[1] Her mother worked in and around St. Louis, and remarried to Ira Stearns Hatch, before joining Thomas Howell Wagon Company in 1852.

[1] Jane McKechnie Walton and her husband obeyed a call from LDS Church president Brigham Young to settle the Woodruff, Utah area.

After several years in Woodruff, the Waltons were called to join other pioneers in settling the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah.

In a trip that was supposed to take six weeks, the pioneers spent nearly 6 months blasting and cutting their way through the steep canyon wall.

Within a few years, Jane's husband Charles was asked to travel 40 miles north and homestead a place that eventually became Monticello, Utah.