| Show SKETCH OF TILE THE LIFE OF SARAH Sc ANN W. W WESTERN Sarah Ann Wood Western was born May 8 1850 at Chesterfield Derbyshire England She came to Utah with her parents when a 0 child They located In Lehl Lehi Her parents paTents were called to help settle southern Utah about 1861 when she Was avas then eleven years old and she herself hersel drove a team of oxen all the way way t to Virgin ln City Washington County She passed through all tho the trials trial of hunger during the Grasshopper War in Utah They were forced t to live on nettles sego lilies tilles roots and andIn andIn andin In fact anything so dire was the their necessity One day her father received received re re- as pay for some work a pock of ot barley He had it ground and from tram It they made some bread for far dinner So elated were the children for having some bread to eat that tha they ran out and exclaimed to their thel playmates We had bread for dinner din din- nor ner today 1 When they moved to southern Utah U Utah Utah U- U tah Hour was very veri scarce They actually actually actually ac ac- ac- ac lived on broom corn seed anc and the seeds of sugar cane which was I made macle Into bread and ond mush This was all aU that kept ept them alive for tor some tome time Sarah Ann was the sole help o oher of her father She used to go out In Inthe Inthe inthe the fields and plowed and harvested Just like a man In 1864 they moved to Berrys Berry's Valloy In Kane County She still saw much poverty there It It was here she became with and married married mar mar- ried Samuel W. W Western January 29 1866 months later they were forced to leave their new home because because because be be- cause of at Indian They settled In Spring Valley Lincoln Co Nevada t then en to Rose Valley This wa wad in a mountainous country and there they spent much labor in cutting cutting cut cut- ting Ing andl andi hauling timber r the mines at December 28 1887 they reached Des Deseret ret where they have since resided re re- re- re sided Sarah An Ann Western iwas the mother moth moth- er of ten children five boys boy's and five girls Four of them have preceded her to the grave She had been a 0 faithful member of the ward choir for forty years She served as President of the Y L.M. L L. M. M I. I A. A In the Relief Society and was s a strict tithe payer Since 1925 her health gradually left her and she was Incapacitated from performing her usual duties She passed away Feb 7 1929 at ather ather ather her home in Deseret survived by her husband three sons and three daughters daughters daughters daugh daugh- one brother one sister forty forty- eight grandchildren and forty great grand children She was a pioneer |
