They were born about the year 1809 or 1810 and grew to manhood and womanhood and were married.  Two sons and one daughter were born to that wedlock.  One day while Joseph was working at his trade he was taken seriously ill and was taken home to his wife and children.  He grew rapidly worse until about twenty four hours from the time he took sick and then he passed away, leaving his wife a widow with the three small children to care for.  Their names were John, Edward, and Mary Jane.  Mary Jane died when she was a small child.  Shortly after this Elizabeth Hardman Morgan heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints preached by traveling elders.  She believed and became converted and joined the church in her native land of England.  Almost immediately she began to make preparations to emigrate with the Saints to the Rocky Mountains.  On her way across the ocean she met a man by the name of Francis Birch who afterwards became her husband.  He, like herself, had been converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  He was a widower with two or three children.  They came to Salt Lake City, Utah in about 1850 and located at Mill Creek Ward.  Francis Birch married a second wife in polygamy named Mary Ann Green and they raised a large family.  He died some years previous to his wife, Elizabeth, who lived to the ripe age of 72 years.  She died March 1882 at her home in Mill Creek after living a life of usefulness in the service of others.  She was always working among the sick and afflicted.  Her two sons had homes close by her, and she had joy in her posterity.  She lived and died a faithful Latter-Day Saint.