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.

Brief history of the settling of Grouse Creek, Utah — "Having been requested by our present Bishop, Joseph S. Barlow, to write some history and give some reminiscence of the settling or pioneering of the Grouse Creek Valley, writer Philip A. Paskett, with the assistance of other pioneers and his own journal, proceeds to do so in a plain, unembellished way."

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.