William MCCARREY

                   BIOGRAPHY: Hannah Melissa McCarrey vas born in Nauvoo, April 30, l845, She was the daughter of Warner and Priscilla Gifford Hoopes.  Her parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early days and were among those who suffered in the trials and persecutions in Missouri and Illinois.
Melissa was the third child in a family of ten children.  She was baptized in 1857 at St. Joseph, Missouri by George A. Lincoln, She went to school for a short time in Clay County Missouri. Her father was a cobbler and a charcoal burner and became quite well to do while in Missouri. Melissa's family was among those that had lost their accumulations in the mobbings and were  advised by Brigham Young to go into Missouri, live quietly, hold no public meetings, stav long enough only to accumulate enough to come west on. Prosperity and friendliness made them forget these instructions, brought on a tragedy that resulted in Father Hoopes' imprisonment for ten months.  Lawyers' fees and family expanses eating up all their savings.. The tragedy happened thus:
One night they were living about seven miles up the Missouri River from St. Joseph, a neighbor's house with father, mother and three children was burned. Brother Hoopes and his neighbor Lincoln, were accused, arrested, and put in jail awaiting trial for ten months and a day. At the trial both were found innocent as they proved they were at home and asleep and knew nothing of the fire until morning. 'While Brother Hoopes was in jail his wife cared for her four little children as best she could.  Mobs came ever many times threatening to kill her and burn the home.  They came one time and gave her three days to leave the state, but still she could not and would not leave without her husband.  There were stumps near the house where the mob members used to sit when they came.  The children used to put thorns on these stumps so the mobs would sit on them.
After the trial the sheriff  who had always proved a friend of Hoopes took him, put him on a boat and sent him up the river to Omaha where he might find work and send for his family. In the mean time Mrs. Hoopes sold their only cow and came on with the family as a surprise.
The Warner Hoopes family now took work with the Hyrum Hoopes family and the Bovier family who were coming on to Utah thereby paying their way.  Melissa, then fourteen years of age, rode a pony and drove stock for Bovier to pay her way across the Plains.
The Hoopes arrived in Utah August 2 with the Harlow Redfield's company.  Her parents lived in Bountiful the winter of 1859, but Melissa worked in Grantsville for Mrs. Rachel Bovier.  Her wages were for her board and three yards of lindsay from which she made a skirt for herself.  For a waist she used the factory lining from a waist of Mrs. Bovier's.
   In the spring; of 1860 she and her parents came to Richmond where she resided until the last three years of her life.  During those three years she lived 'with her daughter, May, working in the temple.
She was married to William McCarrey, July 24 1864 in the Gilbert Bright home.  The following December they with Charles Allen and wife drove a mule team to Salt Lake City and received their endowments, December 27, 1864.  They lived where the Lewis McCarrey residence now stands for a short time then moved to their homestead two miles south of Richmond.

BIOGRAPHY: Melissa McCarrey was an active church member all of her life.  One of her characteristics was obeying counsel given by Authorities to the very letter.  When the Work of Wisdom was given as a command, she was a user of tea and coffee.  She lost her first baby at nine months of age.  Then her second baby was very sick.  One night she had dream.  She dreamed the Lord came to her and said, "How can you expect to ary to me to restore your child to health if you will not obey my commandments?"   She thought this meant her using tea and coffee.  She stopped drinking  both, her child got well, and she never used either again.  She was also much opposed to the use of tobacco and strong drinks and never flinched in fighting against them.  She was  always a strict tithe payer.  Whenever she received money, her tithing was immediately set aside.  She was always a generous donator.

BIOGRAPHY: In January 1922 she suffered a paralytic stroke which took away her speech and the use of her right side.  She never regained either and passed away, January 12, 1923.