Daughter of John Heward and Elizabeth Terry

Married Moroni Stocks, 2 Jan 1865, Rockville, Washington, Utah

Children - Moroni Heward Stocks, Sarah Rachel Stocks, Wallace Hunter Stocks, Mary Elizabeth Stocks, Edwin Murry Stocks, James Hailey Stocks, John Carter Stocks, Henry Stocks, Luella Stocks, William Heber Stocks, Effie Stocks, Cora Stocks, Eva Stocks

History. Sarah Heward Stocks, daughter of John Heward and Elizabeth Terry, was born on Mosquito Creek, Pottawatomie Co., Iowa, on March 4, 1848. The family was driven from Missouri, leaving all they had behind. In the early part of spring, in raw, bleak weather, they camped upon the banks of this creek, where this child of faith was born. In that same year her parents came to Salt Lake City in Zera Pullsifer's Company. Elizabeth, Sarah's mother, walked the entire distance, that the baby might ride. The company were five months making the journey. After residing at Salt Lake for an indefinite period, the family moved to Jordan and then to Union Fort, and later to Draper.

The family at this early time lived in the most abject poverty. At one time a cow belonging to the father became so sick, it was necessary to kill it; the family ate the meat. The oxen died and John was left without animals. The children gathered up brush to burn for firewood. They wore clogs or boots upon their feet. The mother, though a religious woman and zealous worker, was not blessed with the gift of making the best clothing out of meager and poor material which they were forced to use in those early years. As a result, Sarah was made fun of by unthinking associates. Being a shy, sensitive nature, this troubled her so greatly, her learning was set back on this account.

At the time Johnston's army came to Utah, the family were living at Mountainville, now called Alpine; there, a cousin gave Elizabeth a piece of wagon cover which was made into a dress for Sarah. In that early day, the woolen rolls came home from the factory covered with a cotton cloth. Elizabeth painted a red bud and two green leaves in an all-over pattern on the cotton cloth and the cousin made her perhaps the most beautiful dress she had ever possessed. The family again moved back to Draper, where they dried greens for their winter provisions.

At the age of 15, her mother allowed her to go to Dixie with her Uncle George and Aunt Emma Terry. Aunt Emma was a gifted women in sewing; she made pretty clothing for Sarah, who, being an unusually beautiful child, at the dances became the bell of Tocqueville. Here she met Moroni Stocks and at the age of 17 she married him. The boy did not have second shirt on his back and was compelled to borrow a suit to be married in. Sarah made him a second shirt out of her petticoat, then spun and wove wool on shares and made herself another petticoat and her husband another shirt. Biscuits were rationed out to last them for certain periods. Grain had to be sent 150 miles to be ground. Sarah and Moroni ate musty meal until their stomachs revolted. Moroni killed an ox to relieve this situation.

The Indians became so troublesome, they felt they must leave and go to Draper, taking weeks to make the journey, driving a yoke of oxen. In this they recognized the hand of the Lord, as a little later the people whom they had left were all killed. Moroni and Sarah could both speak the Piute Indian language. The forced stay in Salt Lake saved their lives.

The first son, Heward, was born at Draper on Dec 2, 1865. Sarah knit socks in return for one and a half pounds of tallow for a light for the new born babe. Five children were born at Draper. Sarah did the spinning and weaving for the entire family.

The family moved to Lewiston, Utah in 1873. Here eight more children were born. Thirteen children, all of who lived to be married before any deaths occurred.

Sarah spent her life in generous service for others, traveling for miles in all kinds of weather and at all times of day and night to perform services now rendered by skilled physicians, that her friends and neighbors might get relief. She served as president of the Lewiston Primary for 19 years and even today, many years after her death, is remembered and beloved by those whom she taught.