William and Rachel Jennings Neville-Stiff, came to America in 1867 with their two youngest sons and built a hard cart to come to Zion at the ages of 63 and 59. The parents of ten productive children, they were preceded by their daughter Annie who had married John Cox. Eventually six of their children emigrated to Utah, all part of the vanguard of a small group of determined settlers who stuck it out in one of the most difficult places into which Mormon settlers were sent: the Bear River Valley at Woodruff, Utah.
From Woodruff, the family spread out, taking part in the colonization of Big Horn, Wyoming. Thise who stayed in Centerville and Rich County continued to make Utah a better place to live with their genius for building and thinking. Nowhere is the history of English and American ingenuity better told than in the story of this family.
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