| Show sarah jane br brown own dies at age of 76 I 1 by margie 11 II lyman j sarah jane guymon brown died november 13 1948 at her home in in blanding at the age of 76 after an illness of three months she was born oct 21 1872 at fountain green sanpete county utah her parents were vere noah thomas and louise rowley guymon at the age of eight years she moved with her family to huntington emery county utah sarah jane grew up with the hardships and privations of pioneer life and learned the arts of industry and economy which served her well all her life at the a age e of 17 she was married to azariah brown in the manti temple her first child a gill was born on her birthday her husband was not satisfied to remain in huntington so on oct 15 1897 they joined a group of saints who were going to old Al mexico exico they settled first in colonia diaz arriving there march I 1 1898 in 1902 they moved to colonia dublan where they lived for six years frontier life is always hard but sarah jane performed her tasks uncomplainingly the family suffered much from malaria and typhoid fevers and decided to move back to the united states in december of 1908 just at the beginning of the mexican war they left dublan and traveled alone by team back to the states they stopped for a short time at hammond N M where a brother was residing soon they learned that a new community was being established mesa in san juan county utah after careful investigation they moved to grayson now blanding arriving in august 1910 through all these many migrations and hardships connected with ith the pioneering of many communities muni ties sarah jane was very sweet and an uncomplaining wife and mother she has given birth to 14 children eight girls and six boys 11 of whom are yet living they are ralph A jennie black louise black leah lyman laura hawkins katie hawkins elda black verda black J woodrow aroe G and ho AT all living in blanding except katie hawkins who lives in st george she also also has 58 grandchildren and 15 great continued on page four sarah jane brown act oase 1 grandchildren she is survived by two brothers and one sister er sarah jane brown quiet and sweet and patient leaves a heritage worthy to be passed from generation aeration to generation to the many who will honor and bless her name she has now gone to join her husband who preceded her on june 9 1947 also at the age of 76 funeral services were held on monday at two in the blandin Bland ingWard chapel the grandsons were e the pallbearers pall bearers and the small grandchildren carried the flowers the opening song theres a beautiful country was sung sting by a mixed double quartet a r opening prayer was by geo ea A hurst jr the second song once we lived with god ou our father was sung by vernon C row rowley ey and reva redd with violin and piano accompaniment david P black then spoke A musical reading was gil given en by eleanor guymon accompanied by marge black entitled A little parable for others mothers talk by phil hurst song behind the clouds by josephine bayles A talk by albert R lyman violin duet glinc going g home by hyrum porter and joe hunt accompanied by mamie adams on the hammond organ benediction by willard guymon the grave was dedicated by guy R hurst |
