Our Pioneer Heritage
Volume 1
Their Contribution To Utah
Australian Converts

In faraway Adelaide, Australia, sometime prior to the year 1912, Rosena Teague Pedler and her husband, William, had recently buried an infant daughter. Missionaries of the Mormon Church came into their home bringing comfort to the bereaved parents and explaining the principles of their religion. Rosena embraced the Gospel and was soon baptized, but William refused baptism until the time of his death September 22, 1949. He is buried in the family plot at the Pedler homestead of Trevalsa. This name was brought from Cornwall, England, when some of the family migrated to Australia. Rosena bore fervent testimony to her children, with the result that thename of Pedler continues upon the records of the Branch to this time. The eldest son, William Joseph and his wife, Lily Violetta Cook, having joined the Church, decided to emigrate to Zion.