Elizabeth Ann Morris was born in Ponteat, Carmarthen, South Wales on June 13, 1817. Her family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1856 Elizabeth moved to United States to be with the main body of the Church. They rode in a railroad cattle car from Boston to Des Moines, Iowa, and after three weeks of waiting for their handcart to be made ready, they started the trek across the plains in Captain Bunker’s Handcart Company. In Utah, Heber C. Kimball asked Ira Rice, a widower of means, to employ Ann as his housekeeper. This led to marriage later in 1856. Elizabeth was set apart as a midwife by Heber C. Kimball. The Rices moved from North Ogden to Providence, Utah, where they lived until 1865. At that time they answered a call to settle Washington County, Utah.

Olive Emily Smith was born in Lee County, Iowa on December 12, 1845. Her parents were Utah pioneers. She married Hyrum Rice on December 25, 1865 in Salt Lake City. She died of blood poisoning on May 22, 1886 resulting from a broken arm.

On May 15, 1844, Hyrum Smith Rice, more often called William Hyrum, was born in Nauvoo, Illinois. His father was Ira Rice. He married Olive Emily Smith on December 25, 1865, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His death date and burial place are uncertain, but it is rumored he died in Malta at the home of his daughter, about 1906.

Margaret Mathews was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales on June 11, 1849. Her parents had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When Margaret was seven years old, her parents left Liverpool, England for America. They were part of the Edward Bunker Handcart Company and walked all the way to Utah. She married Oscar North Rice in 1869. Margaret passed away on February 18, 1926 in Providence, Utah.

Daniel A. Miller and Clarissa Pond, parents of Jane Clarissa Miller, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before Jane Clarissa was born in Adams, Illinois. Later, the family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley and helped settle Farmington, Utah. Jane married Oscar North Rice on April 25, 1859. Death called her home at the age of fifty-four on February 15, 1896.

Elizabeth’s parents were Lorin Whiting Babbitt and Almira Castle, of Pompey, Onandaga County, New York. The couple moved to Painesville, Lake County, Ohio to be near the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Kirtland, Ohio. Elizabeth Almira, their first child, was born May 18, 1830 at Painesville, Lake County, Ohio.Elizabeth married Leonard Gurley Rice March 18, 1849. Elizabeth died June 27, 1907 at the age of 77. She was buried at Parker, Idaho.

Margaret Buckwalter, the daughter of John and Sarah Shuler Buckwalter, was born November 12, 1828, in Westenantmeal Township, Pennsylvania. Margaret's family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Iliinois. Margaret's first husband, Lemon Wickel, died on June 4, 1850. She moved to Utah in 1852 with her baby, mother and siblings. Margaret married Leonard Gurley Rice on January 2, 1853. Later she settled in the Teton Valley and lived with her daughter, Martha (Rice) Drake and her son-in-law Richard Asa Drake. She passed away October 10, 1918 and was buried in Victor, Idaho.

Leonard Gurley’s parents, Ira and Sarah Ann Harrington Rice, were living in Northville, Wayne County, Michigan, when he was born September 3, 1829. Mormon missionaries visited their home in Michigan while Leonard was a young child, and the family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Soo after, the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. The Rice home was burned by mobs the year the Mormons crossed the Mississippi River fleeing Nauvoo in 1846. Leonard, age 19, had the responsibility of taking part of his father's the familyto Utah. Leonard Gurley returned east the next year to help other emigrant trains west, which he repeated several times. He met his three wives on these treks. Leonard passed away on September 12, 1886 after suffering from pneumonia he contracted in the penitentiary while awaiting trial as a polygamist.

Born June 4, 1839, in Howard, New York, Ann Victoria Rose was the sixth of eight children born to Abraham Rose and Catherine Nicholson Rose. Her parents joined the Mormon Church in 1836. In 1853 the Rose family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and settlee in Farmington, about seventeen miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah. Ann married William Kelsey Rice. She died following the birth of her twelfth child on May 26, 1878.

Lucy Witter Geer, born on February 23, 1824, at Perry, Ohio, was the daughter of Moses and Sarah Geer. Lucy was eight years of age when she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her parents died at McHenry, Illinois and Lucy was the only one of her family that traveled to Utah. Lucy married William Kelsey Rice in 1845 and began planning their trek west to Utah. She died in Lewiston Utah, March 28, 1899, at the age of 75.