• Sarah Ann traveled with a company of non-Mormon Iowans who were headed toward California in 1852. The party stopped at Salt Lake city for the winter; while here some members the Cooke family, including Sarah Ann herself, converted to the faith.

  In some sources, the family's surname is spelled "Cook."

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 43

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census
• 1860 Utah Census, Salt Lake County.
• Covered Wagon Women, vol. 4, p. 209, 243.
• Deseret Dramatic Association, Minute Book, in Salt Lake Theatre collection, Oct. 1852.