Agnes Beverage Morgan

LIFE STORY AGNES BEVERAGE MORGAN

     Agnes Beverage Morgan Cook was born at Chapel, Scotland, on 20 August 1846.  She came to Utah in 1850 when just four years old with her parents, William Morgan and Martha Matilda Nelson with the Ox Team Immigrants.  She was married to James Nathaniel 

Mary Maria

Cook 25 December 1862, at Chicken Creek, Juab County, Utah.  To this union was born the following children.  Martha Jane, Mary Maria, Agnes Francetta, William Morgan, Ella Catherine, James Edward, Sina May, Nora Emma.  She had 57 grandchildren, 107 great grandchildren, and 11 great great grandchildren at the time of her death.

Agnes Francetta

Ella Catherine

James Edward

Sina May

Nora Emma

     After her marriage her home was at Nephi, Utah.  She passed through many exciting experiences with the Indians.  Her husband served in the Black Hawk War.  She passed through many trials incident to pioneer life in Southern Utah.  She washed the honey dew from the leaves of trees to obtain sweetening for fruit, dug segoes for food and gathered alakili or saleratus

saleratus

for use in making bread.   She and her husband moved from Vernal, Utah, to Iona, Idaho, in 1899, then a few months later, they moved to Rexburg, where they resided until the spring of 1903.  They then moved to Labelle, Idaho, where her husband died on the 30th day of September 1911.  She then lived in Taylorsville, Idaho, then in 1918 she moved to Ririe, Idaho, where she resided until she died 14 May 1934, in her home next to her daughter, Nora's  home at the age of 88.

     Her parents lived at Levan, Juab County, Utah, and it was there her father and mother died.  Her father on the 24

Levan, Utah

November 1876 at the age of 59 and her mother on the 26 December 1906 at the age of 82.

     As has been mentioned above, she and her husband passed through many trials and tribulations during their early married life, but as her daughter, Nora knew her, she was always cheerful, kind, and considerate, and very faithful in the Church.  While at Nephi, she had many experiences with the Indians.  Many times the Indians would come to her house and beg for biscuits and would become very angry if they didn't get them.  Later while living in Vernal, Utah, the Indians were on the warpath and trailed past their door, but her husband had labored with them and knew their language and was very kind to them, so they never molested them, but instead traded blankets for sugar and flour.  She also lived for a time in Blue Valley, Wayne County, Utah. 

Blue Valley, Utah

Every fall the floods would come and flood over the banks of the river and take the crops.  Many times she and her husband had to flee with their young children and their cattle to the hills for safety.  Nora, her daughter, said that she used to put her and her brothers and sisters to bed so that she could wash the clothes they had on and iron them so they would have something to wear to school the next day.  Her three oldest daughters were married within 3 months of each other which was very hard on her.  He daughter, Jane, after being married for one year gave birth to a baby girl and died.  She then took the baby and raised her until she was four years old, when she died.  She used to tell her granddaughter, Thelda Moss, many times how little Jane became ill and one day she told her grandmother that her mother was coming to take her home and she died right after that.  She lost her oldest son at the age of two and her daughter, Sina, in 1919, at the age of 29.

     She endured many hardships but remained faithful to the end.  She was called upon to part with her husband which was very hard for her to bear.  She work as President of the Primary for many years and also labored in Relief Society.  She learned nursing and until she was quite aged spend much of her time caring for the sick.  She was bedfast 8 weeks before her death and during that time bore her testimony to us many times.

     She also told us (her children) she held communion with her loved ones gone before, who were beckoning her to come.

     The day before her death, she bore her testimony to the divinity of the Prophet Joseph and exhorted us to always live clean lives.  She told me, her daughter, Nora, where her tithing money was and asked me to pay it for her.  She was a faithful tithe payer all her life on her eggs, butter, and every nickel that she received from any source.  She was faithful as a Relief Society Teacher in Ririe, Idaho Ward up to two years before her death when her health became so poor she couldn't walk to do it.  She passed away, 17 May 1934, at her home in Ririe and her body was laid beside her husband in Annis Cemetery where one headstone marks their graves.

            Written by her daughter Nora E. Moss

            6 June 1940 at Ririe, Idaho, at the age of 54