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Title: Sarah W. Snow autobiographical sketch, 1892

Call Number: MS 9285

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March 15th 1892
I was born January 2nd 1840
in the town of Nelson Portage. Co Ohio. am the
fourth child of Edwin Whiting and Elizabeth
Partridge Tillotson Whiting. My parents joined the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints in an
early day and soon joined the saints in Farwest
Calwell Co. Missiouri. while there my father
with others of our brethren were called to come
forward and farm a hallow square and lay
down their arm by order of Governor Boggs
my father moved from this state into a small
settlement called Lima in Illinois while in
this place a mob gathered some 30 in number
and alowing the women to carry their beds and
a few articles outside they set fire to our houses
which were mostly log. the men having left
the place to save their lives although I was
very young at the time can well remember
the scene and also the burning of my Fathers
large chair shop. Our next resting place
was at Nauvoo Illinois stoping one year
while here my brother Edwin Lucius Whiting
was born. My Mother was one of the first of
these noble women to give their consent for their
husband to take more wives. My father had two
wives sealed to him in the temple at Nauvoo after
he came here he had two more making five.
from Nauvoo we traveled west stoping at

 

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Mount Pisga Iowa here we remained some three
years my parents passed through all the drivings
and mobings in Missouri and Illinois. In
the spring of 1849 with my Parents started across
the plains with ox teams arriving in the great Salt
Lake city some time in October. Father with others
was called to go to Sanpete Valley the same
fall under the Leadership of Father Morley to make
a Settlement arrived at the place now called Manti
late in November the brethren hastly dug into
the South side of the Hill where now stands the
beautiful Temple putting on a dirt roof where
we passed the winter we soon built on our
city lots. but was forced to build forts and
move into them as the Indians had become Heusatil.
My father suffered a great deal from the
loss of stock that the Indians drove off. I was
married to Warren Stone Snow April 20,1857
My husband being one of the first to join
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
when a boy lived with the Prophet Joseph Smith
a short time as errand boy. he arrived in Manti
1851 soon after he reached Manti he was chosen
and ordained Bishop which position he held
some six or eight years. When the Black Hawk
war broke out he was appointed General the war
lasted three years in a skirmish with the

 

 

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Indians he was wounded in the arm by a
ball from one of the Indians he with others
lost a great deal of property such as horses and
cattle. I am the mother of three children

Edwin Marion Snow born Manti November
21st twenty first 1859. Clara Eliszabeth Snow.
born Manti Jan 5 1862 in the year 1865 I
moved to Springville here my youngest son
Daniel Wells Snow was bornApril 18th 1873

Soon after I joined the Springville ward I
became a member of the Relief Society have been
acting as Teacher some ten years. My son Edwin
M. Snow was married to Francis Evaline Terry
April 9th  1883. Clara Snow was married to
William Thomas Tew Jan 31st 1884. This I
have written to my children and grandchildren
I enclose my photograph for one of this is
adressed to.
From your mother and grandmother
Sarah C Snow

 

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