Daniel Morgan and Clarissa Adelaide Baxter

Daniel Morgan was born July 16, 1844 in Hallbath, Fifeshire, Scotland. His father's name was William Morgan, born on June 23, 1817, also in Fifeshire, Scotland, and his mother's name was Matilda McGill Nelson, born on November 19, 1924 in Middelton, Inverask, Scotland. Daniel left Scotland to come to America in 1852. /he and his family came from Missouri across the plains and landed in Salt Lake Valley about July 1, 1852. His folks were always in quite poor circumstances and for this reason he never had the privilege of going to school more than three months.They lived in Nephi soon after arriving, which is where his sister Mary A.E. was born. She died in Nephi a year later. The family moved to Cedar City, where William T was born and died six months later. Edward Nelson was born the next year in Cedar City. John A was born at Beaver, and then they moved to Chicken Creek, Juab County, where Martha E, James Nelson and Ira Roy were born.

In 1862 (he was 18 years old) Daniel was called to go to Missouri after immigrants - he was in the Thomas Ricks Company. Daniel told how those in his company were captured by the Indians and were held by them when some spies from another company crept up close and shot their guns, frightening the Indians away. Daniel went across the plains twice after immigrants. The second trip was made in 1863. On one of these trips he was disguised as Captain Bridger.

Daniel married Clarissa A Baxter on November 1867. Clarissa Adelaide Baxter was born on August 22, 1849. Clarissa and her twin brother, Charles, were born at Independence Rock, Nebraska, on the Sweetwater River while the family was coming to Utah. The twins were number 10 and 11 in a family of 14 children born to Zimri Harford and Eunice Abigail Seavey Baxter. Charles Albert died right after birth.  Clarissa, a sister Eunice Seavey, and their baby brother Zimri Harford were the only three of the 14 children to live to maturity.

The Baxters had experienced much hardship and persecution from the mobs in Illinois. They were driven with the rest of the Saints across the Mississippi River into Iowa where preparations were made to cross the plains to the Rocky Mountains. Records say that the Baxter family arrived in the valley in December of 1849. The Baxters settled in Big Cottonwood where Zimri built a flour mill on the Cottonwood stream and farmed there. When Clarissa was not quite two years old, they moved to Nephi. When Clarissa was 18, she married Daniel Morgan on November 9, 1867 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. The journey north to the big city was in a covered wagon and was quite a pleasant adventure and a nice honeymoon trip.

Daniel and Clarissa's first child, Daniel S, was born in 1870 at Levan, Juab County. They lived at Levan until about 1878, and had three more children born there - William H, Eunice A (who only lived a few months), and Martha M. Daniel fell down the well he had dug and crippled his left leg. The doctor cut into the bone and around it and in some way his leg was made about two inches shorter than the right leg. The operation was done without any pain medication. He was crippled for the rest of his life.

Daniel and Clarissa moved to Aurora, Sevier County, Utah and had five children here - Zimoriah H, John A (died early in life), Edward Nelson, Joseph A, and James O. The family moved to Castleton, Carbon County, where Ira Roy was born. Clarissa was never well after Roy was born, and she died in 1890 at the age of 41 and was buried in the Price Cemetery. Clarissa was gifted in needlework, crocheting, and quilt making. She was diligent in Church activities, especially in Relief Society. Martha, being the only girl left at home, was responsible for the seven children for 10 years. Daniel died in Wellington on October 6, 1902.

Daniel was always very faithful and obedient to his parents and those in authority. They had to go without shoes all year round. He was a self-educated man, and he was a well-educated man both in civil affairs and in the gospel. He was always very industrious and an active church worker.