Ole Hanson Bayles was a single 21-year-old when he accepted a call to the San Juan Mission and drove and herded the cattle of the initial five-month-long exploring expedition. After church leaders encouraged single men to marry before settling in the remote San Juan area, he married his sweetheart, Mary Ann Durham, and they came to Bluff, arriving seven months after the Hole-in-the-Rock pioneers. Known for her patience and good cheer, Mary Ann died in 1888 while giving birth to their fourth child, who survived, leaving Hanson with four children under the age of eight. Six years after leaving her teaching post when Mary Ann died, Hanson's youngest sister, Emma Theodora, cared for his children and helped with the boarding house, and his sister Anna Marie also came to Bluff to help and later worked as a clerk in the Bluff Co-op. Nine years after Mary Ann's death, Hanson married Evelyn Lyman, who was musically inclined and, at the time of their marriage, was a member of the Bluff Orchestra along with two of Hanson's daughters. Evelyn was active in church and community throughout her life, and she and Hanson had nine children. Hanson helped establish Bluff's successful co-op, the family operated a boarding house in Bluff, he was nearly killed while serving his turn as sheriff, and he became successful in cattle, sheep, and land operations. In 1908 the family moved to Grayson, now Blanding, Utah, where he was called as the community's first bishop. In 1895 Emma married John Albert Scorup, and the Scorups, whose five of six children were born in Bluff, were an asset to the community.