Daughter of Josiah & Tryphena Smith Blackman
She was the 1st wife of Nelson Higgins on 14 Dec 1826 in Fitchville, Huron, OH.
Children:
Alonzo, Almira, Alfred, Drusilla, Nelson Daniel, Heber Kimball, Carlos Smith, Clarissa, Weltha Matilda, and Sarah Alice Higgins.
In the year 1834, four years after the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, they with their four children became members of the church and endured all the persecutions inflicted upon the Saints in Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri.
When the Saints were forced to leave Nauvoo, again, they with their children, left their home and possessions. While at Council Bluffs, her husband was appointed Captain of Company D, in the Mormon Battalion. Sarah and their children accompanied him on the march. Sarah, with her kind and gracious spirit, added much to the morale of the group.
At the last crossing of the Arkansas River, the commanding officer gave the orders that some of the women and children, who had accompanied them as far as Santa Fe, be detached and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado. There were many sick men at Fort Pueblo.
If it had not been for the tender nursing care of Sarah and the other women of the Battalion many more deaths would have occurred. When spring came they journeyed on to Salt Lake Valley then known as Deseret.
Shortly after their arrival into the Salt Lake Valley Sarah and her family were called with fifty other families to settle the Sanpete County area.
Sarah was a weaver. She wove most of the material and made the clothing worn by her family. In 1852, she had her tenth child, a little girl. Three years later they were called to go to Carson City, Nevada, to assist in establishing colonies. After two years of more hardships and privations, they returned to Utah.
The following spring, in 1858, they returned to Sanpete County. Sarah said she would never forget the hearty welcome they received from older members of their family, neighbors, and friends. They were then called to assist in the settling of Moroni in Sanpete County. While living here Sarah passed away on August 18, 1864, at the age of fifty-eight.
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**THIS IS NOT HER BURIAL-JUST HER MEMORIAL**
She was the 1st wife of Nelson Higgins on 14 Dec 1826 in Fitchville, Huron, OH.
Children:
Alonzo, Almira, Alfred, Drusilla, Nelson Daniel, Heber Kimball, Carlos Smith, Clarissa, Weltha Matilda, and Sarah Alice Higgins.
In the year 1834, four years after the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, they with their four children became members of the church and endured all the persecutions inflicted upon the Saints in Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri.
When the Saints were forced to leave Nauvoo, again, they with their children, left their home and possessions. While at Council Bluffs, her husband was appointed Captain of Company D, in the Mormon Battalion. Sarah and their children accompanied him on the march. Sarah, with her kind and gracious spirit, added much to the morale of the group.
At the last crossing of the Arkansas River, the commanding officer gave the orders that some of the women and children, who had accompanied them as far as Santa Fe, be detached and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado. There were many sick men at Fort Pueblo.
If it had not been for the tender nursing care of Sarah and the other women of the Battalion many more deaths would have occurred. When spring came they journeyed on to Salt Lake Valley then known as Deseret.
Shortly after their arrival into the Salt Lake Valley Sarah and her family were called with fifty other families to settle the Sanpete County area.
Sarah was a weaver. She wove most of the material and made the clothing worn by her family. In 1852, she had her tenth child, a little girl. Three years later they were called to go to Carson City, Nevada, to assist in establishing colonies. After two years of more hardships and privations, they returned to Utah.
The following spring, in 1858, they returned to Sanpete County. Sarah said she would never forget the hearty welcome they received from older members of their family, neighbors, and friends. They were then called to assist in the settling of Moroni in Sanpete County. While living here Sarah passed away on August 18, 1864, at the age of fifty-eight.
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**THIS IS NOT HER BURIAL-JUST HER MEMORIAL**
Daughter of Josiah & Tryphena Smith Blackman
She was the 1st wife of Nelson Higgins on 14 Dec 1826 in Fitchville, Huron, OH.
Children:
Alonzo, Almira, Alfred, Drusilla, Nelson Daniel, Heber Kimball, Carlos Smith, Clarissa, Weltha Matilda, and Sarah Alice Higgins.
In the year 1834, four years after the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, they with their four children became members of the church and endured all the persecutions inflicted upon the Saints in Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri.
When the Saints were forced to leave Nauvoo, again, they with their children, left their home and possessions. While at Council Bluffs, her husband was appointed Captain of Company D, in the Mormon Battalion. Sarah and their children accompanied him on the march. Sarah, with her kind and gracious spirit, added much to the morale of the group.
At the last crossing of the Arkansas River, the commanding officer gave the orders that some of the women and children, who had accompanied them as far as Santa Fe, be detached and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado. There were many sick men at Fort Pueblo.
If it had not been for the tender nursing care of Sarah and the other women of the Battalion many more deaths would have occurred. When spring came they journeyed on to Salt Lake Valley then known as Deseret.
Shortly after their arrival into the Salt Lake Valley Sarah and her family were called with fifty other families to settle the Sanpete County area.
Sarah was a weaver. She wove most of the material and made the clothing worn by her family. In 1852, she had her tenth child, a little girl. Three years later they were called to go to Carson City, Nevada, to assist in establishing colonies. After two years of more hardships and privations, they returned to Utah.
The following spring, in 1858, they returned to Sanpete County. Sarah said she would never forget the hearty welcome they received from older members of their family, neighbors, and friends. They were then called to assist in the settling of Moroni in Sanpete County. While living here Sarah passed away on August 18, 1864, at the age of fifty-eight.
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**THIS IS NOT HER BURIAL-JUST HER MEMORIAL**
She was the 1st wife of Nelson Higgins on 14 Dec 1826 in Fitchville, Huron, OH.
Children:
Alonzo, Almira, Alfred, Drusilla, Nelson Daniel, Heber Kimball, Carlos Smith, Clarissa, Weltha Matilda, and Sarah Alice Higgins.
In the year 1834, four years after the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, they with their four children became members of the church and endured all the persecutions inflicted upon the Saints in Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri.
When the Saints were forced to leave Nauvoo, again, they with their children, left their home and possessions. While at Council Bluffs, her husband was appointed Captain of Company D, in the Mormon Battalion. Sarah and their children accompanied him on the march. Sarah, with her kind and gracious spirit, added much to the morale of the group.
At the last crossing of the Arkansas River, the commanding officer gave the orders that some of the women and children, who had accompanied them as far as Santa Fe, be detached and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado. There were many sick men at Fort Pueblo.
If it had not been for the tender nursing care of Sarah and the other women of the Battalion many more deaths would have occurred. When spring came they journeyed on to Salt Lake Valley then known as Deseret.
Shortly after their arrival into the Salt Lake Valley Sarah and her family were called with fifty other families to settle the Sanpete County area.
Sarah was a weaver. She wove most of the material and made the clothing worn by her family. In 1852, she had her tenth child, a little girl. Three years later they were called to go to Carson City, Nevada, to assist in establishing colonies. After two years of more hardships and privations, they returned to Utah.
The following spring, in 1858, they returned to Sanpete County. Sarah said she would never forget the hearty welcome they received from older members of their family, neighbors, and friends. They were then called to assist in the settling of Moroni in Sanpete County. While living here Sarah passed away on August 18, 1864, at the age of fifty-eight.
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**THIS IS NOT HER BURIAL-JUST HER MEMORIAL**
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