Note: Maxine Forsgren had a son, Peter, whom Evan adopted.
Thomas Brough states in his journal that Samuel Richard Brough was born at "1 A.M. on the 20th of August 1857 at Rocky Branch near Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois."
Material for most of this Family Group Record of Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter comes from the 1980 RBFO book: "The Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947, His History, Ancestors and Descendents."
History of Samuel Richard Brough
Quoted and edited from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestry & Descendants".
On August 20, 1857 Samuel Richard Brough, the third son and fourth child of Thomas Brough and Jane Patterson, was born in Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. His father was engaged in farming, and it was on this farm that Samuel and his three younger sisters were born. In June 1864 Samuel's father and mother prepared for their long-awaited crossing of the "Great American Plains" to Utah. This was to be the final leg of the journey that began back in England in 1856 when this young family left to join the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in far-away Utah.
With a yoke of oxen to pull their wagon and one milk cow to provide milk for their family, this young family of eight started out with other families to spend the next three and one-half months crossing the plains to Utah. During all of this time they were exposed to Indians, buffalo and other hazards common to the wilds of America in those early days. They finally arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah on September 18, 1864. About half-way across the plains one of the oxen died so the milk cow, together with one of their neighbor's cows, was yoked up in place of the oxen and the one remaining ox was placed in lead of the cows, and the journey was completed successfully in this manner.
It was so late in the year that there wasn't enough time for them to build a cabin, so a room was dug in the side of a hill (12 feet by 14 feet) and covered with brush and dirt. It was in this room where Samuel, his father and mother, four sisters and one brother spent their first winter in Utah. It was extremely cold, with snow sometimes reaching a depth of four feet.
The following spring, Samuel's father, who had been a brick mason in England, made the brick and built a two-room brick home for his family and then started to farm some of the land that he was able to obtain. For the next seven years Samuel spent his time working on the farm and helping in his father's brickyard. He enjoyed trapping and was able to catch many red fox, mink and other fur-bearing animals during the winter months.
For two years, after Samuel turned 14, he spent working on the freight road using oxen to move his loads. When he turned 16 he went to Wyoming to work on a flume, twenty-eight miles long, which brought timber from the mountains down into the valley to make lumber, railroad ties and charcoal. He spent his 18th year working as a carpenter for the Utah and Northern Railroad in Idaho.
Young Samuel Richard Brough returned to Porterville that next year and worked in a lumber mill hauling timber from the mountains for the Union Pacific Railroad. During his 21st year he worked for his father in his brickyard getting half of the brick that he made for his own use. He used this brick to build a home for himself. Late in October of his 22nd year, he went to Colorado and New Mexico to help build the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
In the spring of 1881 he returned home to Porterville, and on June 2, 1881, he married Phoebe Adeline Cherry in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah. They then returned to Porterville to the home that Samuel had built to start their married life together. Here Samuel was able to buy some farm land and also one-half interest in a lumber and shingle mill. By hiring some help he was successful in operating his farm and mill. During the winter season he hauled timber out of the mountains to his saw mill.
During the next four and one-half years he continued in this line of work and started to raise a family. Three sons were born during this period of time. Thomas James Brough was born on February 19, 1882, Jesse Samuel Brough was born on February 12, 1884, and Ernest LeRoy Brough was born on December 12, 1885.
The year 1886 was to be a memorable year in the life of Samuel Richard Brough, for on October 1, 1886 he received a call from President John Taylor to leave for a mission to Great Britain. He was to leave on October 26, 1886. Just five days before he boarded the steamship Alaska for England, he took Ann Eliza Carter to the Logan Temple and married her for time and all eternity to live in plural marriage with his first wife, Phoebe Adeline Cherry. In order to cover his mission expenses, he had to sell half of his farm and some cattle, leaving his mill property to be rented or sold. Ann Eliza Carter returned to her family to await his return from his mission.
Elder Samuel Richard Brough left for Great Britain on October 26, 1886, going by way of New York and on the Steamship Alaska, arriving in Liverpool, England on November 10, 1886. He was sent immediately to South Wales where he served as a traveling elder for almost one and one-half years. Many were the faith-promoting experiences that he had with the Welsh people.
After serving as a traveling elder he was called to preside over the Welsh Mission. After serving in this capacity for almost one year he was called to preside over the Irish Mission until June 17, 1890, and then he was called to preside over the Scottish Mission. Each call was for a particular purpose and he witnessed the hand of the Lord in and during each call. On September 29, 1890, he received an honorable release. However, before returning to the United States, Samuel traveled to Longton, Staffordshire, and stayed for seventeen days (November 8-24, 1890) with his aunt, Mary Ann Brough and her husband Robert Evans, in their home at "58 Lord Street, Woodhouse N Longton". While staying in Longton, Samuel collected genealogical and historical information on his Brough ancestry. He also visited the Parish Churches in Longton, Trentham, Dresdon and Stoke-on-Trent, and gathered many family names (of deceased relatives) for eventual LDS temple work. He returned to Utah in December 1890. The following hand-written account is taken from Samuel's missionary journal and details what he did during the days he stayed with Mary Ann Brough and Robert Evans in Longton, England:
Saturday, November 8, 1890: Today I started to Longton [Staffordshire, England] at 12 Noon. Arrived ok about 3 PM. I met some of my relatives. I was kindly received by all. I went to Aunt Mary Ann [Mary Ann Brough Evans], my father's sister and abode with her and [her] family. I spent a pleasant evening.
Sunday, November 9, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and go [went] to chapel with Uncle Robert Evans and from there to Aunt Martha's [Martha Lowe Paterson] residence (she being the widow of Uncle Robert [Watson] Paterson my mother's brother). She was delighted to see me. I ate dinner with her and had a chat for several hours during which time she informed me it was just 39 years to-day since she and Robert [Watson Paterson] were married and narrated the incident quiet fully which was interesting to me. At 6:30 she and I went to chapel and spent quite an interesting evening. I returned to Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans].
Monday, November 10, 1890: Today I attended to some correspondence and then visited Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] (Widow), Uncle Richard Brough's wife, and ate dinner and was very kindly received. I then started in search of records from which to obtain the genealogy of my Father's house. I first went to the Registrar of Longton District but his records only dated back to 1837 which date was too recent. I then went to the minister of St. John's church and arranged with him to search his records from 1764 (the oldest he had) to 1837 for ten shillings. I then went back in town and purchased some note books and prepared for genealogical search in the morrow. I returned to Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans, at] 58 Lord Street Woodhouse North Longton and brought up [to date] my journal and wrote a letter to my mother.
Tuesday, November 11, 1890: Today I searched the baptismal records from 1764 to 1837 inclusive and secured over 60 names of Brough. In the evening I recorded some in my family register and wrote two letters to America.
Wednesday, November 12, 1890: Today I went to Stoke to try and arrange with the parish registrar to search the records of the parish. I found it would cost me about four shillings [?] for each name and concluded to search through the church records as they are much cheaper. I went to [the] Trentham church minister and arranged to search the records of that church next Friday 14th inst[ant]. I returned to Longton and in the evening visited some of my relatives in company with Cousin Thomas Evans [the son of Robert Evans and Mary Ann Brough].
Thursday, November 13, 1990: Today I attended to considerable correspondence and in the evening went to the landmark where my Grandfather (Richard Brough) and some of his uncles made brick about 60 years ago. I gathered a few leaves to place in my scrap book as a Token of Remembrance of the noted place. I then went to Rev. W. B. Smith and arranged with him to search the baptismal records of St. John's church from 1837 up to the present. I expect to commence my search next Monday, November 17th 1890.
Friday, November 14, 1890: today I walked to Trentham 3½ miles to search the records of the Trentham church and on my arrival learned the minister was called away on business. I then walked back to Longton and searched the records in St. John's church from 1839 to 1890 and obtained some names. The minister of this church then kindly gave me a very favorable recommend to the minister of St. James church in this city. I went to 58, attended to some correspondence and retired.
Saturday, November 15, 1890: Today I went to St. James church and presented my recommend to the minister and at once got the privilege to search the records from 1834 to date--all they had. I obtained a good few names without the least charge and on my departure I thanked the minister most kindly and gave him two shillings and six pence and also presented him with a copy of the Voice of Warning of which he accepted with thanks and I left him feeling first class. I returned to 58 and replied to some correspondence and had a chat with Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] and retired.
Sunday, November 16, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and met in chapel with some of the followers of Smeedenbury. I observed their manner of worship... I spent some time with Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and her folks in the afternoon and in the evening met with some who termed themselves a Christian Society....
Monday, November 17, 1890: Today I called on Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and took dinner with her and then visited cousin Lucy [Lucy Smith-the daughter of Joseph Hinton Smith and Adry Brough] and had a nice chat with her and family. Then to Thomas Bott (Aunt Besse's brother) [and the brother of Elizabeth Bott--who married Samuel Brough, and the son of Benjamin Bott and Elizabeth Abbotts] and gave him some tracts and sold him a Voice of Warning. I had a lengthy chat on the Gospel.
Tuesday, November 18, 1890: Today I presented Uncle Robert [Evans] and Aunt Mary Ann [Brough] Evans with a most beautiful album written on the fly leaf Compliments of nephew Samuel Richard Brough and then attended to considerable correspondence and in the evening spent a little time in town [and] went to Dresden in search of genealogies. I met with some encouragement. I was accompanied by John Kelsal [John Kelsall--the husband of Ann Myatt (Brough)].
Wednesday, November 19, 1990: Today I sought after genealogy and in the evening presented Cousin Ann Kelsal [Ann Myatt (Brough) Kelsall, who was] (married) with a beautiful album written in the fly leaf Compliments of cousin Samuel Richard Brough to cousin Ann Kelsal Nov 19th 1890. I then went to Aunt Martha Paterson [Martha Lowe Paterson and] I made a similar present with the same inscription on the fly leaf except the name. Both were accepted with heartfelt thanks. I spent some time with Aunt Martha [Lowe Paterson] and returned to 58.
Thursday, November 20, 1890: I rise [arose] in good time and walked to Trentham four miles and searched the records of the same back to 1525 being ably assisted by Rev. E. B. Pigott who I found exceeding kind and would not charge me anything whatever for his service. I thanked him very kindly and on leaving presented him one copy each of the Book of Mormon and Voice of Warning. He accepted them with thanks and spoke especially of the Book of Mormon and said he would place it in his library and take good care of it. I gathered 101 names and left rejoicing and considerably satisfied.
Friday, November 21, 1890: Today I spent a good portion of the time in arranging and recording the genealogy gathered in this part, and in the evening went to the theatre with four of my second cousins (ladies) and we had a splendid time [and] the play was titled The Still Alarm. I called on Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and gave her one shilling worth of ale. She accepted it with many thanks. She is over three score years old and receives much comfort from her pipe.
Saturday, November 22, 1890: Today I finished my labors in recording and arranging the genealogy I have gathered on my Father's house and have labored faithful and traveled a great deal from place to place and person to person. I have gathered near 200 names and feel quite pleased with my labors. My mind is now at rest and I feel willing to return home. In the evening I visited some of the Bott's, Aunt Besse's [Elizabeth Brough-who married Samuel Brough] relatives. Also called on a photographer and purchased a portrait of Longton Park and St. Johns Church where my Grandmother Brough was buried and sold him [the photographer] a Book of Mormon and gave him some tracts and left him feeling quiet satisfied with the purchase and our conversation. I returned to 58 and Uncle Robert Evans made me a present of a nice pair of winter gloves.
Sunday, November 23, 1890: B[roke] fast this morning and met with Aunt Rose [Rosannah Myatt Brough] and relatives at her respective residence and too dinner and had a good chat about matters generally. Cousin Ann [Ann Myatt (Brough) Kelsall] gave me a nice China Mustache Cup and Saucer and 6 China Tea Cups and Saucers. Also sent a rare beautiful cup and saucer to my mother and her daughter gave me a very pretty China Cup and Saucer for my wife. I accepted all with kindness and many thanks. I bid them farewell and left them in profound friendship. I called on Cousin Lucy [Lucy Smith-the daughter of Joseph Hinton Smith and Adry Brough] and family [and] had a pleasant visit and bid them adieu. Then called on Aunt Martha Paterson and had a friendly chat and she gave me a pair of winter gloves for each of my little boys and a pair for my mother. Also sent a present and token of respect to my wife and sisters Emily and Alice. A young man who was lodging with Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] gave me a most beautiful China Mustache Cup and saucer elaborately decorated with gold and flowers and written on it in gold letters (A present to Samuel Richard Brough by John Lester). I gave him a Book of Mormon and Voice of Warning and accepted all with grateful heart and bid them farewell. I went to the place the Latter-day Saints met for worship 55 years ago when my Father and Mother were here. I returned to 58 [and] had a chat with Uncle [Robert Evans] and Aunt [Mary Ann Brough Evans] about the folks and affairs at home and retired.
Monday, November 24, 1890: I received a pair of socks for myself and a nice apron for my wife as a present from Aunt Mary Ann [Brough Evans] and packed up some of my presents and sent to Liverpool by R.R [railroad] and bid the folks farewell and many thanks for all kindness. I started for Nottingham by Rail Road and arrived about 2 PM and went to the Nottingham Cemetery and visited Jesse Yelton Cherry's grave (my wife's uncle) [who was born in 1840 in Illinois and died in 1865 in Nottingham]. He died while here on a mission preaching the Gospel in May 20th 1865 aged 25 years. I spent a pleasant evening with the Brethren here and had a chat about the folks and affairs at home.
Tuesday, November 25, 1890: Today I wrote a letter to James J. Cherry my Father-in-law and Brother to the above deceased. I took [a] train for Swansea, South Wales, at 11:50….
On December 6, 1890, Samuel Richard Brough left England and arrived in Porterville, Utah on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1890, having been away from home and his family just over four years and two months.
In the spring of 1891 he hired out to Henry Florence and Sons Company and ran their sawmill at Hilliard, Wyoming. During the winter of that year he made railroad ties in Hardscrabble Canyon and sold them to the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
In the spring of 1892, he took his wife Ann Eliza Carter and went to Fort Bridger Valley to use his homestead rights and he settled on 160 acres in what is now known as Lyman, Wyoming. During the summer he chopped cedar posts and hewed house logs in the mountains and sold them to settlers in the valley. During the fall he built a log house 16' by 24' on his homestead. He then took his wife back to Salt Lake City where his first plural child, Horace, was born on November 16, 1892.
In the spring of 1893 he took his wife Ann Eliza Carter and son Horace and returned to his homestead in Wyoming. At that time he was set apart by President Cluff of the Summet Stake as Presiding Elder of the scattered saints in that area. He was able to clear some eight acres with a grubbing hoe and in the fall, seeded them into winter wheat thus starting his first crop on his homestead. In November he located his wife and son in Fort Bridger for the winter and returned to his family in Porterville and worked in the timber during the winter.
In the spring of 1894 he returned to his homestead with a team and farm seeds for the season and found his wife and son in good health. He proceeded to clear more land and seeded for a larger crop on his homestead. In June his second son of his plural marriage, Franklin Reed, was born. He raised a crop of wheat, oats, rye and potatoes. In the fall he again placed his wife Ann Eliza Carter and two sons in a good home in Fort Bridger for the winter and returned to his family in Porterville, Utah. On November 18, 1894, his first daughter, Laura Adeline, was born to his first wife Phoebe Adeline Cherry. During the winter he worked in the timber in Hardscrabble Canyon.
For the next two years he followed this plan, returning to his homestead in the spring and clearing more land and planting and harvesting more crops and helping the saints in that area, and then returning to Porterville during the winter, working in the timber and spending some time in the temple working on the names that he had gathered while on his mission.
In the spring of 1898 he built a house on his homestead for his first wife and family, and for the first time he had all of his family together. On June 8, 1898, he was ordained the bishop of the Owen Ward (now renamed the Lyman Ward) by Apostle John Henry Smith, and he served in this position until released on February 22, 1916. During all of this time he held many positions of leadership in that community, even serving on the Stake Board of Education for the Woodruff Stake while he was still bishop. By the early 1900's, Samuel had acquired 560 acres of land in and around Lyman, Wyoming. Also, during his stay in Wyoming, Samuel gave some of his properties to the town of Lyman, Wyoming, with the restriction that "liquors" were never to be made, sold or distributed from such properties.
Between 1917 and 1920, his properties in Wyoming were sold and those who were still living at home moved to Bountiful, Utah where they engaged in truck farming. This also enabled Samuel Richard Brough and his wife to do more work in the temple for their kindred dead. On April 18, 1921 he was called to be a temple worker in the Salt Lake Temple which was to last for many years, even until 1946. Also, from 1918 to 1938, Samuel served as the first president of the Brough Family Organization--which today is one of the oldest and largest ancestral family organization and surname associations in the world.
Samuel Richard Brough was really a remarkable man. One of the outstanding characteristics of this great pioneer was that throughout the many years that he served as a temple worker, even up to the last few years of his life, he always managed to spend the summers working and saving so that he could continue to spend the majority of his time during the remainder of the year working in the temple and fulfilling his calling as a temple worker.
Samuel Richard Brough raised an exceptional family. Many of his sons became LDS bishops, high councilmen and stake presidents in their own areas. One son was ordained a patriarch. His girls were also very active and served the Lord as they had been taught by their mothers. On May 8, 1947, he passed away, having spent some 89 years, 8 months and 18 days on this earth. He raised 15 of his children to manhood and womanhood, having lost two sons in their infancy. He sent five of his children on full-time missions besides serving more than four years of his life on a mission in England. He left one of the greatest heritages for his posterity, and his two wonderful companions added their greatness to his. How blessed we are to be able to call them our ancestors, for they left us a heritage that cannot be equaled today.
History of Ann Eliza Carter
Quoted and edited from the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough, 1857-1947: His History, Ancestry & Descendants".
Written by Samuel Richard Brough.HISTORY:
Ann Eliza Carter was born February 20, 1866 in Round Valley, Morgan County, Utah, to Samuel Carter and Sarah Davis Carter who taught her the gospel from infancy. She was a polygamist child and fully converted to that order of marriage. She was always ready to testify that she knew that it was instituted of God, and was taught and practiced by all His prophets in all the ages of the world.
She was always very spiritual minded all of her life, and in her teens was active in Sunday School and all of her church duties and was modest and lady-like in all her acts in company with few or many. As she matured in life she took great interest in church affairs and was active in the M.I.A. and a sincere student of the gospel. She was a strict observer of the laws and the requirements and manifested honesty and sincerity in the worship of the Lord. She always honored and respected her parents and would not associate with rude or light-minded company. She would not take part in plays or games that were not becoming to a lady. When she arrived in womanhood, all who knew her gave her credit of being a good faithful Latter-day Saint.
I was a little older than she, and I knew her from her childhood to womanhood. At this time the L.D.S. Church was preaching and practicing plural marriage, commonly called polygamy. I was fully converted to this principal and I decided I would obey it in my younger days. That I could care for and raise a family was my earnest desire. I talked the matter over with my wife, Adeline, and we agreed to try and live it, and decided that Eliza Carter was a good, clean and faithful girl, and if she was willing to join us, we would prepare to embrace that order of marriage as soon as convenient. I now found that the responsibility was all upon me. I tried to raise enough courage to call on Eliza, and in a reasonable time I did so. She treated me very kindly, and during our conversation I told her the purpose and object of my visit and suggested that she give it serious thought, and that I would call and see her next week and get her decision on the matter.
I called the next week as per agreement, and to my joy and happiness she told me she favored the proposition. As I have already stated, she was a polygamist child and converted to this principle. We had a friendly visit and talked over the matters in general and agreed to marry, if all were willing. I told her of my mission call, and I would soon have to start on it.
She stated that her soul's desire was to marry a good, faithful husband and fill out her creation and serve the Lord, and was willing to make any sacrifice to accomplish her desire. I informed my wife, Adeline, of our conversation and suggested that she go with me and be present when I asked Eliza's parents for their consent for Eliza and I to get married. She consented to go and later on we called at Eliza's home and talked the matter over together with her parents and all were agreeable.
On October 20, 1886, we went to the Logan Temple and were married in the House of the Lord [on October 21, 1886] and by His authority for time and all eternity. I did not do anything without the knowledge and consent of my wife Adeline. I was not deceptive in any way to her or Eliza, or to Eliza's parents. After our marriage she went to live and work with her parents until my return from my mission.
On October 6, 1886, I received a call from President John Taylor, President of The Church of Jesus Christ [of Latter-day Saints] to go on a mission to preach the gospel [of Jesus Christ] to the world. I was to leave for the British Mission on October 26, and so I prepared to leave on this date. On the way home from the Logan Temple, Brother Durrant, a counselor to the bishop of our ward, and a good friend boarded the train at Echo and told me an officer of the law was waiting at the Morgan station to arrest me for entering plural marriage. He had taken a risk of his own safety in doing this, as he was disguised as a tramp. He had left a horse tied up in the canyon and suggested that I take it and go on to Salt Lake City and go on my mission. I decided to do as he advised and jumped off the moving train, rode the horse to Salt Lake City and reported for my mission. I never saw Eliza again for over four years and could only write to her as Miss Carter in all of that time.
I spent over four years serving the Lord and preaching the gospel to the world and finally returned to my family on December 31, 1890. All this time my wife Eliza kept clean from sin and reproach and had been true as steel to me and received me with the greatest love and friendship a woman could possible manifest. Many times during my absence Eliza had spent the night alone on the oak-covered hill back of her home in fear of being held in evidence against me for entering the principle of plural marriage. She never knew when an officer would come, day or night, and so she had to be constantly on her guard.
One time a Patriarch came to their home, as was the custom of that time, to give a blessing to each member of the family. Eliza's father was scribe, and as he gave Eliza her blessing, he said "thou was promised to one before thou left the Heavens and thou hast already given him your hand." He stopped, thinking that he had made a mistake, having no idea she was not a single member of the family, but her father said, "Go on, you are alright." This was a great comfort to both Eliza and I and also her parents that we had done as the Lord wanted when we entered this marriage principle.
It now became my duty to prepare a home for her. I had spent all my means on my long and expensive mission. I had a home for my wife Adeline and her three children in Morgan County, Utah.
Having my homestead right as a native-born American citizen, and learning of some government land being recently opened in Bridger Valley, Wyoming for homestead entry, I went there at once and took up a homestead of 160 acres of good farm land. It was in a wild condition and in a frontier country, but Eliza agreed to go with me and together we would build our home and begin our family life.
I was young and able to work twelve hours a day in clearing greasewood and sagebrush off my homestead and preparing it for cultivating. The Lord blessed our labors, and soon we built us a good home where happiness and true love prevailed.
In due time the Lord blessed us with a fine son (Horace) perfect and healthy who brought with him a great boon of happiness. Eliza was overjoyed and said she could cry glory to God on High. I have now become a mother in Israel, the great blessing for which I have made sacrifices and labored for four years.
We lived in this country for twenty-eight years, and during this time the Lord blessed us with six sons and three daughters, all perfect and healthy, for which we were most thankful. We reared them in a good, clean farm home free from the evils and vices of city life. They had good school[ing], gospel and church teachings and privileges, and good, clean social life. One boy (Golden) died in infancy. The other eight children lived to maturity, and we ever praised their clean, happy farm life of their younger days. After much thought and consideration, we sold our home and property there and moved to Bountiful, Utah, where we bought a home and engaged in truck gardening.
A few years after changing our home and climate, Eliza had several spells of severe sickness. She was faithful and active in the church and held several positions. All through her life she taught and encouraged her children to be faithful in all gospel duties.
Her children were her joy all her married life, and very frequently would speak of their good traits of character and say, "God has blessed me with good, clean children and given them faith in the gospel. They have been active in His service all their lives. Not one has brought shame upon my name, or even caused me to regret I have given them birth. They all have a name and standing in the church. My sons have all received the Holy Priesthood and are honest men of faith and integrity. My daughters are women of renown, clean, virtuous and loving mothers. All my family [is] a blessing to me and I thank God for them and the conviction I have of their association in the future."
She finally had an attack of pneumonia to which she succumbed and left us on December 13, 1932. She was laid away in the Bountiful Cemetery by a host of friends and loved ones with the greatest love and respect.
I wish to say one more word to her children. You should ever cultivate a feeling of gratitude to God that you have been permitted to come to this mortal life, through the lineage of so noble and faithful a woman as your mother proved to be. She planted the love of the gospel in your hearts before she gave you birth. She taught you its laws and principles by precept and example from your infancy to the day of her death and was laid in the tomb with the hope of a glorious resurrection. She was a devoted mother and a true and faithful wife. She left a vacant place in my heart that no woman in this world can fill. God bless her memory.
Signed: Samuel R. Brough.
Marriage Notes for Samuel Richard Brough and Ann Eliza Carter-37
The birth and marriage dates of Ann Eliza Carter come from the Logan Polygamist Sealing Record available from the Special Services division of the LDS Temple Department in Salt Lake City, Utah, which information was provided by officials of the LDS Temple Department to R. Clayton Brough on July 9, 2005.
Thomas Brough was born in Lane End, Staffordshire, England, on 22 October 1832. This location is often referred to as "Lane End, Longton". For example: "Lane End, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Confusion often arises over the location and names of Lane End and Longton. Originally they were two separate and contiguous townships which were incorporated in the Borough of Longton in 1865. Longton was adjacent to Longton Hall and encompassed the Longton Hall Colliery and Brickworks. Even in 1900 the area was mainly fields. Lane End was centered on the area around Market Street and the bottom part of Anchor Road and contained the Markets, Churches and main potworks." (Source: http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/009.htm)
The birth of Thomas Brough has been listed several different ways: 1) Thomas Brough's live LDS Endowment record (recorded by clerk Joseph F. Smith, FHL Special Collections Film # 183405, pages 90-91) took place on 2 February 1867 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah, and stated that he was born on 22 October 1833 in Longton, Staffordshire, England, and that he was baptized into the LDS Church on 7 January 1848 as the son of Richard [Brough]and Mary "Hollison"; 2) For decades various family sources have stated that Thomas Brough was born on 22 October 1832 in Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire, England; and 3) Thomas Brough's gravestone in the Porterville Cemetery in Morgan, Utah, has engraved (as of 2005) that he was born on 22 October 1831. At the present time (April 2009), RBFO genealogists, Clayton and John Brough, have accepted the birth date of Thomas Brough as being 22 October 1832, because this date preceeds Thomas's recorded christening date (in the Church of England) of 11 November 1832 at St. John, Lane End, Longton (FHL film # 1471087, p.103), and because Thomas's parents christened their other children within two months of their birth. Unfortunately, a number of Thomas Brough's descendants keep re-doing his LDS Temple work (which as of April 2009 has been done over 140 times) even though Thomas Brough was an LDS Bishop and the IGI contains numerous listings for Thomas's different birth-years (of 1831, 1832 and 1833). Needless to say, descendants of Thomas Brough do not need to spend their time re-doing Thomas Brough's LDS ordinance work based on their findings of his different birth-year listings. If LDS members of the RBFO wish to do LDS ordinance work for their deceased ancestors, they should first check the need and validity of doing so with the RBFO LDS Temple Coordinator-- via email at: officer@broughfamily.org.
The christening of Thomas Brough is listed in the parish register of St. John, Longton, Staffordshire, England (FHL Film # 1471087, Item #1), which states that he was christened on 11 November 1832 as the son of Richard and Mary Brough of Lane End, and that Richard Brough was a "Brickmaker".
According to research done in the 1970's by RBFO Genealogists, Thomas Brough was baptized into the LDS Church on 7 January 1848 by Elder Wesley Meigh of the LDS Longton Branch, Staffordshire, England.
In the 1841 Census, (taken on 6 June 1941), Thomas Brough was about 9 years old (born about 1832), born in Staffordshire, and working as a "App. Potter", while residing with his parents, Richard and Mary Brough, at: 28 Sutherland Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
In the 1851 Census (taken on 30 March 1851), Thomas Brough was about 18 years old (born about 1833), born in Trentham, Staffordshire, unmarried and working as a "Coal Miner", while residing with his parents, Richard and Mary Brough, at: 109 Stone Road, Blurton, Trentham, Staffordshire.
The 1851 marriage certificate of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" was obtained from the GRO in England in March 2012 by the Brough Family Organization, and stated that they were married by Banns on 9 November 1851 in St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; that they were "Both [of] Fenton"; that Thomas Brough was of "full age" and a Bachelor and Collier, and that his father was Richard Brough, a Brickmaker; and that Jane Pattison was of "full age" and a Spinster, and that her father was George Pattison, an Engineer. The marriage was witnessed by Robert Pattison and Martha Lucy Lowe. Also, the marriage of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" is listed in the online FreeBMD and Staffordshire BMD.
Immigration Record: Thomas Brough (with a listed age of 22) and his wife, Jane (age 21), and their two children: Jane (age 2) and William George (an Infant), left Liverpool, England, on 25 May 1856 aboard the ship "Horizon" and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Massachussettes, arriving in Boston on 30 June 1856. Prior to leaving England, Thomas Brough listed his former British address as: "20 Pitt Street, Burslem, Staffordshire". (See FHL Film # 25691, page 179.)
1860 USA Census (dated 11 July 1860) for Upper Alton, Madison, Illinois, USA (FHL Film 0803208, p.233-236):
Thomas Bouff(?) Brough, 28, Male, Coal Miner, Estate: $50, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be England]
Jane, 29, Female, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be Scotland]
Jane, 7, Female, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be England]
John(?) [should be William], 5, Male, birthplace: Illinois(?) [should be England)
Samuel, 3, Male, birthplace: Illinois
Addie E, 1, Female, birthplace: IllinoisBurial Information: Porterville cemetery grave location: Plot V/9.
Extensive research by the Brough Family Organization:
https://sites.google.com/view/brough-family-organization/england-staffordshire/thomas-brough.
Find A Grave Memorial# 12809119.History of Thomas Brough
Edited by R. Clayton Brough, John M. Brough and Marie B. Nielson, July 2005. Edited from material that originally appeared in the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors and Descendants", pp.11-13.
Thomas Brough was born on 22 October 1832 to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston in Longton, Lane End, Staffordshire, England. He was christened on 11 November 1832 at St. John Parish Church (of England) in Lane End, Longton. In 1840, Thomas Brough's father, Richard Brough, had joined the L.D.S. Church, and about nine years later Thomas also joined the L.D.S. Church, being baptized on 7 January 1849 by Elder Wesley Meigh of the L.D.S. Longton Branch.
As a young man, Thomas worked in the coal mines around Longton and practiced the trades of masonry and carpentry. In fact, British Census records state that Thomas was working as a "App. Potter" when he was only "9" years old and as a "Coal Miner" when he was "18" years of age.
On 9 November 1851, Thomas Brough married Jean (Jane) Paterson (who was born on 12 April 1830 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland) at St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. At the time of their marriage Jane was not a member of the L.D.S. Church, but she later joined the L.D.S. Church in January 1855. During the first four years of their marriage, Jane gave birth to three children: Thomas (who died shortly after his birth), Martha Jane, who was born on 21 July 1851, and William George, who was born 2 July 1855.
In the latter part of 1855, Thomas, Jane and their two children, along with Thomas's younger sister Elizabeth (born 1834) and her husband Samuel Cartlidge, prepared to leave their native England to emigrate to America, where they wanted to join the rest of the L.D.S. "Saints" in Utah.
On 25 May 1856, Thomas and Jane and their two children, along with Elizabeth and Samuel Cartlidge, left on the ship Horizon, from Liverpool, England. The Horizon was commanded by a Captain Reid, and the "Mormon company" aboard this vessel was under the direction of Elder Edward Martin. Aboard the Horizon there were 692 adults, 136 children and 26 infants, totaling 854 passengers. Thomas, Jane and their children paid their own fares and were therefore booked as ordinary passengers, while the majority of the other Mormon immigrants aboard were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund of the L.D.S. Church. The ship Horizon reached Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on 30 June 1856.
Shortly after arriving in the northeastern United States, Thomas's money ran out, and he and Jane were forced to stop in Pennsylvania where Thomas then worked just long enough in the surrounding coal mines to obtain enough money to get him and his family to Madison County, Illinois.
By the middle of 1857, Thomas and Jane Brough had settled in the area of Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. There Thomas rented a farm, and for the next seven years, from 1857 to 1864, he grew corn and raised hogs and other farm animals. (The 1860 Census shows Thomas and Jane and their four children--Martha Jane, William George, Samuel Richard and Adria Elizabeth-residing in the area of Bethalto "Madison [County], Illinois," and the "value of [their] personal estate" at about "$50".) While in Madison County, Thomas's wife Jane gave birth to four more children, with their first child born on American soil being Samuel Richard Brough, born on 20 August 1857. Three other children followed the birth of Samuel: Adria Elizabeth, born 13 October 1859; Mary Ann, born 17 March 1862; and Emily Ellen, born 23 March 1864.
By the year 1864, which was in the midst of the U.S. Civil War, Thomas had secured enough money to purchase a wagon and team of oxen in which he could take his growing family from Illinois to Utah. His means of transportation included a lumber wagon, two yoke of oxen and a cow. Thomas, Jane and their six children started out toward Utah on about 15 June 1864 in a wagon train of approximately one hundred wagons. Three months later, on 18 September 1864, Thomas, Jane and their children arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. (The town of Porterville was first settled by Sanford Porter in 1860.)
Before leaving Illinois, Thomas sold nearly all of his family's furniture and instructed Jane to pack only their clothing and food, including some wheat, in their wagon for their trip westward. However, Jane took the liberty to pack an old clock between some clothing which Thomas never knew about until they arrived in Utah. This timekeeper later proved to be the only functioning clock in the pioneer settlement of Porterville during the first year after their arrival in Utah.
After traveling about five hundred miles from Illinois, one of Thomas's oxen took sick and died. Thomas had a cow which he had brought along for his children to have milk, so one of his emigrant friends who also had a cow helped him yoke their two cows together to Thomas's wagon so the Broughs could continue their journey westward. Thomas eventually made a single yoke for the mate of the ox who had died and put him along on the lead of the wagon to guide the two cows.
During their journey westward, Jane placed the milk from their cow in a crock jar in their wagon, whereupon the shake of the wagon churned a little pat of butter which the family enjoyed each day as they traveled towards Utah.
When Thomas and Jane arrived in Utah in September 1864, fall had already set in and Thomas was not able to build his family a home before winter set it. So he made a 12' by 14' dugout in the hillside near Porterville and placed his family within this shelter for their first winter in Utah. During this first winter, Thomas was not able to get any flour for his family, so until spring arrived his family utilized the wheat they had brought from Illinois, and the children took turns grinding the wheat through a small coffee mill for their bread.
Following his first winter in Utah, Thomas located some good farm land, and by the fall of 1865, he and his younger brother Samuel had built a small adobe one-room home for Thomas's family in Porterville. Within two more years, he utilized the brickmaking skills he had learned and practiced in his native England, and had built two brick rooms adjoining his adobe home. These were the first bricks made in Porterville, and Thomas, along with his brother Samuel, manufactured other bricks which were used in constructing a number of buildings in the Porterville area. In fact, the first LDS Chapel in West Porterville was built in 1870 from bricks made by Thomas Brough. This brick Chapel--which existed from 1870 to 1899--measured "20 x 30 feet, and 12 feet to the square" and served as both a "meeting house and school" for people living in West Porterville.
In addition to manufacturing bricks in Porterville, Thomas, and his brother Samuel, also operated a brickyard in east Kaysville between about 1867 and 1881. This large brickyard was known as the "Brough Brick Yard on Cemetery Street." Today, the ground on which the Brough Brick Yard was once located is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is occupied by the LDS Kaysville Crestwood Wardhouse--located at 1039 East Crestwood Road, Kaysville, Utah.
Thomas was a very industrious and honest man. After moving to Porterville, he cultivated his land with the aid of oxen and harvested his crops with a scythe and a grain cradle. He was a true leader and lived the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the best of his ability. He never touched liquor or tobacco and kept the Sabbath Day as a holy day. He was first ordained a Branch President in 1875 and later as the first Bishop of the new West Porterville Ward when the Morgan Stake was organized in 1877. He held this position as Bishop of the West Porterville Ward until his death in 1882.
Thomas was a devoted husband and a kind father. He loved and cherished his wife, and the two of them righteously raised seven children. Their last child, Alice Eliza, was born on 18 June 1866 in Porterville.
At the age of almost 50, and in the first week of May 1882, Thomas was suddenly struck by appendicitis. Two days later he died on 6 May 1882. However, before passing away, he called all his children to his bedside, except his son William George who was then on a mission, and, like Jacob of Old, gave each of his children a dying father's patriarchal blessing.
Following the death of Thomas, his wife Jane resigned herself to her position and determined to make the best of it. Prior to her husband's death, Jane had practiced midwifery and nursing in Porterville for ten years, and after her husband died she continued to practice frontier medicine in the community for the next 21 years. She received her certificate to practice obstetrics from the State Medical Board of Utah and proved very successful in this specific profession, bringing scores of babies into the world. She was a real pioneer doctor, using herbs, bark and roots she gathered from the surrounding mountains and plains to treat the various illnesses of her patients. She often treated her patients without asking for or receiving remuneration of any kind. She was truly loved by everyone in her community. Jane was also an excellent seamstress, homemaker and diligent temple worker. She taught all of her children the Gospel and the importance of living a righteous life, and all of her children remained faithful Latter-day Saints to the end of their lives.
Jane died 21 years after her husband's death, at the age of 73 on 6 August 1903 in Porterville, Utah, and is buried alongside her husband in the Porterville Cemetery.Obituary of Thomas Brough, taken from the Millenial Star 05/24/1882 (via Ancestry.com):
"Died at West Porterville, Morgan County, Utah, May 6th, 1882, Bishop Thomas Brough. He was born in Longton, Staffordshire, England, October 22nd, 1831; joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in an early day; was married to Miss Jane Patterson, of the above named place November 9th; 1851; emigrated to America in 1856; resided in Madison County, Illinois, eight years; came to Utah in 1864, and located at Porterville, Morgan County; was called to preside over the West Porterville Branch in 1873, and when the Morgan Stake was organized, was ordained a Bishop to preside over the West Porterville Ward, which position he honorably filled until he was called to pass behind the vail. He was the father of nine children-four sons and five daughters-of whom seven are still living and in good standing in the Church. His eldest son William G., is now on a mission in Pennsylvania.
Brother Brough was a man of sterling integrity, upright in his dealings with his fellow-man, honest in his purpose, unwavering in his faith, and zealous for the cause he had espoused, faithfully performing the duties of his office according to the wisdom and ability he possessed, ever striving to keep within counsel. Was a faithful husband and a kind father. He called all of his family together, with the exception of one on a mission and blessed them one by one, like unto Jacob of old, charging them to be honest and virtuous, seeking the things of righteousness, and not to set their hearts too much on the things of this world, and when asked a day or two previous to his death if they should send for William, his answer was no; he is doing a good work, let him stay at his post until he is honorably released. He remarked, we fear death, but Oh, how sweet. I am going with the armor of righteousness on, and will soon take up my labors again; gave instructions as to the funeral services and burial, and retained his reasoning faculties until he fell asleep to await the resurrection of the just. Thus passed away a good man surrounded by his family and friends."
(Note: According to extensive research, Thomas Brough only had three sons, not four sons as stated above in his obituary.)
The birth and christening of "Jean Paterson" is listed in FamilySearch (via Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950), which states that she was born on 12 April 1830 and christened on 9 May 1830 in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and that her parents were "George Paterson" and "Jean Watson".
In the 1851 Census for Scotland, "Jean Paterson" is listed as being 20 years old (born about 1831), "Unmarried" and a "Scholar" and residing as a "Lodger" in the home of George Rennie (age 50) and Isabella (age 40) at: 36 West Russell Street, Barony, Blythswood, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The 1851 marriage certificate of "Thomas Brough" and "Jane Pattison" was obtained from the GRO in England in March 2012 by the Brough Family Organization, and stated that they were married by Banns on 9 November 1851 in St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; that they were "Both [of] Fenton"; that Thomas Brough was of "full age" and a Bachelor and Collier, and that his father was Richard Brough, a Brickmaker; and that Jane Pattison was of "full age" and a Spinster, and that her father was George Pattison, an Engineer. The marriage was witnessed by Robert Pattison and Martha Lucy Lowe.
Research Note: Jean Paterson has been known for many years as "Jane Patterson" to a number of RBFO family members. However, recent research has shown her original name as "Jean Paterson". For example, the Barony Parish Record (in Scotland) and the LDS Church Extraction Program lists her name as "Jean Paterson." Therefore, RBFO Genealogists have now listed her name as "Jean or Jane Paterson" in RBFO files.
Research Note: On 2 February 1867, Jane Brough performed her live LDS Endowment (as recorded by clerk Joseph F. Smith, FHL Special Collections Film # 183405, pages 90-91) in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah, and stated that she was born on 12 April 1831 in Glasgow, Lanarks, Scotland, and was baptized into the LDS Church in 1853 as the daughter of George Paterson and Jane Watson.
History of Jean (Jane) Paterson
Edited by R. Clayton Brough, John M. Brough and Marie B. Nielson, July 2005. Edited from material that originally appeared in the 1980 RBFO book "Samuel Richard Brough 1857-1947: His History, Ancestors and Descendants", pp.11-13.
Thomas Brough was born on 22 October 1832 to Richard Brough and Mary Horleston in Longton, Lane End, Staffordshire, England. He was christened on 11 November 1832 at St. John Parish Church (of England) in Lane End, Longton. In 1840, Thomas Brough's father, Richard Brough, had joined the L.D.S. Church, and about nine years later Thomas also joined the L.D.S. Church, being baptized on 7 January 1849 by Elder Wesley Meigh of the L.D.S. Longton Branch.
As a young man, Thomas worked in the coal mines around Longton and practiced the trades of masonry and carpentry. In fact, British Census records state that Thomas was working as a "App. Potter" when he was only "9" years old and as a "Coal Miner" when he was "18" years of age.
On 9 November 1851, Thomas Brough married Jean (Jane) Paterson (who was born on 12 April 1830 in Barony, Lanarshire, Scotland) at St. Peters Church, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. At the time of their marriage Jane was not a member of the L.D.S. Church, but she later joined the L.D.S. Church in January 1855. During the first four years of their marriage, Jane gave birth to three children: Thomas (who died shortly after his birth), Martha Jane, who was born on 21 July 1851, and William George, who was born 2 July 1855.
In the latter part of 1855, Thomas, Jane and their two children, along with Thomas's younger sister Elizabeth (born 1834) and her husband Samuel Cartlidge, prepared to leave their native England to emigrate to America, where they wanted to join the rest of the L.D.S. "Saints" in Utah.
On 25 May 1856, Thomas and Jane and their two children, along with Elizabeth and Samuel Cartlidge, left on the ship Horizon, from Liverpool, England. The Horizon was commanded by a Captain Reid, and the "Mormon company" aboard this vessel was under the direction of Elder Edward Martin. Aboard the Horizon there were 692 adults, 136 children and 26 infants, totaling 854 passengers. Thomas, Jane and their children paid their own fares and were therefore booked as ordinary passengers, while the majority of the other Mormon immigrants aboard were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund of the L.D.S. Church. The ship Horizon reached Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on 30 June 1856.
Shortly after arriving in the northeastern United States, Thomas's money ran out, and he and Jane were forced to stop in Pennsylvania where Thomas then worked just long enough in the surrounding coal mines to obtain enough money to get him and his family to Madison County, Illinois.
By the middle of 1857, Thomas and Jane Brough had settled in the area of Bethalto, Madison County, Illinois. There Thomas rented a farm, and for the next seven years, from 1857 to 1864, he grew corn and raised hogs and other farm animals. (The 1860 Census shows Thomas and Jane and their four children--Martha Jane, William George, Samuel Richard and Adria Elizabeth-residing in the area of Bethalto "Madison [County], Illinois," and the "value of [their] personal estate" at about "$50".) While in Madison County, Thomas's wife Jane gave birth to four more children, with their first child born on American soil being Samuel Richard Brough, born on 20 August 1857. Three other children followed the birth of Samuel: Adria Elizabeth, born 13 October 1859; Mary Ann, born 17 March 1862; and Emily Ellen, born 23 March 1864.
By the year 1864, which was in the midst of the U.S. Civil War, Thomas had secured enough money to purchase a wagon and team of oxen in which he could take his growing family from Illinois to Utah. His means of transportation included a lumber wagon, two yoke of oxen and a cow. Thomas, Jane and their six children started out toward Utah on about 15 June 1864 in a wagon train of approximately one hundred wagons. Three months later, on 18 September 1864, Thomas, Jane and their children arrived in Porterville, Morgan County, Utah. (The town of Porterville was first settled by Sanford Porter in 1860.)
Before leaving Illinois, Thomas sold nearly all of his family's furniture and instructed Jane to pack only their clothing and food, including some wheat, in their wagon for their trip westward. However, Jane took the liberty to pack an old clock between some clothing which Thomas never knew about until they arrived in Utah. This timekeeper later proved to be the only functioning clock in the pioneer settlement of Porterville during the first year after their arrival in Utah.
After traveling about five hundred miles from Illinois, one of Thomas's oxen took sick and died. Thomas had a cow which he had brought along for his children to have milk, so one of his emigrant friends who also had a cow helped him yoke their two cows together to Thomas's wagon so the Broughs could continue their journey westward. Thomas eventually made a single yoke for the mate of the ox who had died and put him along on the lead of the wagon to guide the two cows.
During their journey westward, Jane placed the milk from their cow in a crock jar in their wagon, whereupon the shake of the wagon churned a little pat of butter which the family enjoyed each day as they traveled towards Utah.
When Thomas and Jane arrived in Utah in September 1864, fall had already set in and Thomas was not able to build his family a home before winter set it. So he made a 12' by 14' dugout in the hillside near Porterville and placed his family within this shelter for their first winter in Utah. During this first winter, Thomas was not able to get any flour for his family, so until spring arrived his family utilized the wheat they had brought from Illinois, and the children took turns grinding the wheat through a small coffee mill for their bread.
Following his first winter in Utah, Thomas located some good farm land, and by the fall of 1865, he and his younger brother Samuel had built a small adobe one-room home for Thomas's family in Porterville. Within two more years, he utilized the brickmaking skills he had learned and practiced in his native England, and had built two brick rooms adjoining his adobe home. These were the first bricks made in Porterville, and Thomas, along with his brother Samuel, manufactured other bricks which were used in constructing a number of buildings in the Porterville area. In fact, the first LDS Chapel in West Porterville was built in 1870 from bricks made by Thomas Brough. This brick Chapel--which existed from 1870 to 1899--measured "20 x 30 feet, and 12 feet to the square" and served as both a "meeting house and school" for people living in West Porterville.
In addition to manufacturing bricks in Porterville, Thomas, and his brother Samuel, also operated a brickyard in east Kaysville between about 1867 and 1881. This large brickyard was known as the "Brough Brick Yard on Cemetery Street." Today, the ground on which the Brough Brick Yard was once located is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is occupied by the LDS Kaysville Crestwood Wardhouse--located at 1039 East Crestwood Road, Kaysville, Utah.
Thomas was a very industrious and honest man. After moving to Porterville, he cultivated his land with the aid of oxen and harvested his crops with a scythe and a grain cradle. He was a true leader and lived the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the best of his ability. He never touched liquor or tobacco and kept the Sabbath Day as a holy day. He was first ordained a Branch President in 1875 and later as the first Bishop of the new West Porterville Ward when the Morgan Stake was organized in 1877. He held this position as Bishop of the West Porterville Ward until his death in 1882.
Thomas was a devoted husband and a kind father. He loved and cherished his wife, and the two of them righteously raised seven children. Their last child, Alice Eliza, was born on 18 June 1866 in Porterville.
At the age of almost 50, and in the first week of May 1882, Thomas was suddenly struck by appendicitis. Two days later he died on 6 May 1882. However, before passing away, he called all his children to his bedside, except his son William George who was then on a mission, and, like Jacob of Old, gave each of his children a dying father's patriarchal blessing.
Following the death of Thomas, his wife Jane resigned herself to her position and determined to make the best of it. Prior to her husband's death, Jane had practiced midwifery and nursing in Porterville for ten years, and after her husband died she continued to practice frontier medicine in the community for the next 21 years. She received her certificate to practice obstetrics from the State Medical Board of Utah and proved very successful in this specific profession, bringing scores of babies into the world. She was a real pioneer doctor, using herbs, bark and roots she gathered from the surrounding mountains and plains to treat the various illnesses of her patients. She often treated her patients without asking for or receiving remuneration of any kind. She was truly loved by everyone in her community. Jane was also an excellent seamstress, homemaker and diligent temple worker. She taught all of her children the Gospel and the importance of living a righteous life, and all of her children remained faithful Latter-day Saints to the end of their lives.
Jane died 21 years after her husband's death, at the age of 73 on 6 August 1903 in Porterville, Utah, and is buried alongside her husband in the Porterville Cemetery.
Marriage Notes for Thomas Brough and Jean Paterson-48
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-515
"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).
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-512
No children.