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Show FAIRVIEW LADY DIES AT AGE OF q 99 YEARS, 15 DAYS At the age of years and 15 days, Mrs. Sarah H. Taylor of .airvie'.v completed her lile's work on earth. She died Saturday, July 14, and luii-eral luii-eral bervices were held .Monday at the Fairview ward chapel in connection connec-tion with the services held over the remains of Frederick Christensen. Oenealogy of Surah Vail Howell Terry (Contributed by the family.) SARAH VAIL HOWELL TERRY, daugliter ot John Vail and Elizabeth Edwarus, was born June 2, liSlS, at ttiver Head, Long Island, New York. Her fattier ana mother were both born In the same place. She spent n.r early lite at fairview. Her lather, la-ther, called Capt. John Vail, owned a vessel, a small sailing boat, and earned his livelihood transporting people from Long island to New Vork lor many years. Her mother died when she was about t'o-ur years of age. Her lather lived single several years when he married Deborah Feruiuui oi Hiver Head, who was born March 31, 1790. There were at this time nine children as follows: Fanny, Elizabeth, Charles Edward,, Martha, George Washington, Sarah, Mary, ilueuen and Pheby, her mother died at the time these last two (twins) were born, in the year 1822. Sarah went many trips with her father across Long Island Sound, over to lew York, many times up the Connecticut Con-necticut river and different places where her father carried passengers. She lived at River Head until she joined the L. D. S. church in the year 1842. At the age of 18 she was married to Edmond Wheeler Howell of River Head, October 5, 1836. He was a shoemaker and made a living follow, ing that trade, and stayed with it all his life. About five years later she first heard the elders of the Mormon church preaching the gospel in her country, and a year later, after her husband had joined the church, she became a convert. At this time she had been suffering for about a mouth with neuraligia in her head which had pained her very severely, but when she was going to be baptized, the elder told her to throw off the bandages from her head. She did so and traveled about seven and one-half one-half miles in the wind and was baptized bap-tized in the ocean water Long Island Sound by Elder Bisbee, and from that very hour the neuraligia left her and she never had another touch of it, this was a great testimony to her. Shortly after, during the later part of 1844, she and her husband and three children, Willis, Harriet Mariah and George Edward, left River Head and moved over to New York, where Mary was born. They lived there about three years, working in order to get sufficient means to go on their journey westward. Before leaving New York they buried their son, George Edward. While in New York her husband went in partnership with another shoemaker and after a short time the rogue picked up one night taking the tools and nearly all they had and skipped away with it. It took some time for him to recruit and get more tools before he could finish earning money to go on their journey. They left New York in 184 6 and traveled on to St. Louis, where they stayed for about' a year. While there another child, Emily Anna, was born, but lived only about nine months and died before they left St. Louis. They then left St. Louis about the year 184 8 and traveled on to n Bluffs, Winter Quarters, where they stayed for about four years. Here Sarah Elizabeth and Ophelia Ann were born. During this time her husband worked and earned a yoke of oxen, a yoke of cows, a wagon and provisions with which to continue their journey across the plains. In May, 1852, they left the Bluffs and started on, with the company led by William Miles, later by Capt. Wood. They had only gone a short distance to the Piatt river, when the company was attacked with the Cholera, and her husband died. Within With-in three days her daughter, Harriet Mariah, also died. They continued on and later in- the fall of the same year landed in Salt Lake valley. After Af-ter reaching there she was met by a friend, Otis Lysander Terry from Little Lit-tle Cottonwood, whom she married January 27, 1853, she being his fourth wife, the others were Fanny M- , Jane Hart, Levy Judd, later marrying Jane Van Valk inberg. They lived at Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood about two or three years and then on account of famine caused by crickets, moved to Ogden to get employment. em-ployment. While here two of the women, Fanny and Jane, died. They remained for about a ear at Odea and then moved back to Little Cot-' loiiwood, and during the lime they! lived there Fanny Marilla, Edmund and Charles A. were born. While there the Johnson Army invaded L'tah and her oldest son, Willis, was called out to o Willi a company in defense of the Mormon people. In the .summer ol" IV." ihev moved to Sanpete, lather Terry having then three- wives, Levy, Sarah and Jane. They settled ill Fairview and December Decem-ber 28, lsun, I'eUs'.ia Melissa was born, she being the eleventh child, as follows: Elias Willis, Harriet .Mariah, .Ma-riah, George Edward! Mary Lavina, Emily Anne, Sarah Elizabeth and Ophelia Ann by the lirst husband, Edmond L., Fanny Marilla, Charles A., and t'elestia Melissa by Otis Lysander Ly-sander Terry, her second husband. Here she spent a quiet life, her husband working at farming and milling until his death, .November, 189'J. He having been a very hard worker, a good, honest, religious and faithful man, who was free hearted and willing at all times to help those in need, and one vvho had many friends, he was well thought of by the Indians, who always paid him a visit when they came to town. He was SI ears old at Ins death. Grandmother has been a hard worker and lived a useful life. She was treasurer of the Relief Society from 180S, the time it was organized in Fairview, to 1893. During her life she has endured many hardships, crossing the plains with ox teams, passed through the cricket and grasshopper famines, the Indian war, the united order, polygamy, poly-gamy, and remained a faithful Lat-ter-Day Saint. Her posterity numbered 556 at the time of her death, July 14, 1917. Nearly all are alive and all belong to the L. D. S. church. Among them were five children living and six dead; 62 grandchildren living and 23 dead; 285 great-grandchildren living and 52 dead; 110 great-great-grandchildren living and 13 dead. |
