Lott Russon, Sr., born in England on January 1, 1829, and Eliza Round, born there on October 21, 1830, married on December 25, 1850, and converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints two years later while Lott supported their growing family by working in foundries and coal mines. Elisha Peck, Sr., born in England on April 26, 1850, lost his mother, Phebe Turner Peck, at age three and his father, Elisha Peck, four years later, joined the LDS Church at age twelve, and at seventeen served as a missionary in the Birmingham District, where he met Charlotte, the oldest daughter of Lott and Eliza Russon, while she was singing in Mormon street meetings. After completing his mission in 1868, Elisha immigrated to Lehi, Utah, earning his fare by working for the Union Pacific railroad on the way, and after learning from the Deseret News that Charlotte had moved to Salt Lake City in the fall of 1869 and was living in the home of Peter Nebecker, he walked 30 miles to see her; after more than a year of correspondence, they were sealed in the Endowment House in Temple Square in 1870. Their first home in Lehi was a one-room house measuring 12 feet by 14 feet with a dirt floor. In the fall of 1871, Eliza R. Russon, still in England, received word from Peter Nebecker that through the Perpetual Emigration Fund her entire family could be conveyed to Utah, and she and Lott soon brought their eight children from England to America by way of the new Transcontinental Railroad. In Lehi, the family of ten stayed briefly in the small home of Elisha and Charlotte Peck, and within a few days Elisha Peck, Jr. was born. In 1885, Lott Russon, Jr. and Elisha Peck, Jr. bought the bench land covered with wild sagebrush on which the family community later grew. For four generations, the Russon and Peck families made their living from farming there, and descendants remained in the area as the property came to include homes, a park, and an LDS chapel dedicated in 2007. The families' move to America was made possible by missionaries, Peter Nebecker, and the Perpetual Emigration Fund, and their descendants later contributed widely in religious and civic life as mechanics, engineers, artists, morticians, physicians, lawyers, teachers, professors, military service members, and missionaries, while carrying forward a legacy of virtue, fortitude, and dedication to God and country.