Traditionally, most DUP camps meet during the day, but as the roles of women have changed over the years, more and more work outside the home and are unable to attend. For many years there had been interest in Bonneville County in starting a DUP camp which would hold evening meetings in an effort to attract more working women.
In 1996, Nita Howard, leader of the Bonneville County Company, gathered the names of those people who had inquired about an evening camp over the years and began contacting them. Nita and one of the individuals on the list, Shirley Reesdecided the time was right to try starting an evening camp and put a notice in Church ward bulletins inviting those ladies who were interested to contact Nita.
In September 1996 six ladies met at Nita's home to organize the new camp: Nita Howard, Shirley Rees, Marjorie Seward, Jeanne Mattson, Alice Ursenbach, and Linda Cook.
As Company leader, Nita appointed officers to serve during the first organizational year: Shirley Rees, Captain; Marjorie Seward, First Vice-Captain; Alice Ursenbach, Second Vice-Captain, Jeanne Mattson, Secretary-Treasurer, and Linda Cook, Historian.
These original five members began searching for other ladies to join the camp and by April 1997 enough applications for membership had been received for the the camp to be formally organized. On May 16, 1997 the chartering ceremony was held and the Miriam Hobson Carling Camp, Bonneville County Company, International Society of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers was officially established.
One of the first tasks of the group was to decide on a name for the new camp. Many are named after pioneers or historical figures, and member Linda Cook suggested her great-great grandmother's name. The others agreed, and the camp was officially named in her honor.
The Hobson family traveled to Utah in the Benjamin Gardner Company, settling in Farmington, Davis County, Utah in September of 1852. Miriam's father, Jesse, was elected to the Utah Legislature to represent Davis County in 1855-56, when it met at Fillmore. In December of 1855, while he was at the legislative session, his wife died in Farmington, leaving 8 children ranging in age from 17 years to 4 months.
In April of 1856, Jesse left for a mission to England, trusting the care of his children to others during his absence.
Miriam married Isaac Van Waggoner Carling on August 27, 1857, just 3 days shy of her 14th birthday. The wedding took place in S. T. Hoot's house in Fillmore and they were later sealed in the Endowment House on August 9, 1862. They had four children, all born in Fillmore, Utah:
John
Henry, born September 12, 1860Ellen
Alvira, born December 14, 1863Lydia
May, born March 1, 1866Jesse
Hobson, born June 3, 1869Miriam died June 22, 1869 from complications of child birth when Jesse was born. She was 25. The baby weighed only 3 lbs. at birth, but survived, and he and the other 3 children were raised by Aseneth Browning Carling along with her own children.
The oldest child, John Henry Carling, married Mary Elizabeth Lovell on April 3, 1884. Their third daughter, Miriam Adelia Carling, was born in Orderville, Utah on December 8, 1889. She married Lucius Clark on December 18, 1911, in Mexico, and they would later move to Idaho, where she was a charter member of the DUP when it was organized in Ammon, Idaho.
Their first daughter, Verla, married Kenneth G. Cook in 1955. She was a member of the Eagle Rock DUP, and their daughter, Linda, carries on the tradition as a charter member of the Miriam Hobson Carling Camp.
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