In October 1877, Wm. C. Bitteridge Sr., Philip A. Paskett, and Wm. P. Paskett, with their families, started from Henefer, Summit County, Utah. Each having an ox team and wagon started to move to Grouse Creek, a distance of about 200 miles. When arriving at Brigham City, they encountered a hurricane which lasted three days. We stayed at a Bro. Conleys during this time. Before starting from Henefer, Bishop Wm. W. Cluff offered to let us put 125 bushels of wheat into the Tithing office at Coalville, Summit County and take that much out at Brigham City.This offer we gladly accepted and Bishop Alvin Nichols at Brigham City offered to take said wheat from the Tithing office to the grist mill and then haul the flour and place it on the cars at Corrine, to have all the bran and sharts as compensation. This agreement was fully fulfilled.

Charles Kimber and his brother, Wm. J. Kimber, came from Tooele to Grouse Creek in July 1875 to locate a farm. At that time there were but very few people in the valley, namely Valison Tanner, his brother, Alma, John Ferguson and Oliver Kilgore; the two latter working for cattlemen. The Kimber brothers located at a place northwest of the Buttes, where there was a nice stream of water coming out of the west foot hills. This place is about eleven miles southwest from our present meeting house. They returned to Tooele the following August coming back to Grouse Creek the latter part of June 1876 putting up a small stack of hay and building an adobe house. Charles Kimber making the adobies, going back to Tooele again and returning to Grouse Creek in March 1877 bringing with them Charles Kimber's wife and little girl (Annie), his father, mother, and sister with her small girl (Clara). These were the first women in the valley. A son was born to Charles Kimber and wife in October and was the first white child born in the valley. They all lived down on their claims above mentioned at the Kimber ranch.

Lorenzo D. Mecham and family were living on the West Fork at what is known as the Twin Springs.He afterwards homesteaded a farm on the East Fork. Benjamin F. Cooke had come from Grantsville, Tooele Co., in company with his brother, Henry and located about a quarter of a mile up from our present meeting house, they built a log house and moved into it with his family in the fall of 1877.We used to hold meetings in his house.

In 1878, those who came from Henefer, as well as others, cleared some land and raised some wheat.We made a ditch from what is known as the Cooke Dam down to the writer's claim at the mount of Paskett Canyon, about three miles surveying as best we could without a spirit level; plowing a piece of ditch with two yoke of cattle, cleaning it out, and turning waters into it so as to be sure the water would run, repeating this till we finished the ditch and then the water was right there as in time to water the crops of A. F. Richins, James R. Simpson, Philip A. Paskett, and Wm. C. Bitteridge.