Copied from Francom & Cottle Family History, 1794-1991. Pg 125, 129.

Pg 125

September 15. 1851, we [Joseph Warren Wadsworth and family]  arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. We stayed in Salt Lake City one day and night. A meeting was held the next day, where Brigham Young expressed his delight that they had such a pleasant journey. He also told them he wished them to join a company going to colonize a town at the mouth of Weber Canyon, then called East Weber (now called Uintah). He advised them not to unpack their wagons but rest a day or so. We joined the company and traveled on, leaving September 18, 1851 and arriving at East Weber September 20. 1851. Soon after that, the call came for all new settlers to pay up their tithing and start anew. Father turned out one yoke of oxen and a good rifle to pay his tithing.

We settled down for the winter in East Weber, getting along fairly well, although we were troubled some with the Indians, who were very treacherous then. We were afraid to leave the women and children alone while we went to the canyon for logs to build our house.

Pg 129

After staying in Salt Lake City long enough to become rested. Brigham Young told Abigail [Higley]’s father [Myron Spencer Higley] to take his family and move on, with a colony of saints, to settle in a small place called East Weber (Uintah) in Weber Canyon. After working their weary way along the mountain side for three days, they reached their destination. Here they erected a new home in Weber Valley near the sawmill. Their 11th and last child, Myron, was born in Uintah. Utah.

In Uintah they endured great hardships. The weather was extremely cold, as it was early spring. They had to live in dugouts made in the hillside and in covered wagons, which furnished very poor shelter, since the covers were so badly worn and torn after their long trip across the plains. There too they were threatened by Indians and were often afraid to go to bed at night for fear of an attack. Food supplies became very low and hard to obtain and they were often hungry and cold.

After reaching East Weber, Abigail met and married Joseph Warren Wadsworth. They were married by his father who was Bishop of east Weber at that time.