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-88
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.
"John James Cherry" was re-baptized and confirmed into the LDS Church on 29 September 1856 in Centerville, Utah. This is recorded in the "Record of Members, 1856-1917, Centerville Ward, Davis Stake, Utah" (FHL Film# 25855, page 2), which states that "John James Cherry" was the son of "Margaret Yelton" and "Aron B. Cherry" and was born on "June 13, 1834" in "Pendleton, Kentucky", and re-baptized and confirmed into the LDS Church on "September 29, 1856".
History of John James Cherry
History of John James Cherry and Laura Bratton. Written by Laura Walton L. Barber.
John James Cherry, son of Aaron Benjamin and Margaret Yelton, was born 13 January 1834 at Falsmouth, Kentucky. Laura Bratton, the daughter of George Washington Bratton and Mary Palmer Graves, was born on 10 November 1841, in Ottawa, Illinois. They were married on 25 October 1856 in the LDS Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah.
John and Laura both came to Utah with their parents as children. John James built a two room rock house just north and east of his father’s home in Centerville, Utah. The home is owned by Laura Smith, 87 East 300 South, Centerville, and is 108 years old. It was in this home that my grandmother Phoebe Adeline Cheery was born in 1861.
When Johnson’s Army was sent into Utah, John James went to meet them in Echo Canyon with the rest of the men from Centerville. In 1861, when Church authorities called fro men and teams to be sent to the Missouri River to help the weary hand cart saints, John made four of these trips (1862, 1863, 1864, 1866). When the Salt Lake Temple was being built, John took his oxen and went with others into the canyon to haul rock for the foundation.
In 1873, the family moved to Porterville, Morgan County, Utah, but returned to Centerville in 1885 and built a large brick home on Highway 91. In 1908, they moved to Lyman, Wyoming, to be with their son and daughter, but again in 1911, returned to Centerville. Centerville was their real home and it always had a drawing point, no matter where they happened to be.
Grandmother Laura Bratton Cherry died 1 February 1924 and Grandfather John James died 15 May 1925. John’s life can be added up in this way: “He was an honest man, a good neighbor and a true Latter-day Saint.”
History of Laura Bratton
History of John James Cherry and Laura Bratton. Written by Laura Walton L. Barber.
John James Cherry, son of Aaron Benjamin and Margaret Yelton, was born 13 January 1834 at Falsmouth, Kentucky. Laura Bratton, the daughter of George Washington Bratton and Mary Palmer Graves, was born on 10 November 1841, in Ottawa, Illinois. They were married on 25 October 1856 in the LDS Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah.
John and Laura both came to Utah with their parents as children. John James built a two room rock house just north and east of his father’s home in Centerville, Utah. The home is owned by Laura Smith, 87 East 300 South, Centerville, and is 108 years old. It was in this home that my grandmother Phoebe Adeline Cheery was born in 1861.
When Johnson’s Army was sent into Utah, John James went to meet them in Echo Canyon with the rest of the men from Centerville. In 1861, when Church authorities called fro men and teams to be sent to the Missouri River to help the weary hand cart saints, John made four of these trips (1862, 1863, 1864, 1866). When the Salt Lake Temple was being built, John took his oxen and went with others into the canyon to haul rock for the foundation.
In 1873, the family moved to Porterville, Morgan County, Utah, but returned to Centerville in 1885 and built a large brick home on Highway 91. In 1908, they moved to Lyman, Wyoming, to be with their son and daughter, but again in 1911, returned to Centerville. Centerville was their real home and it always had a drawing point, no matter where they happened to be.
Grandmother Laura Bratton Cherry died 1 February 1924 and Grandfather John James died 15 May 1925. John’s life can be added up in this way: “He was an honest man, a good neighbor and a true Latter-day Saint.”
History of Thomas James Brough (1882-1948) and Julia Francis Stagowski
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Thomas James Brough was the first child and son of Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry. He was born at West Porterville, Morgan County, Utah on February 18, 1882, in a two-room brick home, one block north of the church and school house on the east side of the road where he lived for nine years.
In 1886 when Thomas was just five years old, his father was called on an LDS mission to Great Britain. There were three boys left for Addeline to care for, Thomas James, Jesse Samuel and Ernest LeRoy. His father returned from his mission in December of 1890 and was met by the family at the home of Thomas's great grandfather, Aaron Benjamin Cherry, in Centerville, Utah.
To Thomas, being the oldest of the family, responsibility came early. Thomas worked in the gardens of Porterville, both the family garden and those of neighbors, to help with family expenses while his father was on his mission. At the age of nine he was struck with rheumatic fever and was bedfast so long that he had to learn to walk again.
By the time he was ten years old he was helping his father with the work on the "Lyman Bench" homestead where homestead claims had been filed on in March of 1892. This land had been just released from the Fort Bridger Military Reservation. Part of this homestead is now the town site of Lyman, Wyoming.
In those first years in the Bridger Valley they built a home of hewn logs for their family and helped others moving into this unsettled country. They built homes for Harriet Ryder, George Stewart, Theodore Durrant and Joseph Woolsey.
This account was reported in the Evanston Newspaper in November 1892, "The first load of oats ever shipped from Ft. Bridger came into town Thursday, they were raised by Mr. S. R. Brough, who has the credit of raising the first and only crop of oats ever raised on the Bridger Bench…and the best they have received this season."
In the fall of 1892 his father, Samuel R., stayed in the Bridger Valley to hew ties for the Carter and Carter Tie Company, and Thomas J. returned to Porterville for school. Thomas returned to the Lyman Bench in the spring with the family. During that summer he helped in building the first log school house and church on what was later the Henry Bluemel homestead, also helping with the first highway" between Lyman and old Ft. Bridger.
During the fall of 1895, at age 13, he drove his father to Wasatch to catch a train and was caught in a heavy Wyoming blizzard over the Continental Divide on his trip home alone. Wisely, he released the horses allowing them by instinct to find their way home the remainder of the miles with him walking most of the way to keep from freezing and arriving at home about 2:00 A.M. He made other trips of nearly 75 miles to Echo, Utah to have grain ground into flour for the family winter supply. These trips would take seven or eight days with a four-horse team, quite a challenge for a boy in his early teens.
All through the years Thomas J. used his teams and wagons to haul freight from the railroad, from the mountains or the coal mines, of Kemmerer, Cumberland, Elkohl and Blazon. The freight consisted of logs for buildings, cedar posts, vegetable and meat to the mines with the return trip of coal. The roads were only wagon trails, hot and dusty in summer, cold and snow piled in winter. He hauled the freight from the railroad to Kemmerer for the (first) J. C. Penney Company #1 store.
In 1902 and 1903 while he attended school at the Brigham Young Academy, he was called to take a missionary course and in May of 1903, he was called to the Great Britain Mission where he was assigned to the Liverpool Conference which took him into Ireland, Scotland and Isle of Man. He was released and returned home in July of 1905. In 1906 he was called as stake president of the Woodruff Stake Y.M.M.I.A. and served in this position until 1912.
On November 25, 1908, he was married in the Salt Lake City temple to Julia Frances Slagowski, daughter of Xceverius Franciscus Slagowski born in Rogozna, Grudzadz, Poland, and Rosina Rindlesbacher, born in Walkringen, Berne, Switzerland. They made their first home on a homestead of 160 acres located southwest of Lyman in a comfortable home that he had almost completed prior to their marriage. To this couple, eleven children were born, ten of whom are still living in 1979.
During the early 1900's he took part in:
Building the first homes on the Lyman Bench.
Building the first canal systems for irrigation from Black's Fork River.
Building the first church and school houses. Held stock in and helped build first flour mill.
Built and owned the first Implement House with his father, S. R. Brough.
Built and owned the first livery stable.
Built and owned the first movie theater in Lyman. Helped organize the Lyman Telephone Company.
Helped organize the Bridger Valley Enterprise (newspaper) and was an officer and stockholder of same.He and Reuben Blackner worked an eight-horse team, clearing the first automobile road from Granger to Lyman--later to be the Lincoln Highway Route #3O. Was charter member and on the Board of Directors of the Bridger Valley Electric Association.
During his years of married life, Thomas J. Brough worked diligently on his farm and ranch. Also during this period of his lifetime he held many civic offices. He served four terms in the State Legislature for the State of Wyoming in the years 1911, 1913, 1916 and 1921. He was a member of the State Board of Immigration for four years, a member of the State Board of Agriculture for two years, Justice of the Peace for four years. School Board member for four years, president of the Uinta Co. Farm Bureau for five years, officer of Black's Fork Power and Irrigation District for ten years, secretary of State Farm Bureau for six years. He was appointed by the governor and State Board of Agriculture and State Farm Bureau to attend a convention of eleven western states, in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1927 where the Colorado River Water and Agriculture problems were discussed.
In 1927, under Governor Emmerson, he was appointed as superintendent of the Uinta Co. Experimental Farm, providing he would attend the University of Wyoming for one year. In 1928 he went to the university and within six weeks was given an honorary degree in agriculture. He loved flowers and trees and landscaped beautifully wherever he lived and encouraged it throughout the valley, using native plants wherever possible.
He served as superintendent of the experimental farm and member of the University of Wyoming faculty for 15 years. Upon accepting this position, he sold his original ranch and farm west of Lyman. During the time he was superintendent of the experimental farm, he continued his civic and spiritual activities. He served in the office as a President of the 224th Seventy Quorum of the L.D.S. Church for twelve years. In 1934 he was called as Lyman Stake Welfare Director. In 1937 he became a member of the Lyman Stake High Council, and in April 1940 was chosen and set apart by Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith to be President of the Lyman Stake. He was released because of poor health in April 1946.
During the period he was superintendent of the experimental farm he also acquired land for his family, after selling the original home to Antone Hanson. There was 960 acres deeded and several state lease sections called the Granger Flat Ranch which was homesteaded in the early 1930's. The younger children of Thomas J. and Julia (Ursel, Blaine, Warren, Byron and Morris) spent many long months working the land, building fences, reservoirs and ditches. There was also the 160 acres and leased land called the Cotton Wood Corrals ranch. A lovely home was built there in 1944, with eleven rooms, two baths with electricity and gas. Thomas J. hoped to retire there but he was only able to live there a few months. He was forced to sell his ranch and farm, due to heart trouble. He spent several winters in Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona, hoping the warm weather and lower altitude would improve his health. He died on October 5, 1948. Funeral services were held both at Lyman, Wyoming and Salt Lake City, Utah, because of his many friends, and relatives at both places. The speakers at the Salt Lake services requested to speak because of the great love and respect they had for Thomas James Brough. The family was honored as they were spoken to by Apostle LeGrand Richards and President J. Reuben Clark.
Julia, his wife, was always with him to encourage and help him in every way she could and had an active life in church and community affairs along with him. Julia came to Lyman with her mother and brother John Slagowski in the spring of 1901. They spent some time at Ft. Bridger before moving to the Lyman community. Julia taught school about three and a half years before she married. She was active in teaching and in executive positions in almost every organization in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was also attending to civic affairs while raising her large family. In 1920 she was delegated by the Governor of Wyoming to represent Wyoming at the National Farm Women's Congress. She held all offices in the Associated Women of the Wyoming Farm Bureau and was president for four years and attended conventions as a Wyoming representative in Baltimore, Maryland, New Orleans, Louisiana, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.
After Thomas's death Julia lived in Salt Lake City for many years, filling a stake mission for two years and acting as a temple worker for over ten years, also holding a job in the church offices until she was 72 years old. She remained in Salt Lake City until June of 1972 when she moved to Mesa, Arizona. She passed away at the age of 89 years on July 3, 1978. Both she and her husband Thomas were buried in the city cemetery in Bountiful, Utah.
History of Jesse Samuel Brough (1884-1958) and Luella Nebeker
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally compiled by Eugenia Brough Pickup in 1980HISTORY:
Jesse Samuel Brough was born February 12, 1884, at Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. He was the second child and son of Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry. His brothers are: Thomas James, Ernest LeRoy, Wallace Calvin, Byron Cherry and Parley Pratt. His sisters are: Laura Adeline and Nettie May.
He was reared in a plural family, shared his father with a second wife, Ann Eliza Carter, whom he fondly referred to as "Aunt Eliza." His brothers are: Horace, Franklin Reed, Hyrum Carter and Charles Lester. His sisters are: Eliza Viola, Eveline Jane and Emily May.
While he was a small boy, his father was called to Great Britain to fill a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His mother, having a strong testimony of the Gospel, cared for the family (Thomas, age 4" Jesse, age 2, and LeRoy, age 1) until his father's return.
He spent his early childhood in Porterville, Utah and was baptized and confirmed a member of the church on April 17, 1892 at Porterville, Utah by his father, Samuel Richard Brough. Here he lived with his mother, brothers and sisters and a father who shared equal time with his two families until the year 1896. From here he moved with his family into a home his father built for them on a homestead in the Bridger Valley, Wyoming area which later became the town of Lyman, Wyoming. He spent his boyhood here on this farm. Here he was taught to love the soil and all it produced along with the value of hard and honest work, the importance of thrift, and to acknowledge God's hand in all things. He was taught by parents who set a worthy example.
He went to grammar school at Porterville, Utah. Later attended high school at Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah, and then on to the Fielding Academy in Paris, Idaho where he was enrolled in a missionary class.
On June 6, 1906, at the age of 22, he left Salt Lake City, Utah and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to fill a mission to Great Britain for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While there, he served as president of the Irish Conference. After filling an honorable mission, he was released on May 2, 1908 to return to his home and family in Lyman, Wyoming.
He helped his family with the farm work and was also employed as a salesman for Studebaker Buggies. He was also active in his church. He was called to serve on the Sunday School Stake Board in the Woodruff Stake. It was here he met Luella Nebeker from Randolph, Utah, who was also on the Sunday School Stake Board. They were married on February 2, 1910, in the Salt Lake Temple. Luella Nebeker is the third child of Alfred Woodcock Nebeker and Elizabeth Snowball.
Twelve children were born to them eight sons and four daughters as follows: Myron Jesse, Nellie, Donna and Donald Nebeker (twins), George Kenneth, Eugenia, John Garr, Richard Grant, Wallace Dee, Robert Shirley, Gilbert Lincoln and Bonnie Lou.
He lived in Lyman, Wyoming after his marriage and worked for the Studebaker Company. They built their home there, but later sold it and purchased a farm from his father in Lyman, Wyoming. He had been taught by his father the skills to become a good farmer. Farming was the life he knew and loved. During this time four of his children were born Myron, Nellie, and Donna and Donald (twins).
In the year 1914, land in the Uintah Basin was opened for homesteading. He applied for some of this land.
Since the climate was not favorable in Wyoming (the winters were long and cold with lots of wind and snow), he felt he could do better for his family if he made the move to the Uintah Basin. He, therefore, left his parents, brothers and sisters and friends and came to Utah.
He and his wife and four small children traveled over the mountain in wagons, stopping for the night in the towns they traveled through. After traveling this way for two weeks, they arrived at the home of Alfred and Elizabeth Nebeker at Tridell, Utah on October 12, 1915. They lived in part of their home until the following spring.
In the spring of 1916, he moved his family onto a farm known as the Fletcher farm, where they lived for one year. The following year he leased some land from Mr. John Star, a Ute Indian, in the LaPoint area, and moved his family there. He worked very hard clearing the raw land and planting his crops of oats, hay, wheat and corn. He also cared for livestock and raised gardens to help provide food for his family. He was a faithful man with deep religious principles, honored his priesthood and was active in all church and community programs. Times were not easy for him at this time. He and his friends and neighbors were close to each other and shared what they had to help each other.
He was called to be the second counselor to Bishop LeRoy Taylor while living in LaPoint. He was a man well qualified for this position and served faithfully in this calling until he moved from this area. Two more children were born to them during this time, George Kenneth and Eugenia.
In the year 1920, after a brief stay in Roosevelt, Utah where John Garr, his seventh child was born, he moved his family to Ouray Valley to improve his homestead there. The family spent the summers there building the home and improving the land and then went back to LaPoint during the winters so the children could attend school. Grant, another son, was born during this time in LaPoint.
His homestead was in the boundaries of the Leota Ward where he was called to be a counselor to Bishop John Ecker. The church was ten miles from his home and the only means of transportation at this time was the horse and buggy. The family would leave early on Sunday and stay most of the day. A lunch was packed to be eaten between the meetings. Sunday was a very special day for the family. He encouraged all of us to attend Church.
He was one of the early settlers in Ouray Valley. His homestead was located on the "Brough Bench." A branch of the Leota Ward was then organized and meetings were held in this building. He was called to be the Branch President.
He worked very hard to improve his homestead. Since there wasn't any power machinery at this time, he used horse-drawn equipment for his farming. He took great pride in his well-bred horses and other farm animals. He cleared the cactus and sage brush, plowed and planted his crops. He turned the new land into a productive farm. He was a good farmer; his crops were always very good when it was within his power to make them so. His grain bins were filled and his hay stacks were high. His livestock was always well cared for. He was up at daylight on a summer morning irrigating his crops and getting ready for the new day. He loved work and taught his family to love it also.
Four more children were born during these years: Wallace Dee, Robert Shirley, Gilbert Lincoln and Bonnie Lou. Bonnie Lou, his youngest child, passed away at the age of ten months in the Vernal Hospital of meningitis. This was a very sad note in his life.
He contributed very much to the building of canals, roads, etc. in the Ouray Valley, serving as president of the Ouray Park Irrigation Company for several years. He spent a lot of time and effort trying to improve the water system in the Valley. In the year 1972, a reservoir was constructed bearing his name, "Brough Reservoir."
Since a large number of people had settled in the Valley, it became necessary to build a new chapel and school. He helped to get the lumber from the mountains and also helped in the construction of the chapel where his children attended church and school. Things were good here for him until the depression of the 1930's. Along with the depression, there was a drought which brought added problems. In 1934, he leased a home and farmland in Randlett, Utah from Hoskey McKinley, a Navajo Indian, and moved his family there. Water rights were better there. They lived here for a few years until the drought was over and then the family returned to their farm in Ouray Valley.
Being the father of eight boys, he had help with his farming from his sons. He taught them the art of farming and livestock raising. He enjoyed working with his boys. In later years, some of his sons purchased the farm from him.
In the year 1942, he purchased a home and farmland near Fort Duchesne, Utah. The house and yard was nice, the soil fertile, water rights were good. At this time seven of his children were married and in homes of their own. They lived here for ten years. The younger four married during this time. He later sold this farm to his oldest son, Myron.
He filled the second mission in his later years among the Ute Indian people. He and his wife labored for two years at Whiterocks, Utah. He retired from his farm at this time and moved into the mission home. They left for their mission March 4, 1954 and served two years.
Following his mission, they purchased a home in Roosevelt, Utah where he spent his retiring years. Even though his health was failing, he was still very active in his church work. He enjoyed his retiring years very much as he lived close to his children and grandchildren and showed great love and respect for each one of them. They in return have special memories of their father and grandfather.
He died April 11, 1958. He was laid to rest near the farm where he spent most of his life-in the Avalon Cemetery. At the time of his death he was 74 years of age and had thirty-four grandchildren.
He was an outstanding speaker; he wasn't a speaker that raised his voice or talked real loud, but held his audience with a kind voice and interesting material.
Since he was well read and always prepared, he was frequently asked to speak in funerals, community gatherings and to teach. These he did willingly throughout his life.
It can truly be said of him that he endured to the end. He was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather.
Marriage Notes for Jesse Samuel Brough and Luella Nebeker-685
"Jesse Samuel Brough" and "Luella Nebeker" were married in the LDS Salt Lake Temple on 2 February 1910 (FHL Special Collections Film # 186207, page 227, item 4080).
Bonnie Lou Brough's body was moved from the Leota Cementery to the Avalon Cemetery, Randlett, Uinta, Utah, in about 1965.
History of Laura Adeline Brough (1893-1983) and George Clyde Bradshaw
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally written by Laura Adeline Brough Bradshaw in 1979HISTORY:
I, Laura Adeline Brough Bradshaw, daughter of Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry, was born November 18, 1893, at Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. I was the first girl and the fifth child. My four brothers, Thomas James, Samuel Jesse, Ernest LeRoy and Wallace Calvin, were all born in Porterville, Utah. I I have heard mother and father say many, many times how grateful and happy they were to have a baby girl.
My father had filled a four-year mission to England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. When he returned, he brought a beautiful little English chlna cup for his first daughter. I have valued it all my life. It was about three years after his return before I was born.
When I was three years old, my parents moved to what is now known as Lyman, Wyoming and took up a homestead. We lived in a tent until father and my older brothers could get enough logs to build mother and Aunt Eliza (the second wife) both nice houses. I remember well the hardships of pioneering life, yet it never seemed hard to us children, for we were all a very healthy and happy family.
I remember my grandmother, Jane Patterson Brough (my father's mother) quite well. She lived just across the street from us in Porterville. One morning I went over to see her, and as I opened the little picket gate a bee stung me. Of course I started crying and grandmother, who was out working in her garden, heard me and came to see what was the matter. She reached down in the ditch and got a handful of mud and held it over the sting and soon it was better. I have done this many times while raising my family.On October 11, 1897 my sister Nettie Mae was born. Mother was very, very sick for a long time after she was born, but I was so happy to have a little baby sister.
Soon other families began coming to homestead on land for their families in the Bridger Valley. Father was a wonderful leader and organizer. He got the other men together and they went to the mountains and cut, chopped and hauled logs enough to build a large house with a dirt roof and dirt floor. They then split logs and made seats. This was the first school house, church house and everything that a public building was needed for. A large, long black stove was put in to heat the building in the winter. About a four-foot long log could be put in it and it lasted a long time.
The next year a wide board floor was put in so they could have dances. The log seats were pushed together to make beds for the babies and smaller children while the parents and older boys and girls danced and had fun. There was always plenty of pies, cake and homemade ice cream as everyone brought something to eat. Mother used to make carrot pies and they tasted like pumpkin pies. Her peach pies with ice cream on top were delicious.
A few years later father was the presiding elder and Branch President and a leader in everything that helped develop the Bridger Valley. Mother's homestead was on a nice level piece of ground, and it was later chosen to be the town site.
I remember when Apostle Francis M. Lyman was the visiting authority at our conference. At this time the branch was made a ward and father was sustained as bishop, which office he held for 18 years. He was a very humble, faithful and wonderful bishop.
All eight grades of school were taught by one teacher. I remember well Miss Mary Wanlass. Not only was she the school teacher, she was my music teacher as well. When I was about 12 years old, I was the Primary organist. I also would play for Sunday School. Miss Wanlass would pick out the songs and I would practice them for my music lesson.
There was always so much work to do with our big family: washing, cooking, cleaning, sewing, ironing, etc. Mother always planned to bake and iron the same day so that one hot fire could do them both. We used heavy flat-irons. It wasn't as easy as plugging in an electric iron, but mother always took time to teach Nettie and me how to do things. I loved to sew, and when I was 13 years old, I made all my own clothes to go to Logan where I was to attend the B. Y. College. It was quite an experience to go so far away from home alone. I was a pretty lonesome and homesick girl for a while. I majored in Home Economics and sewing and I took violin lessons from Prof. Ottie. I attended college for two and a half years, then my brother Reed was called on a mission, and father could not keep me in college and him on a mission, so when I came home at Christmas I never went back. I was asked to be secretary of the M.I.A., also Sunday School organist and Sunday School teacher. I was very interested in dancing and drama and in mutual I took the leading part in many of the plays. I have always been very interested in artwork and have made many beautiful things: paintings, ceramics, crocheted pieces, quilts and many other things. I was the first telephone operator in Lyman.
When I was 17 years old I taught a dressmaking class to 14 girls and ladies, many of whom were much older than one. I taught them three days a week. It was very interesting as I always loved sewing. I also organized a "string band." It had three violins, two guitars, one banjo and one mandolin. We had so much fun practicing, and we got good enough to play in public.
Mother had two more children after Nettie. They were Byron Cherry and Parley Pratt. I was happy to have six fine, good brothers and just one sister.
I had a very happy childhood with so many interesting and pleasant memories. My teenage years were wonderful with so many dear friends, both boys and girls, and we always had something exciting and adventurous to look forward to.
I had many boy friends through the years, but it seemed I always went back to my sweetheart from the time we were five years old (George Clyde Bradshaw). We went through school and all our church activities together. He also attended the B. Y. College the same time I was there. He was so kind and thoughtful of me. If there was anything special going on at school like dances, drama plays, football games or lectures, he would always ask me if I had a date with some other boy and if I didn't, he would take me. We were together so much of our lives.
When I was 18 years old we became engaged and wanted to get married, but my parents thought that I was too young. They finally gave their consent, but we had to wait until I was 20 years old. Clyde was one of the most outstanding and fine young men in the whole Bridger Valley. We made our plans, and finally came to Salt Lake City and were married in the Holy Temple on December 23, 1914. It was one of the most wonderful days of our lives, and now at 86 years old, I can still remember the beautiful things that happened that day. We went back to Lyman and had a lovely reception and wedding dance. At the end of the dance my cousin, Clara Brough, sang so beautifully., "The End of a Perfect Day."
We started our new life in a two-room log house with a dirt roof. We covered the logs with a cheap factory cloth, then wall papered over it. Everything looked so nice and we were just as happy as if it had been a mansion. We named it the "Rosewood," as there were lots of wild roses growing around it. Clyde has always been a very hard-working and intelligent man, and we have prospered through the years. On December 23, 1979, we will have been married 65 years. We are both 86 years old, and each year has brought a deeper love for each other.
The Lord has blessed us with eight special spirits from heaven. Four boys: Harold George, Gilbert LeRoy, Ronald Brough and Ross Clyde. We also had four lovely and sweet daughters: Theda Deon, Gladys Fae, Vella Mae and Joyce Adeline, who died at birth. We are so proud and thrilled with each of them. They have brought much joy and happiness into our lives. They are all fine, intelligent and wonderful children, and they have all married especially good companions. They have good families, and we have 24 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren. All are well and healthy.
Our Heavenly Father has blessed us in every way all through our lives, and we have always tried to live by the teachings of the gospel and the plan of life as Christ gave to us to live by. I would like to tell some of the things I have done.
I was baptized June 7, 1902 at Lyman, Wyoming by Henry Voss. My patriarchal blessing was given by Joseph Gubell when I was 14 years old. In Lyman, Wyoming, I was Primary organist, Sunday School organist and a teacher in both these organizations. I was also secretary of the M.I.A. After moving to Salt Lake, I have been a seminary teacher, counselor to Clara Love in Forest Dale Ward, president of the Y.W.M.I.A, then in 1934 I was called as the Relief Society President. I was released when my last baby was born, then I was called again to be president of the Relief Society until we were called to go on a mission to the Texas-Louisiana Mission. We labored in Baytown, Texas. We left September 18, 1947 and returned April 4, 1948. After we returned home, I was called to be Ida Dean's counselor in the Stake Relief Society. I also served as the staff chairman on the Pioneer Welfare Program. I was in the Stake Relief Society for seven years, then my husband and I received a call from President David O. McKay to work as ordinance workers in the Salt Lake Temple. We worked there over 15 years, three days a week. I know it was one of the richest blessings and privileges I have ever had. What a spiritual blessing it was. My testimony grew as to the very important work of genealogy and temple work. My husband had a very serious heart attack and he was not able to work any longer. We received a very honorable release. We were so sorry, because we both had enjoyed our work there so much.
At my age, I have retired, but I still serve as a Relief Society block teacher.
I am very grateful to my Heavenly Father, to my parents, my good, noble and loving husband and all my wonderful children for the rich and happy life I have had. I have been blessed by having the privilege of helping to raise our dear, good family who are all so kind, thoughtful and helpful now that I am in the sunset of my life.
History of Nettie May Brough (1897-1981) and Enoch Leander Anderson
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Nettie May Brough was born October 11, 1897, in Lyman, Wyoming. Her father was Samuel Richard Brough, born August 20, 1857 at Bethalto, Illinois. Her mother was Phoebe Adeline Cherry, born September 7, 1860 at Centerville, Utah.
Shortly after the family had moved to Fort Bridger Bench (Lyman) in Wyoming to homestead, Nettie was born. The father and sons had just completed building a granary, the first of their buildings on that site. A bedroom was prepared in the granary and a midwife brought in to assist with the birth. There a sweet, healthy little red-headed baby girl was born October 11, 1897. She was named Nettie May. The rest of the family moved into the granary and remained there until the following spring when they were able to build a log house.
In the years that followed, Nettie grew strong in spirit and body. She loved playing dolls and dressing up in long dresses. Another favorite pasttime was playacting. She would write and direct the plays as she and her sisters entertained themselves and the family in this isolated community. Growing up in a polygamist family was not difficult for Nettie. She dearly loved her "other" brothers and sisters and enjoyed the companionship she had with them. She felt as close to them as to her full brothers and sisters. They attended school in a one-room log school house, where all grades were taught in the same room by the same teacher. They often hung blankets up to separate the classes.
On May 29, 1914, she completed the eight years of school required and graduated. Following her graduation she went to Salt Lake City, Utah. She lived with her mother's brother, Uncle Clair Cherry while attending Comptometer" school. Upon completion of the course in half the scheduled time, the school placed her in a good-paying position with the Union Pacific Railroad Company, as a timekeeper, in Green River, Wyoming. She had many experiences during the two years she worked there. The one which was especially impressive was when she actually witnessed the lynching of a black man. The man had had an argument in the lunch room with two white men. He left, went home, then returned with a gun and shot both of the white men. One died, the other was seriously injured. The townspeople were so angry about this that they caught this man and dragged him down the street by the neck and hanged him to the light pole in front of the station. This all happened just a few yards from where Nettie was working. Soon after this Nettie became homesick and gave up her job to return home to Lyman. She had not been home long when she was called on a mission to the Western States.
Nettie had leadership qualities and was soon called to be a Relief Society President in the mission field. She loved her work and served the Lord well. While helping some of the Indian families, she was exposed to and contracted small pox. The board of health forced her to leave her rented apartment and sent her to the "Pest House." She received tender, loving care from an old black nurse. The nurse was faithful in applying special ointment on her sores, and when she recovered she did not have a single scar. Her companion, Sister Cox, went with her to the Pest House and remained with her until she was well. During the illness, her mother and father were not allowed to go to her, but the Lord did bless her with special people who cared. Another companion was Fern Tanner who later married one of the elders who served in the same mission. This elder was Harold B. Lee who later became president of the church.
By the time she had completed her mission, her family had moved to Bountiful, Utah where she joined them. She was employed by Myers Cleaners and Dyers, as a complaint adjuster.
Her sister Laura Bradshaw was living in Salt Lake City, Utah. At that time she was renting rooms from Beda White. One day while Nettie was visiting Laura she met Beda White's brother, Lee Anderson, who had recently returned from a mission to the Northern States. A friendship and then a courtship followed. Nettie told of the time Lee took the Bamberger train out to Bountiful to see her. He had spent the evening and was preparing to leave and catch the last train to Salt Lake. He discovered his hat was missing. After a frantic search, Nettie's mother woke up her younger brother and made him get the hat which he had hidden earlier in the evening. They found it just in time for Lee to catch the train.
Nettie and Lee were married in the Salt Lake Temple December 21, 1922. A reception followed at the family home in Bountiful. Nettie's sister Laura had made her a beautiful brown satin suit especially for the occasion. She was most attractive in brown with her lovely auburn hair.
Their first home was an apartment in Beda White's home. Lee worked for Colliers Publishing Co. selling magazines and books. He also sold life insurance. Two children were born while they were living there: Thelma Mae on October 16, 1923 and Robert Brough on December 1, 1924.
The family moved to Ogden, Utah in 1925 and two more children were born there: Shirley Jean on February 18, 1926, and Laura Marie on May 13, 1927.
They returned to Salt Lake City shortly. Soon after moving back, the family came down with typhoid fever and whooping cough. Everyone had it but Lee, since he had been immunized while serving in the army. The sorrow and tragedy of death struck. Robert Brough (Bobby) died September 29, 1927. The rest of the family moved home from the hospital to recover. A few months later, Ruth Adeline was born on July 23, 1928. She provided a great deal of comfort to a mother still mourning and grieving her lost child.
Sorrow struck again when Laura, just a toddler, was run over by a truck loaded with ice. It broke both her legs and took many months of anxious care to bring her back to health.
The family remained at that location about three and a half years. Thelma started school and another baby girl arrived, Donna Rae, August 1, 1930. In 1931 the family moved again to a larger home in Salt Lake City where James Allen, the last child was born, March 30, 1933. All of the children were born at home except Thelma who was born in a hospital. The doctor came to the house and a nurse, Sister Tanner, assisted him with the delivery. She stayed until the baby was ten days old.
Raising a family during the depression years was not easy. Nettie had to call upon her resources many times. Weeks before Christmas she would stay up late at night sewing, making over old clothes, so each of the children could have a new outfit for Christmas. Many of the toys were repainted, and dolls tenderly dressed the week before Christmas. The same sewing sessions went on before Easter. Summers were spent canning fruit and preparing for the coming winter. Doctors were rarely called upon for illnesses, but faith and prayers and the administration by the Priesthood were the healing powers called upon. She was proud of her family and home and always worked hard to make things nice.
The years while the family were growing up were busy years, but Nettie still remained interested and active in community and church affairs. She was P.T.A. President of Edison Elementary School and Jordan Junior High School. Many of her community activities were reported in story and picture in the local newspapers. She was a member of the "Women's Legislative Council" and served as election judge many years.
She taught Mutual and Relief Society and is a member of the Daughters of the Pioneers. She was always artistic and completed a course in floral design, after which she made floral arrangements for several businesses. For many years she took in sewing of slipcovers and drapes. She was famous among her friends and family for her homemade whole wheat bread and dill pickles.
She is a grand, old lady and at this writing is still living in the old family home of 48 years. Lee passed away at their home. He apparently died of a heart attack in the early hours of the morning.
History of Parley Pratt Brough (1902-1974) and Ann Karen Andreason (Boyd)
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & Descendants
Originally written by Laura Adeline Brough Bradshaw in 1979Parley was the sixth son of Samuel Richard Brough and Phoebe Adeline Cherry. He was a pretty little baby with auburn curly hair. Mother was president of the Primary during his baby years, and he was loved by all of the children. He was a happy, good little boy. He attended school at Lyman, Wyoming and had many chores to do around the home and farm as he was growing up. He worked with father and his brothers doing the many things necessary on a big ranch. When he was about 18, father sold all his property at Lyman and moved to Bountiful and bought a rock home and 10-12 acres of ground from Mr. Holbrook. Parley helped his father with the work of truck gardening. plowing, planting, harvesting and selling. They would prepare the produce in the evening, load it in the truck and at 4:00 AM each morning he would drive into Salt Lake City to the Farmer's Market and stay until the load (whatever it was) was sold. If any vegetable or fruit products were left he brought it to us.
He was very active in his church duties both at Lyman and Bountiful. In Lyman he would go on horseback many miles to do his home teaching and other duties. While in Bountiful he was made an Elder. He was a very handsome young man and enjoyed life.
On June 29, 1929 he married Ann Karen Andreason Boyd, who was a widow with four young children. After a few years in Bountiful they moved back to Lyman, Wyoming and took up a homestead near Church Buttes where he worked very hard, farming, gardening, clearing sagebrush and grease wood off the land before he could plant anything. He also did a lot of carpenter work helping the other homesteaders building homes and other buildings needed on a farm. He also (as a carpenter) helped with the building of the original and later the present Little America Motel complex in Wyoming. His homestead was close to his brother, Thomas J. Brough, and they spent much time working and helping each other.
On April 22, 1962, his wife "Carrie" died of a heart attack. A few months after her death he sold his ranch and came back to Salt Lake and lived with his sisters Laura and Nettie, but he just wasn't happy without work to do, so he went up to Oregon where his three step-daughters lived. Loree Backes at Grant's Pass, Ora Smith at Klamath Falls, and Eva Atkinson at Lakeview. He was very happy with the girls and they were very kind and good to him. He stayed with each one a few months at a time. He used his experience as a farmer at each home. Their yards and gardens were beautiful. The yards looked like parks, and the gardens were weedless and produced bountifully. He was a tireless and hard worker and a perfectionist in whatever· he did. While at Klamath Falls living with Ora, he helped build the L.D.S. chapel and also helped with the church building program at Grant's Pass, while living with Loree. He shared with others the talents God had given him. His grandchildren loved him and always called him Grandpa Parley. They all missed him very much after his death. A funeral service was held in Klamath Falls and one in Bountiful. He was buried in the Bountiful Cemetery next to his brother Wallace.
Note: Ann Karen Andreason could also be spelled Annie Karren Andreason; and she had children from her first marriage.
Marriage Notes for Parley Pratt Brough and Ann Karen Andreason-682
No children.
History of Horace Brough (1892-1964) and Martha Lufkin Phippen
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Horace Brough, eldest son of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on 16 Nov 1892.
His mother, Eliza, attended the dedication of the Salt Lake City Temple when Horace was just six months old, and she took the baby with her to attend this important event.
In the spring of 1893, Samuel Richard took Eliza and Horace to live in Wyoming where he had taken up some land. Eliza and the baby, Horace, first lived in Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Samuel Richard took up quite a lot of land in Lyman, Wyoming. He built their first house there for them, and they continued to reside there for many years.
Early years found Horace attending school in Lyman, Wyoming and some in Paris, Idaho.
While they were living in Lyman, Wyoming his father, Samuel Richard was bishop for twenty years, so that had some influence on his life.
While growing up, he did all the things a farm boy is required to do. Such as: tending sheep, feeding lambs, tending cattle, tending and milking cows, handling horses, chickens, plowing, etc. He helped his father also with raising the crops, haying, thrashing, and hauling wood from the canyon. Once on such a trip he got his foot crushed. Another time when little, he was playing in the hay in a manger, and a horse bit his face. That required several stitches. His father did the sewing his mother said she couldn't stand to be there, so she went to the house and waited until it was allover. Doctors were not easy to get those days.
He liked to play baseball and was a fast runner in foot races. He would have twenty-five cents to spend on the 4th of July, so was very careful how he spent it. Maybe it would go for five cent's worth of jelly beans or jaw breakers.
While a young boy he was taken to Yammerer, Wyoming to the Golden Rule Store, which is now J. C. Penney Co., to buy his first long pants suit, and it happened to be the FIRST BOYS LONG PANTS SUIT sold by the J. C. Penney Co.
He loved to go hunting sage hens or wild chickens, that made many good meals.
Later he went to the Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah with several of his friends from Wyoming. While at college he took up cabinet building.
He met and married Martha Lufkin Phippen who was also attending Brigham Young College. Martha was born 9 Nov 1892 at Logan, Utah. They were married in the Logan L.D.S. Temple on 19 Dec 1912.
They soon went to Lyman, Wyoming where Horace built them a house. Some of his brothers met them at the train with a white top wagon.
The canvas sides were rolled down to keep the cold wind out. There were quilts to wrap around them, but it didn't seem to help a lot. When they got to Horace's parents home it was so cold they had quilts and blankets hung at the windows and doors. These had frost at the edges, and when they stood by the cook stove you could see their breath. Everyone took bottles of hot water and hot bricks to bed with them, or would use them in their beds first to get them warm. Martha had her heel frozen while walking a short distance. Horace's father would come in sometimes from doing the chores with frost and icicles on his mustache. Sure was cold at times.
They lived there a short time, then moved to Logan, Utah where their first girl, Susan, was born. When their second girl, Margaret, was small he bought some land in northern California, with his father. While on the farm, Horace's brother Reed came to live with them for a while. It was at this time that Reed received his call to the 1st World War.
The farm was soon sold, and they came to Utah to live. They have lived in Bountiful, Utah most of their married life. Horace loved to go early with his family to the canyon and cook breakfast. It was usually Mueller Park, which is east of Bountiful.
Horace had four brothers and three sisters. His brothers were, Reed, Chester, Hyrum and Lester. His sisters were Viola, Eveline and Emily. They have all passed on now but Hyrum and Lester. All the family enjoyed spending time with each other, and they spent many happy hours as a family while growing up.
When four years old, Martha moved to Carey, Idaho with her parents in a covered wagon. Her father, Adelbert Smith Phippen and her mother, Susan Aseneth Lufkin Phippen. She had two brothers: George Adelbert Phippen and Guy Townsend Phippen. They too have passed on.
She lived on the farm in Idaho until 16 years old. Then they moved back to Logan, Utah to take care of her grandparents, George and Martha Lufkin.
Horace worked for Howard McKean, the Church Architect, who sent him to St. George to remodel the temple there. It was there that their last girl, Dixie, was born on 4 Dec 1937. She was named Dixie because of being born in Utah's Dixie. President Snow of the St. George Temple officiated when she was named. Later Horace worked on the Salt Lake and Manti Temples.
Brother McKean also sent him to Treasure Island in California, to build a replica of the Mormon Tabernacle for the World's Fair in 1939. Then when they had one in New York he was also asked to go there for the World's Fair to build another replica. Many of the churches and seminaries in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding area were some of the buildings he erected.
When Brother McKean died, Horace did his own contracting and building. Sometimes he would have five or six projects going at the same time. I remember him awaking early to go to the garage to sharpen a saw, or finish a cabinet they needed in one of the buildings. He would then eat breakfast, and on to work for the day. Evening often found him in the garage doing more finish work.
Horace suffered a stroke on 6 Dec 1958, and until the time of his death on 13 Aug 1964, he spent his time at his home in Bountiful, Utah. He worked up until the time of his stroke, and was active in many church functions. He was president of the 70's Quorum for the Bountiful First Ward, a High Priest, also served with the Sunday School Superintendency. The 17th of August they held his funeral in the Bountiful First Ward, and he was interred at the Bountiful Memorial Park on Oak Street. He was 71 at the time of his passing.
Martha's early schooling was in Carey, Idaho in a one-room school house where they used a bucket of water and a long-handled dipper for everyone in the school. An old-fashioned school bell was used to call the children in for their studies and from recess. There were four grades in the one room. Later the younger grades had a room of their own.
In the winter, large sleighs and horses were used to haul people around. These were lined with straw and many times the horses had bells on them. Martha walked nearly a mile to school on country roads. There was lots of snow, and high drifts in the winter. She remembers picking armfuls of blue bells and other wild flowers for Decoration Day. She likes to do temple work, read church books, oil paint, do embroidery and crochet, etc.
Martha was secretary and librarian in Primary and taught for seven years. Secretary for the choir, and sang in it. Also, Mother's Choir, chorister in Relief Society, chorister in Daughter's of Utah Pioneers, and was Captain and held other positions in it. She was also a Relief Society teacher for many years.
Horace was a religious man and loved to read the scriptures. He and his wife Martha often went to the temple in Salt Lake City. They both held many church jobs that had responsibility with it.
Horace took pride in his work, and could be trusted to always do a good job. He and his brother Lester were building partners for a while. His brother Chester worked for them sometimes. Horace taught their son Rodney the trade, and he is now a contractor and builder like his father.
Martha still lives in Bountiful in the home he built for them. Horace and Martha had ten children. They lost two little girls while still babies, with the other eight still living. Horace and Martha have 25 grandchildren, 57 great grandchildren, and one great, great grandchild. They have had two daughters and several grandchildren go on missions. Some of them to foreign countries.
History of Franklin Reed Brough (1894-1965) and Della Beatrice Eschler
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Franklin Reed Brough, the second son of the plural marriage of Samuel Richard Brough and Eliza Ann Carter, was born June 6, 1894 in Fort Bridger Valley in the area now known as Lyman, Wyoming. It was during this year that Samuel Richard Brough harvested his first crop from the homestead that he settled on in the spring of 1892.
During the first two winters of Franklin Reed's life, his father placed his mother, Eliza Ann Carter and sons Horace and Reed in a good home in Fort Bridger, just four and one-half miles from his homestead. He then returned to Porterville, Utah where his first family was. There he spent the winter months and early spring working in the timber and then each year late in the spring, he took seed and equipment and returned to his homestead in Wyoming to plant crops and to continue to clear his land for additional farm land and pastures.
It was on this homestead where Franklin Reed Brough grew up into young manhood. He was taught at an early age how to work and share responsibilities along with his brothers and sisters in helping his father and mother develop their homestead into a productive farm where eventually both wives and families were able to live together in love and harmony. It was at his mother's knee where he and his brothers and sisters were taught the gospel and learned to love the Lord and how to communicate with Him in their daily prayers.
Franklin Reed Brough obtained all of his education at the school in Lyman which only covered up to the eighth grade. About the only time he spent in school was during the months when the weather was too bad to be working on the land. Franklin Reed's mother saw to it that their education was continued at home after it was too dark to work outside. Many hours were spent with the children all together learning about the gospel and life at their mother's knees. Their father had many responsibilities which kept him occupied and away from the family much of the time, being called first as presiding elder of the saints in this scattered area
and then later on and for many years as the bishop of the ward.The story has been told that in order to keep meat on the table, Samuel Richard Brough would allow each one of his sons to take turns taking his l2 gauge shotgun to hunt for grouse and sage hens. If they failed to bring in a bird for each shell that they used, they would miss their next turn. This created quite a challenge for the boys and they really learned how to hunt and to become quite good marksmen. In order to get their limit and not have to miss a turn they would wait until they could get two birds together and then save the shell for the next time around when the hunting wasn't quite as good.
When Franklin Reed was twenty years old he was called on a mission to serve in the Western States Mission. He served a very successful mission and received his honorable release in July of 1916. During the early spring of 1917 his father and brother, Horace, went to California and purchased some land with the potential of moving to that area. In April his father contracted a rail car and sent Franklin Reed and Horace with two teams of horses, seed and equipment to begin farming in Eureka, California. Franklin Reed spent the summer as a foreman of a haying crew and in September returned to Lyman, Wyoming, as it was decided not to keep the land in that area of California.
On October 3, 1917 Franklin Reed Brough married Della Beatrice Eschler in the Salt Lake Temple and returned to Lyman to make their home. He first became acquainted with his wife when they were both serving as missionaries in Denver, Colorado. His wife Della was originally from Paris, Idaho. Just thirteen days after they were married Franklin Reed received his call to the military service. He had registered in California while working there during the summer, so by the time the call came to them, the company was ready to leave. He was able to telegraph and get permission to be sent from Uintah County, Wyoming, which delayed his call until April, 1918. He left on April 6, 1918 and was sent to Camp Lewis, Washington for training and then later to Fort Riley, Kansas. In November he was sent over seas and finally returned the following May of 1919. During his stay in the service, his wife Della stayed with her sister, Amelia, in Raymond, Idaho.
Franklin Reed then went to work for Fred Evans, a brother-in-law, in Raymond, Idaho and worked all that summer until November and then returned to Lyman, Wyoming where they lived with Franklin Reed's parents until January when his wife went to Logan, Utah to stay with her mother as she was expecting her first child.
Their first boy, Eugene Eschler, was born on February 16, 1920 in Logan, Utah. All during the winter of 1919-1920 Franklin Reed worked in the timber in Wyoming and then in the spring, went to work for a Mr. Kelly who had purchased his father's place in Lyman, Wyoming. He worked for Mr. Kelly until the fall of 1921. He then freighted coal all that winter.
On January 6, 1922 his second son, Robert Samuel was born in Lyman, Wyoming and in April it was discovered that Franklin Reed had an inward goiter. He sold one of his teams and with that money went to Salt Lake City, Utah where he was operated on. He had quite a miraculous recovery and three weeks later returned to Lyman, Wyoming where he went to work for Ernest Roberts, a rancher in that area, until the fall of 1923 when they moved to Green River, Wyoming, to accept a job with the Union Pacific Railroad.
On December 12, 1923 their third son, Rulon Reed was born in Logan, Utah, where his wife Della had gone to be with her mother when their child was born, and then they returned to Green River, Wyoming.
During the time that they lived in Green River, Franklin Reed served as a counselor in the bishopric and then on the Stake High Council. On April 24, 1926, their fourth child and only daughter, Ethel was born. During all of this time, Franklin Reed was steadily progressing while working for the Union Pacific Railroad; and in the spring of 1927 they offered him a job in Ogden, Utah, as Coal Chute Foreman at their big rail center there. He accepted and moved his family there during the summer of 1927.
Because of the long hours that he worked, seven days a week and twelve hours a day, Franklin Reed's church assignments were restricted to those that he could perform at night. He was given the assignment to work with the Senior Aaronic Priesthood members and was instrumental in bringing many of these brethren back into church activity. When his work assignment was changed to five days a week he was soon called to be bishop of the Ogden 27th Ward. He served as bishop for almost six years.
Shortly there after he was released and was called to serve on the Stake High Council and then on September 30, 1962, he was called and set apart as Stake Patriarch by Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley. This was his final church assignment as he passed away on the morning of October 2, 1965, while enjoying the great out-of-doors hunting with his oldest son and grandsons. He was one who really appreciated nature and its beauties. He taught his boys how to enjoy them and many hours were spent together with them and their families enjoying the blessings of this great country.
During the final years of their lives, both Franklin Reed and his wife were given many honors for their devotion to their church assignments. He was made an Honorary Master M-Man and she was made an Honorary Golden Gleaner. Many lives were affected for good by this devoted man and his equally devoted wife.
Ogden, Utah was their final home, for on October 23, 1965, he passed away, and just over nine and one-half years later his lovely wife passed away on June 26, 1975. Both are buried in the Altorest Mortuary in Ogden, together with their oldest son who preceded his mother's death by just three years.
In the 1900 U.S. Census, "Viola Brough" is listed as being "2" years old and born in December 1897, born in Wyoming, and residing with her parents, Samuel and Eliza Brough, and siblings, in Election District 7, Uinta, Wyoming.
In the 1910 U.S. Census, "Eliza V. Brough" is listed as being "13" years old (born about 1897), born in Wyoming, and residing with her parents, Samuel and Ann E. Brough, and siblings, in Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming.
The marriage of "Viola Elia [Elisa] Brough" and "Charles Millard Massey" is listed in the online BYUI Western States Marriage Record Index (ID# 606874), which states that they were married 6 Dec 1916 in Salt Lake County, Utah, and that "Viola Elia Brough" was "19" years old (born about 1897) and her residence was "Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming:", and that "Charles Millard Massey" was "24" years old (born about 1892) and his residence was "Vernal, Uintah, Utah". (Online source: http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=606874.)
In the 1920 U.S. Census, "Viola Massey" is listed as being "22" years old (born about 1898), born in Wyoming, married and residing with her husband, Chas. M. Massey, and their daughter, Winona, in Election District 3, Washakie, Wyoming.
"Viola B. Massey" died prior to the 1930 U.S. Census--which was taken on 25 April 1930--as that census lists her husband, "Charles M. Massey", as a "Widower", who was residing with his three children (Wynona, Melvin and Lloyd), in Election District 3, Washakie, Wyoming.
The gravesite of "Viola B. Massey" is listed in FindAGrave, Memorial # 8611363, as being located in the Bountiful Memorial Park Cemetery in Bountiful, Davis, Utah. The gravestone of "Viola B. Massey" lists her as being born on 18 December 1896 and having died on 9 February 1930--although the transcriber of her gravestone mistakenly recorded her as having died on 9 February 1936.
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History of Eliza Viola Brough (1895-1930) and Charles Millard Massey
Quoted from the 1980 RBFO book: Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors & DescendantsHISTORY:
Eliza Viola Brough was the third child and first daughter of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter. Viola was born December 18, 1896, in Lyman, Wyoming.
Viola had a happy childhood growing up with her many brothers, sisters and parents. She was always active in all church and school activities. She often took the leading male part in plays. She played the organ and piano and was asked to accompany many individuals and groups.
Remarks taken from President M. Melvin Rollins, former bishop of Lyman Ward:
"I have been trying to recall in my mind Viola's early childhood days. It was my privilege to have lived a neighbor in her ward and to have become very closely associated with this good woman. I have known her since she was a girl and have also known the family for a number of years. I was a counselor to her father in the Lyman Ward and for several years before her marriage was her bishop.
"You will agree in every community there are men and women whose lives have enriched our lives and have played a great part in the life of the community in which they lived, because of the unselfish spirit that they possess and the willingness they have to serve others. Such was Sister Viola. I presume I will always call her Viola, her first name, because as children, we ran together and called each other by our first names. It was her lot and mine to have been raised in a pioneer community. I think that is one of the reasons, too, that this sister obtained the unselfish attitude she had because of the circumstances under which she lived and also the splendid parentage from which she came.
"It was her lot even as a child to help make the desert blossom like a rose because her own father was selected as a leader in the community where sagebrush grew, and where there were no fences and bridges; and a new community was made where a few years before there was a wilderness.
"I can think of no girl in the Lyman Ward, no young woman who was of greater service in the various organizations of the church and social activities in the community. No one was more greatly loved or more popular with all the people, both young and old, than was Sister Viola Brough. She had a very sweet disposition, and made friends with everyone. Particularly she seemed to be very successful with children, which was natural because of her nature, and children learned to love her. And I think she has a host of them now who have grown up and who are growing up who will always revere her memory, So I feel she was an extraordinary person even though she perhaps did not attain to high positions, neither in the church nor the community in which she lived, nor perhaps did she crave honor or position, but she was a real neighbor, a true friend to humanity.
"Because of these sterling qualities which she possessed, she was outstanding in the community in which she lived. So when I learned today that men and women, old and young, came fifty miles and more from the community surrounding where she lived just to view her body and express how much they loved her and what she meant to them in that community, I was not surprised. She meant a lot to the Lyman community, as even now many remember her as a Sunday School teacher, a Primary teacher and an officer in the M.I.A. She had a strong testimony of the gospel as anyone I have ever had the privilege to meet." (Viola's funeral February 16, 1930).
Viola married Charles Millard Massey December 6, 1916 in the Salt Lake Temple. Millard was a U. S. Surveyor so for a few years she lived with him wherever he was working. They neither one wanted this type of life, so he quit his job and they applied to homestead on a ranch in Wyoming on the North Wood River. Their two oldest children were born Winona and Melvin.
Winona was born December 19, 1918 at the height of the flu epidemic that swept America following World War I. Viola was so ill and weak that if without her mother Ann Eliza and her husband Millard's constant care, love and nursing she would never have lived. When Viola was well enough to leave, Ann Eliza took the small premature baby by train back to Lyman to take care of till Viola was strong enough to travel. Viola then came and spent months in gaining complete recovery. Ann Eliza came again when Melvin was born March 14, 1921. Viola's youngest child, Lloyd Brough Massey, was born at her parents' home in Bountiful on May 14, 1924.
Viola and Millard loved their children very much, and they lived a happy, wonderful life together even if their home was a humble, poor one. It was always filled with happiness and concern and care that their children were taught honesty, truthfulness and a high regard for education. Winona recalls that when trees were planted, her parents would remark, "The fruit we sell from these trees will help to pay for your college education." It was sad their hopes never came to pass, as Viola died of pneumonia February 9, 1930. Millard was very ill too; and though he lived to be 77 years old, he never seemed to recover and face life as he had before Viola's death. His plans always held forth to make it in mining so he could repay his sister Jessie who raised his three children his other brothers and sisters and Viola's family. As is so often the case he was never able to. He went to his death sad and unhappy that his hopes were only dreams.
Both Viola and Millard were kind, gentle loving people. They came from this type of people and family meant so much to them.
Winona attended Brigham Young University, graduating in June of 1942 with a B.S. degree and holding both elementary and secondary teaching certificates. She was privileged to have her loved relatives attend the commencement exercise-including her grandfather Samuel Richard Brough, Uncle Arthur and Aunt Eveline Bjorkman, Uncle Myron and Aunt Emily Holbrook, Aunt Jessie Massey Wall, Aunt Hazel Massey Gurr and daughter Joy. Winona was the first granddaughter of Samuel Richard Brough to graduate from college. Winona taught social studies in the Uintah School District for twenty-six years. Most of the teaching was at the high school and later the junior high school in Vernal, Utah. Enjoyable, wonderful full years of service. She left Vernal in June of 1969 and has lived in southern Utah the remaining years. First few months in Washington, then Hurricane, a year and a half in Salt Lake City, then they moved back to southern Utah to a home in LaVerkin across the Virgin River from Hurricane. She is married to Ivan Augustus Odle, known to all as Bud. They had no children.
Melvin Richard Massey lived in Montana most of his adult life. He was married to Elaine Schlachter. They had six children: Rance Leon, Shelley, Victoria (Vicky), Loralee, Milton, and Gayle Ann. Melvin was in the mining business. He was an exceptionally hard worker and was mechanically inclined. He operated large machinery. He was a good welder, thanks to Uncle Horace Brough's help to get this training.
Melvin died October 1, 1976. At the time of his death he was married to Charlotte Massey and they had one daughter, Ronalee. Melvin is buried in Sheridan, Montana in the beautiful Ruby Valley.
Lloyd Brough Massey married Marion Schmerbach and they have one daughter, Victoria Lynn (Vicky). They live in South Lake Tahoe, California. Lloyd has his own business "The Massey." He has done very well in his business. He has a lovely home in an ideal location within a few miles of beautiful Lake Tahoe. He undoubtedly has the most brilliant mind of the three of us. A proud sister's remark, isn't it?
As is the usual case in families, Viola's three children have looks and appearances, expressions and temperaments of both parents. They are proud of their heritage and feel so fortunate to have had stalwart ancestors. Both the Brough and Massey grandparents came west because of the church.