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Show CAMP VERNAL DUP The January meeting of Camp Vernal DUP was held Jan. 15 at the home of Jane Wall with Mary Freeman and Mildia Jones as co-hostesses. A dessert lunch was served to 17 members and one guest, Audrey Udall, of California. . Captain LeOra Jacobe showed and read some , Christinas cards received from the Uintah County Camp and the Central Company of Salt Lake City. The lesson, given by Mary Freeman, was a day by day diary of Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich, the great-grandmother of Mary. Mrs. Rich was born Sept. 23, 1814 in Lookingglass Prairie, IU. The family moved to Tennessee where other relatives lived. They did not like this area so moved back to Dlinois. When Sarah was 15 years old some LDS missionaries contacted the family and they soon became converted to the church. They were baptized Dec. 15 in the river where the ice had to be cut out in order to perform the ceremony. They soon moved to Missouri to be with the main body of the Saints. Here she married Charles Coulson Rich. Mr. Rich was called on a mission and she took care of the family and home. While he was gone a son Charles was born to them. Pologamy was introduced in-troduced by the church officials and Sarah, anxious to obey, soon picked four women to be Mr. Rich'g wives. On Feb. 1, 1B56, the family of 17 members moved out of Nauvoo and April 2, 1948 left for the West. They were hHd up the first year and did not |