In 1879, Margaret McCleve Hancock and her husband Mosiah L. Hancock left Utah to help settle Taylor at the request of Brigham Young. Upon her arrival, she was "set apart to minister to the needs of the sick and to midwife", assisting in the birth of over 1,400 babies. Born in 1838 in Belfast, Ireland, Margaret McCleve married Josiah in Utah after making the 1300-mile journey from Illinois to Utah with the 1856 Mormon Handcart Company. Mosiah and Margaret raised thirteen children in this small hand-scribed cabin. Later, the cabin served as a schoolhouse for first and second grade-schoolers during the 1914-1915 school year. In the grove behind the Margaret McCleve Hancock Log Cabin stands a small fort built with logs that were transported from Fort Wingate, New Mexico.