She met Wilford Elisha Cragun after the family's move in 1869 to "Pole Patch" near the Hot

Springs in Weber Co., Utah. Wilford was a neighbor. She was fifteen and he was eighteen at

the time of their marriage. Their first home was a two-room log cabin built way up on the hill

at the foot of Ben Lomond Mountain. Soon Wilford bought land down the long road close to

the highway, and built a two-story rockfront house with the rocks from his land and the bricks

that he made from the clay on his land. Here, eleven of their thirteen children were born.

Besides raising eleven of her own children, she mothered and raised seven orphaned grandchildren.