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Stevenson
,
Sarah
Elnora
White
Birth and Death Dates
1831-1915
Call Number
MSS
8
Material Type
Biography
Biography
Sarah
Elnora
White
Stevenson
was
born
November
18
,
1831
to
Joseph
White
and
Ruby
Elnora
Sterns
in
Palmyra
,
Jefferson
County
,
New
York
. A
few
years
later
, the
family
moved
to
Ohio
,
where
the
family
was
converted
to The
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
of
Latter-day
Saints
. The
family
moved
to
Nauvoo
,
Illinois
, and there, in
1840
,
Joseph
joined
the
Nauvoo
Legion
,
remaining
a
guard
until
the
martyrdom
of
Joseph
and
Hyrum
Smith
.
Before
the
martyrdom
, the
family
had
moved
to
Carthage
and then
Bear
Creek
. In the
spring
of
1844
, the
family
moved
back
to
Nauvoo
, and in
1846
, to
Council
Bluffs
.
Sarah's
father
volunteered
to
join
the
Mormon
Battalion
and to
fight
in
Mexico
, and he
joined
his
family
later
in
1847
in
Utah
. There,
Sarah's
mother
taught
school
to
provide
for the
children
.
Sarah
began
work
in
various
places
after
her
father's
death
, and at the
age
of
twenty
, she
married
James
Stevenson
. They
lived
with
Sarah's
mother
for a
year
before
moving
into their
own
home
in
1853
in
Farmington
.
Just
after
adding
two
rooms
onto their
house
, they were
called
to
go
south
, in
avoidance
of
Johnston's
army
. They
returned
to their
home
not
long
after
, and they had
eleven
children
.
Sarah
died
January
12
,
1915
at the
age
of
83
.
Abstract
This
is
a
three-page
typescript
biography
included
in the
Margaret
Steed
Hess
collection
. The
biography
begins
with a
brief
sketch
of
Sarah's
parents
and
continues
with
Sarah's
childhood
. She
recalls
playing
in the
Carthage
jail
with the
jail
keeper's
daughter
and
even
remembers
dangling
her
feet
from the
window
from
which
Joseph
Smith
fell
.
It
was
unsafe
for
Mormons
during
this
time
,
however
, and at
one
point
, the
family
was
forced
to
hide
in the
cellar
of a
friend's
home
while
the
house
was
guarded
.
During
the
trek
west
,
Sarah
took
turns
with her
brother
,
driving
a
team
of
oxen
.
When
she
wasn't
driving
the
oxen
, she
rode
a
horse
and
drove
cattle
.
During
the
trek
, a
boy
and
girl
about
nineteen
years
old
had
gone
for a
walk
and were
kidnapped
by
Indians
; they were
traded
back
for a
yoke
of the
company's
best
oxen
.
Later
, the
pioneers
contracted
cholera
from the
Indians
, and of the
fifty
who
contracted
it
,
ten
died
,
including
the
company's
captain
. At
night
, the
company
formed
a
corral
, to
protect
themselves
and the
animals
from
buffalo
,
Indians
, and
wolves
.
Once
during
the
trip
,
some
buffalo
frightened
the
oxen
and
caused
a
stampede
,
which
set
the
company
back
two
days
because
they had to
find
the
oxen
and
return
them to
camp
. The
manuscript
also
describes
a
close
accident
of
when
,
while
fording
the
river
,
some
of the
travelers
nearly
drowned
. On
Sundays
, the
company
rested
, and
during
recreation
periods
, the
pioneers
sang
,
played
music
, and
danced
.
After
reaching
Utah
,
Sarah's
father
went
to
California
in
search
of
gold
.
While
gone
,
Sarah
and her
brother
cut
an
acre
of
wheat
,
shocked
it
, and
thrashed
it
. Their
father
returned
sick
and
later
died
.
One
of the
last
stories
in the
manuscript
is
that of a
woman
who
spoke
in
tongues
to the
Indians
and
thus
persuaded
the
Indians
not to
kill
the
people
. She
served
them
dinner
and
gave
them
blankets
in
exchange
for
peace
.
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