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Personal data Sarah Jane Lee 

• She was born on March 3, 1838 in Luck Creek, Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois, United States.
• (MARR) about 1878 in Beaver, Beaver Co.,, Utrecht, Nederland.

  Spouse: George McCook Underwood

• She died on March 27, 1915 in Panguitch, Garfield County, Utah, United States, she was 77 years old.
• She is buried on March 29, 1915 in Panguitch, Garfield County, Utah, United States.
• A child of John Doyle Lee and Agatha Ann Woolsey

Household of Sarah Jane Lee

Notes about Sarah Jane Lee

Sarah Jane Lee: The third wife of Charles Wakeman Dalton. 1915 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah.heir bodies were brought home from Carthage Jail, she cried bitterly. One day the Prophet's mother took her into a room of the Smith home, which had an unused fireplace with a curtain around it and showed her the Egyptian mummies Joseph had received., who died on the trail soon after they crossed the Missouri River. The company eventually arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1848. She lived around with her folks, as circumstances would permit, until she was fifteen years old, and then was persuaded to marry a polygamist, as the third wife of Charles Dalton. The ceremony was performed by George A. Smith. She had three children before she was twenty. She was in love with a young man when she married Dalton, so was not very happy with him. Dalton married three other women after he married Sarah Jane, one of who was Lucinda Lee. Not related.arah Jane wanted her children to attend school. In order to pay for their tuition, she cleaned Lucinda's home, as well as doing the washing, ironing, and other various jobs for her. Sarah Jane always had to work very hard to educate and support her growing family since her husband provided very poorly for them.d to leave him and make a go of it on her own. A bishop's trial was held and she was granted a divorce. He was present at the proceedings and gave his consent for the separation. He gave her a small one-room house, which she sold for $150.00, and applied the money on a $600.00 home. She found a job at Minersville, Utah as proprietress of a hotel and finished making the payments on the home. Dalton gave her boys a small piece of land, a team of horses, and a few cows, which they turned over to the United Order, and came out of it with nothing. This experience embittered them to the extent that they did very little for or in the church thereafter. They worked very hard, however, to help their mother until they married and made homes for themselves. old, she met and married George McCook Underwood, who had come to Beaver when the army was stationed at Fort Cameron, just outside the town. He was a blacksmith and worked for the soldiers at the fort. On June 29, 1869 she had her tenth child, whom she named Lucy. She still had to work hard helping to provide for her family. After George left the service of the army, they moved to Marysvale, Pieta Co. Utah, to work in the mines, which were booming at that time. She divorced him while living there because of his heavy drinking, and moved to Beaver. Underwood went to Panguitch and put up a blacksmith shop, the only one in the vicinity for many years. He was an expert in this line, and could have made money but he continued drinking. Not many years before his death, he quit drinking and threw away his tobacco, tea, and coffee.d Underwood and lived with him until his death. Her worldly possessions were limited. They lived in a small frame house first and then in a two-room house across the street from the church. The third home they bought was a small house one block west of the church where they lived until both had passed away.Jul 1826 in Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania. Charles died 18 Jun 1883 in Beaver, Beaver Co. Utah. They had 9 children.orn 25 Dec 1830 in West Middleburg, Columbiana, Ohio, the son of Jacob Underwood and Nancy Via. George died 3 Jun 1912 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, and was buried 5 Jun 1912 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah. They had one child.d of John Doyle Lee and Agatha Ann Woolsey, his first wife. Since the two older children died before their second birthdays, Sarah Jane was, in effect, the oldest child. She was just a month or two old when her parents accepted the restored gospel and moved to the vicinity of Far West, Missouri. They arrived in Far West on June 4 and first saw the Prophet Joseph Smith on June 10, and heard him speak on the same day. They then settled some twenty miles southeast of Far West, where they were baptized on Sunday, June 17, 1838. It was a beautiful location for a home, land with deep, rich soil, a fine stream of water, a clump of trees for firewood, and a small lake teeming with fish. They soon built a small sod house and had some crops growing.e anti-Mormon trouble in November, 1838. Agatha Ann stayed at the farm with the baby. Mobs were ranging over the countryside, burning and looting. Lee was "examined" by General Wilson and was ordered to accompany the troops to Adam-ondi-Ahman since it was known that he lived in the vicinity. He received a report that his house had been burned, so as they approached the vicinity he asked for, and received, permission to go on ahead.ittle Sarah were huddled together in the shelter of the unburned corner, over which they had put some boards and a piece of canvas. A small fire burned in front, and a pile of brush and sticks was at one side, enough to keep it burning through the night.o much snow that they could not travel, so they turned back toward Par West. It was mid-February before John D. Lee and his family finally started again for Vandalia, Illinois. in early April 1840, where ultimately they had a fine home, with all the conveniences possible for that time. Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed, as she lived near the Smith home, and when their bodies were brought from Carthage she cried bitterly. One day the Prophet's mother took her into a room of the Smith home 'and showed her the Egyptian mummies Joseph had received.orn meal, dried beans, wheat, salt pork, etc. Sarah Jane was just a day past her 9th birthday. Her father, although he kept the official records of the church at the time, says little of his family affairs, but on Saturday, 2 May, 1846, he wrote: "This morning I lay rather late, having neither bread nor meat in my tents, and having 28 persons to feed. I knew not where to go. However, I got up and walked east and soon met a man who offered to lend me both flour and bacon." ar that there was sickness in camp, for on that day Presidents Young and Kimball "laid hands" on the head of Sarah Jane, and prayed for her recovery, and later in the evening President Young administered to her brother, John Brigham Lee. anta Fe and bring back the soldiers' pay. He returned late in November and set about building cabins for his families. They were made of logs, with sod roofs, and were covered inside and out with mud. ouses were built, and vegetable plots were assigned to each family. The people raised good crops and were thus provided with a greater variety of foods. wagons, and in company with Brigham Young and a combined company of 623 wagons, not counting those under Willard Richards, pulled out of Winter Quarters for the trip to the Great Salt Lake Valley. When Sarah crossed the plains with her father's company at the age of eleven she walked most of the way with her aged grandmother, Abigail Shaffer, who died on the trail at the last crossing of the Sweet- water River, a few miles short of South Pass in Wyoming. Her father buried a load of grain he was hauling and used the wagon box to make a coffin for her grandmother to be buried in. g and wading streams they became very tired and the grandmother had frequently to be taken into the wagon to rest. One evening after they had walked all-day they made camp in a canyon near two graves. Abigail walked around the graves and then said to Sarah Jane, "How would you like to leave me beside them" During the night she was stricken with mountain fever and died within forty-eight hours. Sarah Jane was very lonely without her grandmother and cried much because of leaving her at so lonely a spot. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley at the end of September. Lee was assigned a lot in town and a farm eight miles out, in the cottonwood area. Agatha and Sarah Jane were among those who moved out to the farm early, where they had fuel nearby and feed for the cows. first to be called to settle in the south and work the iron deposits, in December1850. However Agatha had two very small children, so he took two of his other wives south that winter. The record does not tell just when Sarah Jane went south, but it was probably in the fall of 1851.s Wakeman Dalton. The ceremony was performed by George A. Smith. She was in love with a younger man so she was not very happy in this marriage. She became a mother for the third time before she was twenty years of age. She always had to work very hard to support and educate her growing family. She traveled around quite often, and her various moves can be reconstructed, in part, from what we know of the places where her children were born: 1863. Sarah Vilate, at Fillmore in 1866, and the three younger ones at Beaver in 1869, 1871, and 1879. that he visited his daughter, Sarah Jane Dalton in Salt Lake City in December 1857. She was living there at that time. It was on this trip that he met and courted Emma Batchelor. The story, as told by Juanita Brooks, "The next morning he took Emma and Sarah Jane to the city to shop. They were almost the same age, these two, and were as much at home with each other as if they had been two sisters. He let them have their pictures taken together; he had his own done, too, but alone. He bought each of them a pretty fascinator to go around her shoulders and a lace handkerchief to carry. He took Sarah Jane home first, for though it was early afternoon, her two children would need her." a go of it on her own. A Bishop's trial was held and she was granted a divorce. Dalton was present at the proceedings and gave his consent, and gave her a small one room house, which she sold for $150 and applied the money on a $600 home. He gave her boys a small piece of land, a team of horses, and a few cows, which they turned over to the United Order, and came out of it with nothing, which experience embittered them toward the Church. However, they worked very hard to help their mother until they arrived and made homes for themselves. le, Utah, as proprietress of a hotel and finished making the payments an her house. When her youngest child was about seven years of age she met and married George McCook Underwood, who had come to Beaver when the soldiers were stationed at Ft. Cameron, just outside the town. He was a blacksmith and worked for the soldiers at the fort. cy. She still had to work hard helping to provide for her family. After George left the service of the Army they moved to Marysvale to work in the mines that were booming at the time. While living there she divorced Underwood because of his heavy drinking, and moved back to Beaver. Underwood went to Panguitch and built a blacksmith shop, the only one in the vicinity for many years. He was an expert in this line of work, and could have made good money had it not been for his drinking.ld for money and provisions. Then she remarried Underwood, and lived with him in Panguitch until he died.d for a printing office. Then they lived in a two-room house across the street from where the chapel was built in 1958. They later moved a block away, where they lived until they both passed away. Sarah Jane Lee Dalton Underwood died on March 27, 1915. Her grave is near the center of the Panguitch Cemetery, marked by a square sided stone. She is identified simply as Sarah Jane Underwood. Jane was a faithful Latter-Day Saint and did all she could to teach her children the gospel as she understood it. She had them all baptized, though the records are missing for six of them. She was a Relief Society teacher for fifty years; she cared for the sick when called upon and went into the homes of her children to give aid when she was needed. Soon after the death of her mother, Agatha Ann Woolsey Lee, her younger sister, Louisa, became very ill and was sent to Sarah Jane to be cared for. Henretta, was treated so cruelly by her husband that it nearly broke her mother's heart. She reared two of this daughter's children, after they ran away from their father. She also raised three of her daughter Agatha Ann's children after their mother's death.ife afforded her. grand- mother. Perhaps, by preserving this bit of her history we can begin to understand and appreciate the brave pioneer woman that she was and the difficulties under which she persevered to raise her large family. n) Orton. BRC. ''Mar 14 2016, 20:38:54 UTC''

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