Daughter of Almon Linus Fullmer and Sarah Ann Follett

Married Thomas Samuel Priday, 11 Mar 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Sidney Preston Priday, Ella Tryphinia Priday, Charles DeWitt Priday, Ida Roana Priday, Sarah Florence Nellie Priday, Pearl Victoria Priday, Thomas Samuel Priday, Chloe Avina Priday, Dora Elizabeth Priday

History - Sarah Ann was born in 1848 in Laramie, on the morning of July 24, 1848 just before the watchman cried “Two o’ clock-all is well.” Her parents were traveling with the first division of organized emigration under the direction of Brigham Young with Daniel H. wells as Aid-de-camp.
They had left Elkhorn River on June 1, 1848 an arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley, September 20-24, 1848. There were 1,229 souls and 397 wagons, 74 horses, 19 mules,1,275 oxen, 699 cows, 184 loose cattle, 411 sheep, 141 pigs, 605 chickens, 37 cats, 82 dogs, 3 goats, 10 geese, 8 doves and 1 crow.

Sarah Ann lived in Salt Lake City and received a fine education with Karl G. Maeser and Milton H. Harding being two of her teachers. This schooling enabled her to later create in her own home an atmosphere of charm, culture and intellectual training.

She later taught school for two years. During this time she met Thomas Samuel Priday, a stone cutter who was working on the Salt Lake Temple. Thomas had recently emigrated from England.

Sarah and Thomas were married in the Endowment House on March 11, 1869 with Daniel H. Wells officiating. There first home was in Salt Lake City. In 1871, this family moved to Providence, Cache Valley, at the extreme west end of Providence lane near the sugar factory.

Sarah Ann was always an extreme optimist. After the horde of crickets had devoured everything in their garden but the onions, Sarah Ann turned to her husband and said, “Be grateful they did not eat the onions.

Thomas passed away in 1915 in Logan, Cache County, Utah and is buried in the city cemetery there. Sarah Ann passed away on November 19, 1928 at eighty years of age. She had been a widow for thirteen years.

Sarah Ann was truly a great pioneer woman who had lived well, had learned much and used her knowledge and talents to share with others. Her optimistic outlook on life is a trait that her posterity has emulated.