza her blessing, he said "thou was promised to one before thou left the Heavens and thou hast already given him your hand." He stopped, thinking that he had made a mistake, having no idea she was not a single member of the family, but her father said, "Go on, you are alright." This was a great comfort to both Eliza and I and also her parents that we had done as the Lord wanted when we entered this marriage principle.
It now became my duty to prepare a home for her. I had spent all my means on my long and expensive mission. I had a home for my wife Adeline and her three children in Morgan County, Utah.
Having my homestead right as a native-born American citizen, and learning of some government land being recently opened in Bridger Valley, Wyoming for homestead entry, I went there at once and took up a homestead of 160 acres of good farm land. It was in a wild condition and in a frontier country, but Eliza agreed to go with me and together we would build our home and begin our family life.
I was young and able to work twelve hours a day in clearing greasewood and sagebrush off my homestead and preparing it for cultivating. The Lord blessed our labors, and soon we built us a good home where happiness and true love prevailed.
In due time the Lord blessed us with a fine son (Horace) perfect and healthy who brought with him a great boon of happiness. Eliza was overjoyed and said she could cry glory to God on High. I have now become a mother in Israel, the great blessing for which I have made sacrifices and labored for four years.
We lived in this country for twenty-eight years, and during this time the Lord blessed us with six sons and three daughters, all perfect and healthy, for which we were most thankful. We reared them in a good, clean farm home free from the evils and vices of city life. They had good school[ing], gospel and church teachings and privileges, and good, clean social life. One boy (Golden) died in infancy. The other eight children lived to maturity, and we ever praised their clean, happy farm life of their younger days. After much thought and consideration, we sold our home and property there and moved to Bountiful, Utah, where we bought a home and engaged in truck gardening.
A few years after changing our home and climate, Eliza had several spells of severe sickness. She was faithful and active in the church and held several positions. All through her life she taught and encouraged her children to be faithful in all gospel duties.
Her children were her joy all her married life, and very frequently would speak of their good traits of character and say, "God has blessed me with good, clean children and given them faith in the gospel. They have been active in His service all their lives. Not one has brought shame upon my name, or even caused me to regret I have given them birth. They all have a name and standing in the church. My sons have all received the Holy Priesthood and are honest men of faith and integrity. My daughters are women of renown, clean, virtuous and loving mothers. All my family [is] a blessing to me and I thank God for them and the conviction I have of their association in the future."
She finally had an attack of pneumonia to which she succumbed and left us on December 13, 1932. She was laid away in the Bountiful Cemetery by a host of friends and loved ones with the greatest love and respect.
I wish to say one more word to her children. You should ever cultivate a feeling of gratitude to God that you have been permitted to come to this mortal life, through the lineage of so noble and faithful a woman as your mother proved to be. She planted the love of the gospel in your hearts before she gave you birth. She taught you its laws and principles by precept and example from your infancy to the day of her death and was laid in the tomb with the hope of a glorious resurrection. She was a devoted mother and a true and faithful wife. She left a vacant place in my heart that no woman in this world can fill. God bless her memory.
Signed: Samuel R. Brough.
Marriage Notes for Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter-54
The birth and marriage dates of Ann Eliza Carter come from the Logan Polygamist Sealing Record available from the Special Services division of the LDS Temple Department in Salt Lake City, Utah, which information was provided by officials of the LDS Temple Department to R. Clayton Brough on July 9, 2005.
Thomas Brough was born in Lane End, Staffordshire, England, on 22 October 1832. This location is often referred to as "Lane End, Longton". For example: "Lane End, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Confusion often arises over the location and names of Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the Borough of Longton in 1865. Longton was adjacent to Longton Hall and encompassed the Longton Hall Colliery and Brickworks. Even in 1900 the area was mainly fields. Lane End was centered on the area around Market Street and the bottom part of Anchor Road and contained the Markets, Churches and main potworks." (Source: http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/009.htm)
The birth of Thomas Brough has been listed several different ways: 1) Thomas Brough's live LDS Endowment record (recorded by clerk Joseph F. Smith, FHL Special Collections Film # 183405, pages 90-91) took place on 2 February 1867 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah, and stated that he was born on 22 October 1833 in Longton, Staffordshire, England, and that he was baptized into the LDS Church on 7 January 1848 as the son of Richard [Brough]and Mary "Hollison"; 2) For decades various family sources have stated that Thomas Brough was born on 22 October 1832 in Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire, England; and 3) Thomas Brough's gravestone in the Porterville Cemetery in Morgan, Utah, has engraved (as of 2005) that he was born on 22 October 1831. At the present time (April 2009), RBFO genealogists, Clayton and John Brough, have accepted the birth date of Thomas Brough as being 22 October 1832, because this date preceeds Thomas's recorded christening date (in the Church of England) of 11 November 1832 at St. John, Lane End, Longton (FHL film # 1471087, p.103), and because Thomas's parents christened their other children within two months of their birth. Unfortunately, a number of Thomas Brough's descendants keep re-doing his LDS Temple work (which as of April 2009 has been done over 140 times) even though Thomas Brough was an LDS Bishop and the IGI contains numerous listings for Thomas's different birth-years (of 1831, 1832 and 1833). Needless to say, descendants of Thomas Brough do not need to spend their time re-doing Thomas Brough's LDS ordinance work based on their findings of his different birth-year listings. If LDS members of the RBFO wish to do LDS ordinance work for their deceased ancestors, they should first check the need and validity of doing so with the RBFO LDS Temple Coordinator-- via email at: officer@broughfamily.org.
The christening of Thomas Brough is listed in the parish register of St. John, Longton, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 1471087, Item #1), which states that he was christened on 11 November 1832 as the son of Richard and Mary Brough of Lane End, and that Richard Brough was a "Brickmaker".
According to research done in the 1970's by RBFO Genealogists, Thomas Brough was baptized into the LDS Church on 7 January 1848 by Elder Wesley Meigh of the LDS Longton Branch, Staffordshire, England.
In the 1841 Census, (taken on 6 June 1941), Thomas Brough was about 9 years old (born about 1832), born in Staffordshire, and working as a "App. Potter", while residing with his parents, Richard and Mary Brough, at: 28 Sutherland Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
In the 1851 Census (taken on 30 March 1851), Thomas Brough was about 18 years old (born about 1833), born in Trentham, Staffordshire, unmarried and working as a "Coal Miner", while residing with his parents, Richard and Mary Brough, at: 109 Stone Road, Blurton, Trentham, Staffordshire.
The 1851 marriage certificate of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" was obtained from the GRO in England in March 2012 by the Brough Family Organization, and stated that they were married by Banns on 9 November 1851 in St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; that they were "Both [of] Fenton"; that Thomas Brough was of "full age" and a Bachelor and Collier, and that his father was Richard Brough, a Brickmaker; and that Jane Pattison was of "full age" and a Spinster, and that her father was George Pattison, an Engineer. The marriage was witnessed by Robert Pattison and Martha Lucy Lowe. Also, the marriage of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" is listed in the online FreeBMD and Staffordshire BMD.
Immigration Record: Thomas Brough (with a listed age of 22) and his wife, Jane (age 21), and their two children: Jane (age 2) and William George (an Infant), left Liverpool, England, on 25 May 1856 aboard the ship "Horizon" and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Massachussettes, arriving in Boston on 30 June 1856. Prior to leaving England, Thomas Brough listed his former British address as: "20 Pitt Street, Burslem, Staffordshire". (See FHL Film # 25691, page 179.)
1860 USA Census (dated 11 July 1860) for Upper Alton, Madison, Illinois, USA (FHL Film 0803208, p.233-236):
Thomas Bouff(?) Brough, 28, Male, Coal Miner, Estate: $50, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be England]
Jane, 29, Female, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be Scotland]
Jane, 7, Female, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be England]
John(?) [should be William], 5, Male, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be England)
Samuel, 3, Male, birthplace: Illinois
Addie E, 1, Female, birthplace: IllinoisBurial Information: Porterville cemetery grave location: Plot V/9.
Extensive research by the Brough Family Organization:
https://sites.google.com/view/brough-family-organization/england-staffordshire/thomas-brough.
Find A Grave Memorial# 12809119.History of Thomas Brough
Edited by R. Clayton Brough, John M. Brough and Marie B. Nielson, July 2005. Edited from material that originally appeared in the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors and Descendants", pp.11-13.
Thomas Brough was born on 22 October 1832 to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston in Longton, Lane End, Staffordshire, England. He was christened on 11 November 1832 at St. John Parish Church (of England) in Lane End, Longton. In 1840, Thomas Brough's father, Richard Brough, had joined the L.D.S. Church, and about nine years later Thomas also joined the L.D.S. Church, being baptized on 7 January 1849 by Elder Wesley Meigh of the L.D.S. Longton Branch.
As a young man, Thomas worked in the coal mines around Longton and practiced the trades of masonry and carpentry. In fact, British Census records state that Thomas was working as a "App. Potter" when he was only "9" years old and as a "Coal Miner" when he was "18" years of age.
On 9 November 1851, Thomas Brough married Jean (Jane) Paterson (who was born on 12 April 1830 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland) at St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. At the time of their marriage Jane was not a member of the L.D.S. Church, but she later joined the L.D.S. Church in January 1855. During the first four years of their marriage, Jane gave birth to three children: Thomas (who died shortly after his birth), Martha Jane, who was born on 21 July 1851, and William George, who was born 2 July 1855.
In the latter part of 1855, Thomas, Jane and their two children, along with Thomas's younger sister Elizabeth (born 1834) and her husband Samuel Cartlidge, prepared to leave their native England to emigrate to America, where they wanted to join the rest of the L.D.S. "Saints" in Utah.
On 25 May 1856, Thomas and Jane and their two children, along with Elizabeth and Samuel Cartlidge, left on the ship Horizon, from Liverpool, England. The Horizon was commanded by a Captain Reid, and the "Mormon company" aboard this vessel was under the direction of Elder Edward Martin. Aboard the Horizon there were 692 adults, 136 children and 26 infants, totaling 854 passengers. Thomas, Jane and their children paid their own fares and were therefore booked as ordinary passengers, while the majority of the other Mormon immigrants aboard were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund of the L.D.S. Church. The ship Horizon reached Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on 30 June 1856.
Shortly after arriving in the northeastern United States, Thomas's money ran out, and he and Jane were forced to stop in Pennsylvania where Thomas then worked just long enough in the surrounding coal mines to obtain enough money to get him and his family to Madison County, Illinois.
By the middle of 1857, Thomas and Jane Brough had settled in the area of Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. There Thomas rented a farm, and for the next seven years, from 1857 to 1864, he grew corn and raised hogs and other farm animals. (The 1860 Census shows Thomas and Jane and their four children--Martha Jane, William George, Samuel Richard and Adria Elizabeth-residing in the area of Bethalto "Madison [County], Illinois," and the "value of [their] personal estate" at about "$50".) While in Madison County, Thomas's wife Jane gave birth to four more children, with their first child born on American soil being Samuel Richard Brough, born on 20 August 1857. Three other children followed the birth of Samuel: Adria Elizabeth, born 13 October 1859; Mary Ann, born 17 March 1862; and Emily Ellen, born 23 March 1864.
By the year 1864, which was in the midst of the U.S. Civil War, Thomas had secured enough money to purchase a wagon and team of oxen in which he could take his growing family from Illinois to Utah. His means of transportation included a lumber wagon, two yoke of oxen and a cow. Thomas, Jane and their six children started out toward Utah on about 15 June 1864 in a wagon train of approximately one hundred wagons. Three months later, on 18 September 1864, Thomas, Jane and their children arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. (The town of Porterville was first settled by Sanford Porter in 1860.)
Before leaving Illinois, Thomas sold nearly all of his family's furniture and instructed Jane to pack only their clothing and food, including some wheat, in their wagon for their trip westward. However, Jane took the liberty to pack an old clock between some clothing which Thomas never knew about until they arrived in Utah. This timekeeper later proved to be the only functioning clock in the pioneer settlement of Porterville during the first year after their arrival in Utah.
After traveling about five hundred miles from Illinois, one of Thomas's oxen took sick and died. Thomas had a cow which he had brought along for his children to have milk, so one of his emigrant friends who also had a cow helped him yoke their two cows together to Thomas's wagon so the Broughs could continue their journey westward. Thomas eventually made a single yoke for the mate of the ox who had died and put him along on the lead of the wagon to guide the two cows.
During their journey westward, Jane placed the milk from their cow in a crock jar in their wagon, whereupon the shake of the wagon churned a little pat of butter which the family enjoyed each day as they traveled towards Utah.
When Thomas and Jane arrived in Utah in September 1864, fall had already set in and Thomas was not able to build his family a home before winter set it. So he made a 12' by 14' dugout in the hillside near Porterville and placed his family within this shelter for their first winter in Utah. During this first winter, Thomas was not able to get any flour for his family, so until spring arrived his family utilized the wheat they had brought from Illinois, and the children took turns grinding the wheat through a small coffee mill for their bread.
Following his first winter in Utah, Thomas located some good farm land, and by the fall of 1865, he and his younger brother Samuel had built a small adobe one-room home for Thomas's family in Porterville. Within two more years, he utilized the brickmaking skills he had learned and practiced in his native England, and had built two brick rooms adjoining his adobe home. These were the first bricks made in Porterville, and Thomas, along with his brother Samuel, manufactured other bricks which were used in constructing a number of buildings in the Porterville area. In fact, the first LDS Chapel in West Porterville was built in 1870 from bricks made by Thomas Brough. This brick Chapel--which existed from 1870 to 1899--measured "20 x 30 feet, and 12 feet to the square" and served as both a "meeting house and school" for people living in West Porterville.
In addition to manufacturing bricks in Porterville, Thomas, and his brother Samuel, also operated a brickyard in east Kaysville between about 1867 and 1881. This large brickyard was known as the "Brough Brick Yard on Cemetery Street." Today, the ground on which the Brough Brick Yard was once located is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is occupied by the LDS Kaysville Crestwood Wardhouse--located at 1039 East Crestwood Road, Kaysville, Utah.
Thomas was a very industrious and honest man. After moving to Porterville, he cultivated his land with the aid of oxen and harvested his crops with a scythe and a grain cradle. He was a true leader and lived the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the best of his ability. He never touched liquor or tobacco and kept the Sabbath Day as a holy day. He was first ordained a Branch President in 1875 and later as the first Bishop of the new West Porterville Ward when the Morgan Stake was organized in 1877. He held this position as Bishop of the West Porterville Ward until his death in 1882.
Thomas was a devoted husband and a kind father. He loved and cherished his wife, and the two of them righteously raised seven children. Their last child, Alice Eliza, was born on 18 June 1866 in Porterville.
At the age of almost 50, and in the first week of May 1882, Thomas was suddenly struck by appendicitis. Two days later he died on 6 May 1882. However, before passing away, he called all his children to his bedside, except his son William George who was then on a mission, and, like Jacob of Old, gave each of his children a dying father's patriarchal blessing.
Following the death of Thomas, his wife Jane resigned herself to her position and determined to make the best of it. Prior to her husband's death, Jane had practiced midwifery and nursing in Porterville for ten years, and after her husband died she continued to practice frontier medicine in the community for the next 21 years. She received her certificate to practice obstetrics from the State Medical Board of Utah and proved very successful in this specific profession, bringing scores of babies into the world. She was a real pioneer doctor, using herbs, bark and roots she gathered from the surrounding mountains and plains to treat the various illnesses of her patients. She often treated her patients without asking for or receiving remuneration of any kind. She was truly loved by everyone in her community. Jane was also an excellent seamstress, homemaker and diligent temple worker. She taught all of her children the Gospel and the importance of living a righteous life, and all of her children remained faithful Latter-day Saints to the end of their lives.
Jane died 21 years after her husband's death, at the age of 73 on 6 August 1903 in Porterville, Utah, and is buried alongside her husband in the Porterville Cemetery.Obituary of Thomas Brough, taken from the Millenial Star 05/24/1882 (via Ancestry.com):
"Died at West Porterville, Morgan County, Utah, May 6th, 1882, Bishop Thomas Brough. He was born in Longton, Staffordshire, England, October 22nd, 1831; joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in an early day; was married to Miss Jane Patterson, of the above named place November 9th; 1851; emigrated to America in 1856; resided in Madison County, Illinois, eight years; came to Utah in 1864, and located at Porterville, Morgan County; was called to preside over the West Porterville Branch in 1873, and when the Morgan Stake was organized, was ordained a Bishop to preside over the West Porterville Ward, which position he honorably filled until he was called to pass behind the vail. He was the father of nine children-four sons and five daughters-of whom seven are still living and in good standing in the Church. His eldest son William G., is now on a mission in Pennsylvania.
Brother Brough was a man of sterling integrity, upright in his dealings with his fellow-man, honest in his purpose, unwavering in his faith, and zealous for the cause he had espoused, faithfully performing the duties of his office according to the wisdom and ability he possessed, ever striving to keep within counsel. Was a faithful husband and a kind father. He called all of his family together, with the exception of one on a mission and blessed them one by one, like unto Jacob of old, charging them to be honest and virtuous, seeking the things of righteousness, and not to set their hearts too much on the things of this world, and when asked a day or two previous to his death if they should send for William, his answer was no; he is doing a good work, let him stay at his post until he is honorably released. He remarked, we fear death, but Oh, how sweet. I am going with the armor of righteousness on, and will soon take up my labors again; gave instructions as to the funeral services and burial, and retained his reasoning faculties until he fell asleep to await the resurrection of the just. Thus passed away a good man surrounded by his family and friends."
(Note: According to extensive research, Thomas Brough only had three sons, not four sons as stated above in his obituary.)
The birth and christening of "Jean Paterson" is listed in FamilySearch (via Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950), which states that she was born on 12 April 1830 and christened on 9 May 1830 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and that her parents were "George Paterson" and "Jean Watson".
In the 1851 Census for Scotland, "Jean Paterson" is listed as being 20 years old (born about 1831), "Unmarried" and a "Scholar" and residing as a "Lodger" in the home of George Rennie (age 50) and Isabella (age 40) at: 36 West Russell Street, Barony, Blythswood, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The 1851 marriage certificate of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" was obtained from the GRO in England in March 2012 by the Brough Family Organization, and stated that they were married by Banns on 9 November 1851 in St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; that they were "Both [of] Fenton"; that Thomas Brough was of "full age" and a Bachelor and Collier, and that his father was Richard Brough, a Brickmaker; and that Jane Pattison was of "full age" and a Spinster, and that her father was George Pattison, an Engineer. The marriage was witnessed by Robert Pattison and Martha Lucy Lowe.
Research Note: Jean Paterson has been known for many years as "Jane Patterson" to a number of RBFO family members. However, recent research has shown her original name as "Jean Paterson". For example, the Barony Parish Record (in Scotland) and the LDS Church Extraction Program lists her name as "Jean Paterson." Therefore, RBFO Genealogists have now listed her name as "Jean or Jane Paterson" in RBFO files.
Research Note: On 2 February 1867, Jane Brough performed her live LDS Endowment (as recorded by clerk Joseph F. Smith, FHL Special Collections Film # 183405, pages 90-91) in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah, and stated that she was born on 12 April 1831 in Glasgow, Lanarks, Scotland, and was baptized into the LDS Church in 1853 as the daughter of George Paterson and Jane Watson.
History of Jean (Jane) Paterson
Edited by R. Clayton Brough, John M. Brough and Marie B. Nielson, July 2005. Edited from material that originally appeared in the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors and Descendants", pp.11-13.
Thomas Brough was born on 22 October 1832 to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston in Longton, Lane End, Staffordshire, England. He was christened on 11 November 1832 at St. John Parish Church (of England) in Lane End, Longton. In 1840, Thomas Brough's father, Richard Brough, had joined the L.D.S. Church, and about nine years later Thomas also joined the L.D.S. Church, being baptized on 7 January 1849 by Elder Wesley Meigh of the L.D.S. Longton Branch.
As a young man, Thomas worked in the coal mines around Longton and practiced the trades of masonry and carpentry. In fact, British Census records state that Thomas was working as a "App. Potter" when he was only "9" years old and as a "Coal Miner" when he was "18" years of age.
On 9 November 1851, Thomas Brough married Jean (Jane) Paterson (who was born on 12 April 1830 in Barony, Lanarshire, Scotland) at St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. At the time of their marriage Jane was not a member of the L.D.S. Church, but she later joined the L.D.S. Church in January 1855. During the first four years of their marriage, Jane gave birth to three children: Thomas (who died shortly after his birth), Martha Jane, who was born on 21 July 1851, and William George, who was born 2 July 1855.
In the latter part of 1855, Thomas, Jane and their two children, along with Thomas's younger sister Elizabeth (born 1834) and her husband Samuel Cartlidge, prepared to leave their native England to emigrate to America, where they wanted to join the rest of the L.D.S. "Saints" in Utah.
On 25 May 1856, Thomas and Jane and their two children, along with Elizabeth and Samuel Cartlidge, left on the ship Horizon, from Liverpool, England. The Horizon was commanded by a Captain Reid, and the "Mormon company" aboard this vessel was under the direction of Elder Edward Martin. Aboard the Horizon there were 692 adults, 136 children and 26 infants, totaling 854 passengers. Thomas, Jane and their children paid their own fares and were therefore booked as ordinary passengers, while the majority of the other Mormon immigrants aboard were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund of the L.D.S. Church. The ship Horizon reached Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on 30 June 1856.
Shortly after arriving in the northeastern United States, Thomas's money ran out, and he and Jane were forced to stop in Pennsylvania where Thomas then worked just long enough in the surrounding coal mines to obtain enough money to get him and his family to Madison County, Illinois.
By the middle of 1857, Thomas and Jane Brough had settled in the area of Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. There Thomas rented a farm, and for the next seven years, from 1857 to 1864, he grew corn and raised hogs and other farm animals. (The 1860 Census shows Thomas and Jane and their four children--Martha Jane, William George, Samuel Richard and Adria Elizabeth-residing in the area of Bethalto "Madison [County], Illinois," and the "value of [their] personal estate" at about "$50".) While in Madison County, Thomas's wife Jane gave birth to four more children, with their first child born on American soil being Samuel Richard Brough, born on 20 August 1857. Three other children followed the birth of Samuel: Adria Elizabeth, born 13 October 1859; Mary Ann, born 17 March 1862; and Emily Ellen, born 23 March 1864.
By the year 1864, which was in the midst of the U.S. Civil War, Thomas had secured enough money to purchase a wagon and team of oxen in which he could take his growing family from Illinois to Utah. His means of transportation included a lumber wagon, two yoke of oxen and a cow. Thomas, Jane and their six children started out toward Utah on about 15 June 1864 in a wagon train of approximately one hundred wagons. Three months later, on 18 September 1864, Thomas, Jane and their children arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. (The town of Porterville was first settled by Sanford Porter in 1860.)
Before leaving Illinois, Thomas sold nearly all of his family's furniture and instructed Jane to pack only their clothing and food, including some wheat, in their wagon for their trip westward. However, Jane took the liberty to pack an old clock between some clothing which Thomas never knew about until they arrived in Utah. This timekeeper later proved to be the only functioning clock in the pioneer settlement of Porterville during the first year after their arrival in Utah.
After traveling about five hundred miles from Illinois, one of Thomas's oxen took sick and died. Thomas had a cow which he had brought along for his children to have milk, so one of his emigrant friends who also had a cow helped him yoke their two cows together to Thomas's wagon so the Broughs could continue their journey westward. Thomas eventually made a single yoke for the mate of the ox who had died and put him along on the lead of the wagon to guide the two cows.
During their journey westward, Jane placed the milk from their cow in a crock jar in their wagon, whereupon the shake of the wagon churned a little pat of butter which the family enjoyed each day as they traveled towards Utah.
When Thomas and Jane arrived in Utah in September 1864, fall had already set in and Thomas was not able to build his family a home before winter set it. So he made a 12' by 14' dugout in the hillside near Porterville and placed his family within this shelter for their first winter in Utah. During this first winter, Thomas was not able to get any flour for his family, so until spring arrived his family utilized the wheat they had brought from Illinois, and the children took turns grinding the wheat through a small coffee mill for their bread.
Following his first winter in Utah, Thomas located some good farm land, and by the fall of 1865, he and his younger brother Samuel had built a small adobe one-room home for Thomas's family in Porterville. Within two more years, he utilized the brickmaking skills he had learned and practiced in his native England, and had built two brick rooms adjoining his adobe home. These were the first bricks made in Porterville, and Thomas, along with his brother Samuel, manufactured other bricks which were used in constructing a number of buildings in the Porterville area. In fact, the first LDS Chapel in West Porterville was built in 1870 from bricks made by Thomas Brough. This brick Chapel--which existed from 1870 to 1899--measured "20 x 30 feet, and 12 feet to the square" and served as both a "meeting house and school" for people living in West Porterville.
In addition to manufacturing bricks in Porterville, Thomas, and his brother Samuel, also operated a brickyard in east Kaysville between about 1867 and 1881. This large brickyard was known as the "Brough Brick Yard on Cemetery Street." Today, the ground on which the Brough Brick Yard was once located is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is occupied by the LDS Kaysville Crestwood Wardhouse--located at 1039 East Crestwood Road, Kaysville, Utah.
Thomas was a very industrious and honest man. After moving to Porterville, he cultivated his land with the aid of oxen and harvested his crops with a scythe and a grain cradle. He was a true leader and lived the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the best of his ability. He never touched liquor or tobacco and kept the Sabbath Day as a holy day. He was first ordained a Branch President in 1875 and later as the first Bishop of the new West Porterville Ward when the Morgan Stake was organized in 1877. He held this position as Bishop of the West Porterville Ward until his death in 1882.
Thomas was a devoted husband and a kind father. He loved and cherished his wife, and the two of them righteously raised seven children. Their last child, Alice Eliza, was born on 18 June 1866 in Porterville.
At the age of almost 50, and in the first week of May 1882, Thomas was suddenly struck by appendicitis. Two days later he died on 6 May 1882. However, before passing away, he called all his children to his bedside, except his son William George who was then on a mission, and, like Jacob of Old, gave each of his children a dying father's patriarchal blessing.
Following the death of Thomas, his wife Jane resigned herself to her position and determined to make the best of it. Prior to her husband's death, Jane had practiced midwifery and nursing in Porterville for ten years, and after her husband died she continued to practice frontier medicine in the community for the next 21 years. She received her certificate to practice obstetrics from the State Medical Board of Utah and proved very successful in this specific profession, bringing scores of babies into the world. She was a real pioneer doctor, using herbs, bark and roots she gathered from the surrounding mountains and plains to treat the various illnesses of her patients. She often treated her patients without asking for or receiving remuneration of any kind. She was truly loved by everyone in her community. Jane was also an excellent seamstress, homemaker and diligent temple worker. She taught all of her children the Gospel and the importance of living a righteous life, and all of her children remained faithful Latter-day Saints to the end of their lives.
Jane died 21 years after her husband's death, at the age of 73 on 6 August 1903 in Porterville, Utah, and is buried alongside her husband in the Porterville Cemetery.
Marriage Notes for Thomas Brough and Jean Paterson-65
The 1851 marriage certificate of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" was obtained from the GRO in England in March 2012 by the Brough Family Organization, and stated that they were married by Banns on 9 November 1851 in St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; that they were "Both [of] Fenton"; that Thomas Brough was of "full age" and a Bachelor and Collier, and that his father was Richard Brough, a Brickmaker; and that Jane Pattison was of "full age" and a Spinster, and that her father was George Pattison, an Engineer. The marriage was witnessed by Robert Pattison and Martha Lucy Lowe.
In March 2012, the Brough Family Organizaiton obtained a copy of the birth certificate of "Thomas Brough" from England, which stated that he was born on 20 July 1852 in Dresden, Trentham, Staffordshire, England, and that his father was Thomas Brough, a Collier, and that his mother was "Jane Brough formerly Peatenson".
In March 2012, the Brough Family Organization obtained a copy of the death certificate of "Thomas Brough" from England, which stated that he died on 10 August 1852 in Dresden, Trentham, Staffordshire, from "Enteritis" (or inflammation of the small intestine) when he was "3 weeks" old, and that his father was Thomas Brough, a Collier, and that the informant of his death was Ann Frost of Fenton, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
The 1852 death of "Thomas Brough" is listed in the online GRO Index and Staffordshire BMD, which states that his death was registered in July-September 1852 in Trentham subdistrict, Stone district. Staffordshire, England, and that he died when he was "0" years old--or under the age of one year old.
The 1852 death of Thomas Brough is listed as "10 August 1852" in an entry in the record of the LDS "Sealing to Parents" at the LDS Logan Temple on 20 October 1886. This record can be found in the FHL Special Collections Section, Film #178087, p.472.
The 1852 burial of "Thomas Brough" is listed in FamilySearch (FHL Film # 1471086, Item #5), which states that he was buried on 13 August 1852 at St. James church in Longton, Staffordshire, England, and that he was of "Dresden" and died when he was an "Infant."
Emily was never married.