Edward Nelson Morgan was born to Daniel Morgan and Clarissa Adelaide Baxter on June 29th, 1882, at Aurora, Sevier County, Utah. Daniel owned a large tract of land which they owned until about 1889. On October 12th, 1889, Edward's youngest brother, Roy, was born. On January 10, 1890 Clarissa died, having never recovered from her illness at the birth of Roy. The family moved to Wellington, where they lived until Daniel died on October 6, 1902. During much of this time Edward herded sheep for a living. Martha Jane Patterson (Jen) was teaching school at Levan and living with Edward's grandmother Morgan and his uncle, James Morgan. Jen and Edward married on June 5, 1907. Throughout his life, Edward had many jobs and worked wherever he could. He also had many positions in the church and was faithful throughout his life. He was ordained a High Priest on November 30, 1924 by Joseph Fielding Smith.
One summer a hail storm came up and in 15 minutes destroyed their entire crop of wheat. The next year they lost about a tenth of their crop to hail. After their crop was destroyed they bought pigs and fattened them in the field, killed the pigs and hauled them to Carbon County and sold them for 10 cents a pound.
In July 1936 Edward's nephew, Dan, was killed in an auto accident in Nevada. They lived in St. George, so the family went down to the funeral. As they were returning home the car turned over and Jen was seriously injured. She died two days later, on the 17th of July. The car was driven by Evan, Edward's brother Bert and his wife, Darle and Irene, and Jen were all in the car.
Edward married Harriet Irinda Sorensen in the Salt Lake temple on June 10, 1942. They took Frieda Sorensen, Nora Burnham, and Jessie Foresgren to the Manti, St. George, and Mesa temples on their honeymoon trip.
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