Andrew Patterson was born on October 25, 1815, to Robert and Mary Drysdale Patterson, at Newton, Scotland. Margaret Fife was born on October 3, 1814 to John and Margaret Hunter Fife, at Devon Clackmannon, Scotland. They married on November 18, 1837, when Andrew was 22 and Margaret 23. They had four children: Margaret, born on December 1, 1838; Robert, born on November 25, 1840; and twin daughters Agnes Ann and Mary Roy, born on April 10, 1844. Sometime between 1838 and 1848 Andrew and Margaret came in contact with the Mormon missionaries, were baptized (on October 25, 1847), and emigrated to America with their children in February or March of 1848. They traveled to New Orleans on either the Carnatic or the Sailor Prince. They then took a smaller boat up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to St. Louis, Missouri. They arrived in St. Louis in April or May of 1848. Some of Andrew's brothers also came to America about the same time. One brother, Alexander, settled in the Ogden area. In the summer of 1848 a cholera epidemic swept through St. Louis, killing many, including Margaret. She died on August 5, 1848, and was buried in a common grave. At the time Margaret was almost 10, Robert was 8, and Agnes Ann and Mary Roy were 4 years old.
For two years Andrew worked at the mines to earn money for their journey. While there he met Jane Nelson Morgan, a widow of 36, and they were married in 1851. Jane Nelson was married to Thomas Morgan but we assume that they had not
been married long before Thomas died. Jane was baptized on June 1, 1847. Jane and Thomas were sealed in
the temple, as were Andrew and Margaret. Andrew and Jane traveled to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Andrew and Jane had a son born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in May of 1852, named Edward Nelson. He only weighted 2 1/2 pounds. The family stopped in Council Bluffs for ten days and then traveled on. Edward was too small to be dressed, so Jane wrapped him in a blanket and carried him on a pillow in her apron across the plains. Andrew wasn't dressed until they arrived in Salt Lake Valley. Robert said that Edward cried clear across the plains. The family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the late summer or fall of 1852, then settled in the Ogden area and started to build an adobe house. In 1854 Andrew and his family moved to Cedar City, where Andrew worked in the mines. They built their first log cabin, but times were hard and provisions few. Their crops were a failure, water was scarce, and the land was rocky and not very productive. In 1855 Andrew was born and in 1856 another child was born, but in 1856 both babies died of starvation. They moved to Beaver Valley and lived in a dugout, then built a log cabin and had a son named Thomas Morgan on July 1, 1857. They began to prosper, and three years later they built a five-room brick home. In 1859 John Nelson was born, and on August 7, 1864, just six months before Jane was 50 years old Martha Jane was born.
Andrew freighted with mule teams, and built the first canal south of Beaver to water the land in the south west fields. He also helped build Cove Fort. Jane was the first woman doctor to hold an M.D. in the state of Utah. She delivered 500 babies in the Beaver Valley and doctored the residents. When Edward was 8 he broke his leg in two places and Jane set the leg and it healed well.
Margaret married John X Smith on July 24, 1855, when she was 17. Margaret and John X moved from Cedar City to Beaver in 1857 or 1858. John X had joined the church as a young man in England and came to America soon after. He was the only member of his family to join the church. He came to New Orleans and then up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to St. Louis. He came to Salt Lake City and later to Cedar City, where he married Margaret. After moving to Beaver they built a home and raised 14 children and spent the rest of their lives in Beaver.
1. John Andrew Smith married Charlotte Swindlehurst
2. Joseph Anthony smith married Amelia Swindlehurst
3. Margaret Smith married John Ashworth
4. Robert Hyrum Smith (twin) married Caroline Carlow
5. Sarah Smith (twin) married Ebenezar Gillies
6. Mary Anne Smith married James Wesley Farrer
7. Richard Haley Smith died as a child
8. Susan Jane Smith married John Molen Murdock
9. Thomas Eken Smith died as a child.
10. Emma Elizabeth Smith married Willford Robinson
11. William Edward Smith married Elsie Ann Eyre
12. Kathern Patterson Smith married Thomas Bennett
13. Jeanette Smith married John Stoney
14. Clara Ellen Smith married Fergus Wilden
Robert married Sophia Bohn when he was 25 and she was 15. Sophia's father had joined the church in Denmark, came to Salt Lake City, then to Cedar City to work in the iron mines, then to Beaver. Robert and Sophia had 11 children.
1. Andrew Patterson married Mary Jane Morgan (died in childbirth) and Annie Newby
2. Margaret Patterson married Horace Skinner
3. Joseph Adolph Patterson married Lea Ann Ross and Jane Jund
4. Robert Patterson died as a child
5. Thomas Oscar Patterson married Margaret Davis
6. Adam Sharp Patterson married LaVern Williams
7. Albert Patterson married Jessie Myrtle White
8. Lewis Patterson married Sarah Ann Baldwin
9. Wiliam Patterson (Billie) never married (crippled from childhood and couldn't walk or talk. Robert and Sophia took care of him until he died at 34.)
10. James Patterson married Ruby White
11. Horace Patterson married Daisy Merlin Evans
Agnes Ann married Philo Taylor Farnsworth when she was 14 as his third wife. She raised her own children and helped care for Philo's second wife's children, since their mother died when they were quite small. Agnes Ann made butter and sold butter and milk to the grocery store for needed groceries. When her children were small, she would bathe them on Saturday nights and put them to bed, then wash and iron their only clothes so they would be fresh for Sunday. Philo died in 1887, so she raised her children on her own. She died on May 1, 1909. She had 10 children.
1. Andrew Stephen Farnsworth died as a child
2. Robert John Farnsworth married Irene Lucilla Gay
3. Lewis Edwin Farnsworth married Amelia Abigain White
4. Mary Ann Farnsworth died as a child
5. Albert Steven Farnsworth married Mary Alice Anderson
6. Edward Farnsworth married Elizabeth Ferguson Munson
7. Charles Farnsworth married Mayne Jessie Zobel
8. Margaret Ann Farnsworth died as a child
9. Martha Jane Farnsworth married Robert Dyer Green
10. Samuel Dennis Farnsworth married Elizabeth Watson
Mary Roy married Samuel Moffat when she was 17, on January 7, 1861 in Logan, Utah. Samuel was from Dalkeith Edinburgh Scotland, and was not a member of the church. Mary Roy and Samuel separated in their later years. Mary Roy died in Tetonia, Teton, Idaho, and Samuel died in LeGrand Union, Oregon. They had 8 children.
1. Samuel Patterson Moffat married Sarah Elnora Jane Barney
2. Elizabeth Moffat married George Albert Bradhsaw
3. Mary Ann Moffat married Joseph Gale
4. Margaret Japp Moffat married Angus Gillies
5. Joseph Moffat married Rhoda Wareing
6. Andrew Moffat married Eliza Celia Swanner
7. John Peter Moffat married Florence Caroline Ramsay
8. Isabella Moffat married Daniel Parley Latham
Edward Patterson married Martha Harriet Dean on February 6, 1878.
1. John Edward Patterson married Rosella Olsen
2. Thomas Morgan Patterson married Adlade Barton
3. Lettie Matle patterson married Charles Bowden
4. Martha Jane Patterson married Edward Morgan
5. Heber Patterson died as a child
6. Edgar Patterson married Sara Jane Morris
7. Alice Maud Patterson died as a child
8. Wilford Elmer Patterson died as a child
9. Dean Patterson died as a child
10. Edna Darle Patterson married Albert T. Smith
11. Viola A Patterson married Gilbert Smith
12. William Chester Patterson never married
Catherine Banks Patterson married Thomas Jefferson Sly on Mary 8, 1880, when Catherine was 25 years old. They had five children.
1. Dale Sly married Hilma Johanna Rosenberg
2. Katy Jean McGill Sly married John H Twitchell
3. Ray James Sly married Ethel mandena Dally
4. Dee Thomas Sly married Eurice Rosina Puffer
5. Susanna Banks Sly married Thomas Waters
Thomas married Adolphine Bohn, a sister to Sophia Bohn. They had five children:
1. Catherine Banks Patterson married John Calvert Bowman
2. Martha Jane Patterson married Joseph L. Hanson
3. Archie Patterson never married
4. Leonia Patterson married Arthur Smith
5. Geneva Patterson married John Elliott Idol
Martha Jane Patterson married Edward Morgan on December 15, 1881. They had six children, four of whom died as young children.
1. Myrtle Evelyn Morgan married Charles Waters
2. Jane Patterson Morgan married John Hofheins
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