Sarah's parents were Jacob and Sarah (Hill) Strong. She married Samuel Wilson in Pennsylvania and had several children. Some of them being: William born 1840, Jacob, Susan, Lucinda Jane, Mary Ann, James Samuel and Utah Elizabeth born 1859. Samuel died about 1860 and later she married Josiah Franklin in January of 1887 in Clackamas County, OR.
LETTER written by Sarah (Strong) Wilson to her brother, James T. Strong, in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 7, 1880. Copied as she wrote it in 1880: (ejc)
Dear Brother, I will try to write a few lines to let you know that I am alive yet and well as common. I am ashamed of my neglect of writing to you but I have had a good deal of trouble in the last year. My daughter and her husband in Illinoise both died a year ago last November. One died the 24th and the other the 26th and left five children, an infant 4 days old. It died a month old. There are two boys and two girls. One boy 14 years old. We have him and the others are in an Illinois orphant home. I sent and got the girls but we could not keep them on account of their estate not being in Iowa and that caused me a good deal of trouble.
Well all my folks were well when I left them two weeks ago. I am in Council Bluffs. My daughter and family are here and I am heare visiting. We have sold our farms this Spring. I do not know where we will go to but we will stay on it a year from May. William is going to look for land this summer. I don't know if it will be in cancis or Nebraska. The two boys want to go where they can get good range for stock for farming does not pay as well as stock for the grasshopper eat all the small graine last year but we had good corn crops. The hoppers hatched last yeare here but ther is no eggs this year. Don't know how it well be. The Inglish from the old country are a coming by the hole car loades and bying land in our country.
There is a Latter-day Saint church hear in the Bluffs, My son-in-law belongs to them. I for my part belong to the Methodist Church but there is only one way to get to heavan, that by sincere praing and being a good Christian and I want to seave god and I hope that all the rest of you are trying to do the same that if we never meet in this world that we will meet in the happy world to come where we will part no more. And I want all of you to pray for me that I might be a good Christian. I feel to thank god for my health. I make my home with Utah. She had three little girls but God called the second one home to Him last August the 22. She was two years and 4 months olde.
I do not work very hard now. Thank God I have good children to me and that is a grate comfort to me. There is none of them rich but what is riches.
But now I must ask if my deare olde Mother is alive. I do not expect she is but if she is not I hope that she is happy for I want to meet her in heaven.
Now I will have to quit for this time. I write this to all of you and hope you are all close together so you all can hear from me for I am such a poor writer and nervous. Please forgive me for not writing before now. Be so kind and write as soon as you get this, delay no time for I will stay here till May. I want you to tell be about all the folks. Direct to Council if you think it will get in Bluffs first of May. If not send to Lemars, Iowa
Now I bid you all good by for this time. May Good bless you all is my prayer and I hope this will find you all well, Write Soon
this from your Sister Sarah to James T. Strong and all the rest of her folk
LETTER written by Sarah (Strong) Wilson to her brother, James T. Strong, in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 7, 1880. Copied as she wrote it in 1880: (ejc)
Dear Brother, I will try to write a few lines to let you know that I am alive yet and well as common. I am ashamed of my neglect of writing to you but I have had a good deal of trouble in the last year. My daughter and her husband in Illinoise both died a year ago last November. One died the 24th and the other the 26th and left five children, an infant 4 days old. It died a month old. There are two boys and two girls. One boy 14 years old. We have him and the others are in an Illinois orphant home. I sent and got the girls but we could not keep them on account of their estate not being in Iowa and that caused me a good deal of trouble.
Well all my folks were well when I left them two weeks ago. I am in Council Bluffs. My daughter and family are here and I am heare visiting. We have sold our farms this Spring. I do not know where we will go to but we will stay on it a year from May. William is going to look for land this summer. I don't know if it will be in cancis or Nebraska. The two boys want to go where they can get good range for stock for farming does not pay as well as stock for the grasshopper eat all the small graine last year but we had good corn crops. The hoppers hatched last yeare here but ther is no eggs this year. Don't know how it well be. The Inglish from the old country are a coming by the hole car loades and bying land in our country.
There is a Latter-day Saint church hear in the Bluffs, My son-in-law belongs to them. I for my part belong to the Methodist Church but there is only one way to get to heavan, that by sincere praing and being a good Christian and I want to seave god and I hope that all the rest of you are trying to do the same that if we never meet in this world that we will meet in the happy world to come where we will part no more. And I want all of you to pray for me that I might be a good Christian. I feel to thank god for my health. I make my home with Utah. She had three little girls but God called the second one home to Him last August the 22. She was two years and 4 months olde.
I do not work very hard now. Thank God I have good children to me and that is a grate comfort to me. There is none of them rich but what is riches.
But now I must ask if my deare olde Mother is alive. I do not expect she is but if she is not I hope that she is happy for I want to meet her in heaven.
Now I will have to quit for this time. I write this to all of you and hope you are all close together so you all can hear from me for I am such a poor writer and nervous. Please forgive me for not writing before now. Be so kind and write as soon as you get this, delay no time for I will stay here till May. I want you to tell be about all the folks. Direct to Council if you think it will get in Bluffs first of May. If not send to Lemars, Iowa
Now I bid you all good by for this time. May Good bless you all is my prayer and I hope this will find you all well, Write Soon
this from your Sister Sarah to James T. Strong and all the rest of her folk
Sarah's parents were Jacob and Sarah (Hill) Strong. She married Samuel Wilson in Pennsylvania and had several children. Some of them being: William born 1840, Jacob, Susan, Lucinda Jane, Mary Ann, James Samuel and Utah Elizabeth born 1859. Samuel died about 1860 and later she married Josiah Franklin in January of 1887 in Clackamas County, OR.
LETTER written by Sarah (Strong) Wilson to her brother, James T. Strong, in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 7, 1880. Copied as she wrote it in 1880: (ejc)
Dear Brother, I will try to write a few lines to let you know that I am alive yet and well as common. I am ashamed of my neglect of writing to you but I have had a good deal of trouble in the last year. My daughter and her husband in Illinoise both died a year ago last November. One died the 24th and the other the 26th and left five children, an infant 4 days old. It died a month old. There are two boys and two girls. One boy 14 years old. We have him and the others are in an Illinois orphant home. I sent and got the girls but we could not keep them on account of their estate not being in Iowa and that caused me a good deal of trouble.
Well all my folks were well when I left them two weeks ago. I am in Council Bluffs. My daughter and family are here and I am heare visiting. We have sold our farms this Spring. I do not know where we will go to but we will stay on it a year from May. William is going to look for land this summer. I don't know if it will be in cancis or Nebraska. The two boys want to go where they can get good range for stock for farming does not pay as well as stock for the grasshopper eat all the small graine last year but we had good corn crops. The hoppers hatched last yeare here but ther is no eggs this year. Don't know how it well be. The Inglish from the old country are a coming by the hole car loades and bying land in our country.
There is a Latter-day Saint church hear in the Bluffs, My son-in-law belongs to them. I for my part belong to the Methodist Church but there is only one way to get to heavan, that by sincere praing and being a good Christian and I want to seave god and I hope that all the rest of you are trying to do the same that if we never meet in this world that we will meet in the happy world to come where we will part no more. And I want all of you to pray for me that I might be a good Christian. I feel to thank god for my health. I make my home with Utah. She had three little girls but God called the second one home to Him last August the 22. She was two years and 4 months olde.
I do not work very hard now. Thank God I have good children to me and that is a grate comfort to me. There is none of them rich but what is riches.
But now I must ask if my deare olde Mother is alive. I do not expect she is but if she is not I hope that she is happy for I want to meet her in heaven.
Now I will have to quit for this time. I write this to all of you and hope you are all close together so you all can hear from me for I am such a poor writer and nervous. Please forgive me for not writing before now. Be so kind and write as soon as you get this, delay no time for I will stay here till May. I want you to tell be about all the folks. Direct to Council if you think it will get in Bluffs first of May. If not send to Lemars, Iowa
Now I bid you all good by for this time. May Good bless you all is my prayer and I hope this will find you all well, Write Soon
this from your Sister Sarah to James T. Strong and all the rest of her folk
LETTER written by Sarah (Strong) Wilson to her brother, James T. Strong, in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 7, 1880. Copied as she wrote it in 1880: (ejc)
Dear Brother, I will try to write a few lines to let you know that I am alive yet and well as common. I am ashamed of my neglect of writing to you but I have had a good deal of trouble in the last year. My daughter and her husband in Illinoise both died a year ago last November. One died the 24th and the other the 26th and left five children, an infant 4 days old. It died a month old. There are two boys and two girls. One boy 14 years old. We have him and the others are in an Illinois orphant home. I sent and got the girls but we could not keep them on account of their estate not being in Iowa and that caused me a good deal of trouble.
Well all my folks were well when I left them two weeks ago. I am in Council Bluffs. My daughter and family are here and I am heare visiting. We have sold our farms this Spring. I do not know where we will go to but we will stay on it a year from May. William is going to look for land this summer. I don't know if it will be in cancis or Nebraska. The two boys want to go where they can get good range for stock for farming does not pay as well as stock for the grasshopper eat all the small graine last year but we had good corn crops. The hoppers hatched last yeare here but ther is no eggs this year. Don't know how it well be. The Inglish from the old country are a coming by the hole car loades and bying land in our country.
There is a Latter-day Saint church hear in the Bluffs, My son-in-law belongs to them. I for my part belong to the Methodist Church but there is only one way to get to heavan, that by sincere praing and being a good Christian and I want to seave god and I hope that all the rest of you are trying to do the same that if we never meet in this world that we will meet in the happy world to come where we will part no more. And I want all of you to pray for me that I might be a good Christian. I feel to thank god for my health. I make my home with Utah. She had three little girls but God called the second one home to Him last August the 22. She was two years and 4 months olde.
I do not work very hard now. Thank God I have good children to me and that is a grate comfort to me. There is none of them rich but what is riches.
But now I must ask if my deare olde Mother is alive. I do not expect she is but if she is not I hope that she is happy for I want to meet her in heaven.
Now I will have to quit for this time. I write this to all of you and hope you are all close together so you all can hear from me for I am such a poor writer and nervous. Please forgive me for not writing before now. Be so kind and write as soon as you get this, delay no time for I will stay here till May. I want you to tell be about all the folks. Direct to Council if you think it will get in Bluffs first of May. If not send to Lemars, Iowa
Now I bid you all good by for this time. May Good bless you all is my prayer and I hope this will find you all well, Write Soon
this from your Sister Sarah to James T. Strong and all the rest of her folk
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Sarah
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J. Franklin
Oct 2, 1896 Aged 74 years
(I believe this to be the date she was buried)
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