Show i LIFE SKETCH r ri i HOF H- H OF MRS SARAH SARA II LEIGH WHO WIIO I 4 DIED DECEMBER IN TillS f CITY Sarah SaraG Maria Marla Chaffin Leigh Iwas was born February 11 1855 in fn Salt Lake City She was In Salt Lake a mere child during a famine there She endured en en- lured dured that hardship ot of shortage ot of 11 food tood along with many other pioneers 1 When she was six years old she ahe left Salt Lake with her parents Louis Louisi i 4 Rice Chaffin and Sarah Maria Cos Cos- i r P 4 sett Chaffin to settle in In St. St George r t Utah a The family left Salt Lake with mth two l r horses and the the- theother other br by n a team of horses and the othe by n a tear team of off f oxen The trip from Salt Sali lake to t St. St George took about five or six weeks Much time was taken up In clearing sagebrush and boulders so that the wagons might pass 1 The IndIans were bothersome to the pioneers on the because they f often came to the tho camps to beg and to bargain They very cry persist persist- ant The route taken by these pioneers from SnIt Salt Lake to St. St George was called the Old Mormon Trail which Is isA A now practically the same as the Arrowhead Ar- Ar i Trail I The company that first went over OYer j this country consisted of fifty people I It had about 14 wagons drawn by horses horses hor- hor ses and ox teams The Chaffin wagon was the third to move on the camp grounds which were near the townsite of St St. Georrge a Soon Tulin inn In nnA nn ma 11 n w low cabins cabins- to move Into One log 1 cabin was used for schoolroom Worn o out t books that they had brought with r i f them were used as text books In th the e school l. l Cottonwood trees were cut t to o servo as seats scats Broken slates were used to write on and pieces of f slate to write with That is the sort o of f i school Mrs Leigh first attended In the early days of St. St George Mrs Leigh attended the dances often loaning her shoes during a dance to some girl who had n none ne and then she would sit Bit out the dance with her feet tucked under the cottonwood bench i When Mrs L Leigh was 12 years old i the Chaffin family moved again this t tIme to Cedar City Tier Her father put up t r a grist mill and the town with i burr flour made with native stone t I 1 made into burrs j I November 30 1874 Sarah Chaffin l Leigh was married to John David Leigh deceased n a farmer of Cedar City at that time |