Samuel Elijah Holt, born on August 30, 1868, five years after his family arrived from England, grew up in a one-room log cabin on the bank of the Beckstead Ditch east of the South Jordan cemetery, spent his childhood herding cows, fishing, and working on the family farm, wore clothing his mother made from denim until his first readymade clothes were bought at age 13, attended school in the first school house in South Jordan, and after the fifth grade moved to the family sheep camp in Wyoming because of poor health from rheumatism, where he worked as a sheepherder until age 23. He later returned to South Jordan, married Margaret Geneva Beckstead, served a 2 1/2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1898, and from his return in 1901 until his death became an influential community and church leader in South Jordan, serving as an LDS bishop for 13 years while his farm helped the community through sharing vegetables and fruit with the needy and eventually serving as the Bishop's Tithing Storehouse, where ward members donated goods instead of cash to obey the law of tithing. Margaret Geneva Beckstead, called Neve, was born in South Jordan on April 2, 1874, in a one-room log cabin on the banks of the Beckstead Ditch, was the third child in her family, began school at age five in the one-room basement of the first church house, was baptized at age eight in a large pond on the Beckstead farm, worked at age fifteen for her father and uncle in a co-operated grocery store for fifty cents a day, and often went with her father to dances around the county while he played in the band. After marrying Samuel, she spent summer months in Piedmont, Wyoming, at the family sheep camp, and when Samuel left on his mission five years later she was left with two small children and gave birth to a third six months later, moved in with her parents until his return, then worked beside him on their farm while raising 12 children, and devoted herself to gardening and flowers on at least one-half acre of land, making bouquets that were sent to hospitals and sick people in the community.