Daughter of John Lounsberrie Sloat and Catherine Crast. Mother of 9 children and Relief Society President for many years. Sarah kept a diary from 1872 to 1910 filling 11 volumes.
Deseret Evening News, 2 July 1910:
At Burrville, Sevier County, Utah, Sarah Burr, better known as Grandma Burr, widow of Charles C. Burr, died June 18, 1910. She was born in Schoharie, Schoharie county, New York, June 6, 1827. Her parents were John and Catherine Sloat, of German descent. In 1834 she married Charles C. Burr and they, with his father Nathan, cast their lot with the Mormons and joined the famous Sam Brannan Company (Ship Brooklyn) and sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco, where they lived until the spring of 1848, when, in company with some of the Mormon Battalion boys, they came to Salt Lake City, and settled in the First Ward, sharing all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. In the spring of 1858 while her husband was in Echo canyon, she moved to Payson and was joined later by her husband. Again the hardships of pioneering were endured. They lived in Payson until the autumn of 1874 when the family moved to Grass Valley in Sevier county where again pioneer life was taken up and the hardships lived over. She resided in this place since that time. She was a stanch Latter-day Saint and filled the office of Relief Society president for several years, was a mother and kind friend to all, being noted for her hospitality to friend and stranger. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom survive her, also 50 grandchildren and 102 great-grandchildren. Hew husband died in 1903.
Deseret Evening News, 2 July 1910:
At Burrville, Sevier County, Utah, Sarah Burr, better known as Grandma Burr, widow of Charles C. Burr, died June 18, 1910. She was born in Schoharie, Schoharie county, New York, June 6, 1827. Her parents were John and Catherine Sloat, of German descent. In 1834 she married Charles C. Burr and they, with his father Nathan, cast their lot with the Mormons and joined the famous Sam Brannan Company (Ship Brooklyn) and sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco, where they lived until the spring of 1848, when, in company with some of the Mormon Battalion boys, they came to Salt Lake City, and settled in the First Ward, sharing all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. In the spring of 1858 while her husband was in Echo canyon, she moved to Payson and was joined later by her husband. Again the hardships of pioneering were endured. They lived in Payson until the autumn of 1874 when the family moved to Grass Valley in Sevier county where again pioneer life was taken up and the hardships lived over. She resided in this place since that time. She was a stanch Latter-day Saint and filled the office of Relief Society president for several years, was a mother and kind friend to all, being noted for her hospitality to friend and stranger. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom survive her, also 50 grandchildren and 102 great-grandchildren. Hew husband died in 1903.
Daughter of John Lounsberrie Sloat and Catherine Crast. Mother of 9 children and Relief Society President for many years. Sarah kept a diary from 1872 to 1910 filling 11 volumes.
Deseret Evening News, 2 July 1910:
At Burrville, Sevier County, Utah, Sarah Burr, better known as Grandma Burr, widow of Charles C. Burr, died June 18, 1910. She was born in Schoharie, Schoharie county, New York, June 6, 1827. Her parents were John and Catherine Sloat, of German descent. In 1834 she married Charles C. Burr and they, with his father Nathan, cast their lot with the Mormons and joined the famous Sam Brannan Company (Ship Brooklyn) and sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco, where they lived until the spring of 1848, when, in company with some of the Mormon Battalion boys, they came to Salt Lake City, and settled in the First Ward, sharing all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. In the spring of 1858 while her husband was in Echo canyon, she moved to Payson and was joined later by her husband. Again the hardships of pioneering were endured. They lived in Payson until the autumn of 1874 when the family moved to Grass Valley in Sevier county where again pioneer life was taken up and the hardships lived over. She resided in this place since that time. She was a stanch Latter-day Saint and filled the office of Relief Society president for several years, was a mother and kind friend to all, being noted for her hospitality to friend and stranger. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom survive her, also 50 grandchildren and 102 great-grandchildren. Hew husband died in 1903.
Deseret Evening News, 2 July 1910:
At Burrville, Sevier County, Utah, Sarah Burr, better known as Grandma Burr, widow of Charles C. Burr, died June 18, 1910. She was born in Schoharie, Schoharie county, New York, June 6, 1827. Her parents were John and Catherine Sloat, of German descent. In 1834 she married Charles C. Burr and they, with his father Nathan, cast their lot with the Mormons and joined the famous Sam Brannan Company (Ship Brooklyn) and sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco, where they lived until the spring of 1848, when, in company with some of the Mormon Battalion boys, they came to Salt Lake City, and settled in the First Ward, sharing all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. In the spring of 1858 while her husband was in Echo canyon, she moved to Payson and was joined later by her husband. Again the hardships of pioneering were endured. They lived in Payson until the autumn of 1874 when the family moved to Grass Valley in Sevier county where again pioneer life was taken up and the hardships lived over. She resided in this place since that time. She was a stanch Latter-day Saint and filled the office of Relief Society president for several years, was a mother and kind friend to all, being noted for her hospitality to friend and stranger. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom survive her, also 50 grandchildren and 102 great-grandchildren. Hew husband died in 1903.
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