Anthony Willis family tree » Sarah Elizabeth Banks (1881-1965)

Données personnelles Sarah Elizabeth Banks 

• Elle est née le 25 juillet 1881 dans Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA.Les sources 1, 2
• Résidant:
• en l'an 1900: Chesterfield, Bancroft Precincts, Bannock, Idaho, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1900: ED 137 Chesterfield, Bancroft Precincts, Bannock, Idaho, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1914: Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1930: Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1935: Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1950: Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1955: Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.Source 1
• en l'an 1960: Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.Source 1
• (FamilySearch ID) : KWCB-1NN.
• Elle est décédée le 22 septembre 1965 dans Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA, elle avait 84 ans.Les sources 1, 2
• Elle est enterrée le 27 septembre 1965 dans Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Plot: 07.12 .05, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.Les sources 1, 2
• Un enfant de Willard Heber Banks et Esther Eunice Adamson

Famille de Sarah Elizabeth Banks

(1) Elle est mariée avec Ralph Creer.

Ils se sont mariés le 11 octobre 1905 à Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, elle avait 24 ans.Source 1

Enfant(s):

1. Verda Esther Creer  1902-1977
2. Willard Ray Creer  1904-1905
3. Florence Creer  1906-1923

(2) Elle est mariée avec Austin Clinton Miner.

Ils se sont mariés le 12 juin 1916 à Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, elle avait 34 ans.Source 1

Enfant(s):

1. Gordon Banks Miner  1917-2010
2. Neva Beth Miner  1921-2011

Enfant(s):

1. Thais Miner  1919-1995

Notes par Sarah Elizabeth Banks

SARAH ELIZABETH BANKS CREER MINER 1881 - 1965

I, Sarah Elizabeth Banks, was born on Monday, July 25, 1881 in the Banks home located on Main Street of the City of Spanish Fork, Utah, the second child of Esther Adamson and Willard Heber Banks. Since July 24th, the holiday, came on Sunday that year, it was celebrated on the 25th, my birthday, and a band wagon came to our house and played to celebrate the birth of a new baby.

My parents moved to Lake Shore, Utah before I was two years old. They lived there on a farm. My father also did contracting work on Railroads, canals, etc. Five more children were born to my parents at Lake Shore. While there I went to school just a short time during two winters. My teachers were a Mr. Hickman and a Mr. Bradford. I was baptized April 16, 1890 by Joseph S. Bellows and confirmed by Lorenzo Argyle.

When I was 14 years of age, in 1895, my family moved to Bancroft, Idaho where my father went to work building a canal. I lived in Idaho with my family for almost two years, at which time I returned to Spanish Fork, Utah, to live with my grandmother, Sarah Jarvis Banks. I lived with her for two years. My grandmother was a registered nurse and went out among the sick all the time. She was what was called a mid-wife at that time but passed the examinations and received her license later on to practice as a doctor in obstetrics and with children. I was alone at home a lot because she was called out at all hours to attend the sick.

While living with my grandmother as a youngster I sometimes worked in the beets. My cousin, Elmer Banks and I would take the cows to the pasture together and then stop to thin beets. Sometimes I would go with my grandmother in her one horse surrey to make calls on the sick. I had to play alone a lot so would play with my dolls in the big granary. I attended school at Agnes Crandall's School, Mr. Nicolas Wilson's School, Clara Jones' School, Will Stoker's School, George Nuttall's School, and Central School where my teacher was Tom Creer, this being the ninth grade and the last year of school at that time.

At ages 16 and 17 years, while still with my grandmother, I went to church all the time. I also started going with boys, only in crowds, to different parties. On a sleigh ride party which I attended after Mutual, I was in the company of a young man but met another young man from Springville, Utah, Austin Clinton Miner, and exchanged partners in the sleigh to be with him. He asked me to go to a Minstrel Show and I confided in my Aunt Rachel Banks, wife of John J. Banks, my father's brother. She told my grandmother and my grandmother, not approving of my going with boys, sent me back to Idaho to my family. My close friends while living with my grandmother were Ruth Bona, Nell Houghton, Kate Boyack and Jane Lloyd.

I was about 17 when I went back to Idaho. My parents had moved to Ivins, Idaho on a farm. As young people, my brothers, sisters, and I would go miles to go to a dance. We always went in a big crowd, never alone.

I began working at the Dolber Hotel in Bancroft, Idaho but got sick with shingles and had to return home. After recovering, I went to cook for men working on the railroad. They were widening the railroad between Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. There were two women, myself and my cousin Rill Adamson, and we cooked for over 50 men. Then we went to Nampa, Idaho to cook for men. My uncle William Creer and Elias Banks were making railroad grades. Then I returned home to Ivins, Idaho and after a short time I went to Kemmerer, Wyoming with Nettie Peck to cook for men working for my Uncle Billie Banks.

Again I returned home for a while. My sister Laverne, the youngest child of the family (eleven in all) was born at this time, November 3, 1900. My brothers and sisters were Esther, I was the second child, Willard Allan, John Jarvis, Jennie Maud (died at age 17 months), Burtrude Earl, Letitia May, Annie Ellis, Glen William, Mabel Myrle (died at seven years of age on Christmas Day) and Mary Lavern.

My father, Willard Heber Banks, was a natural farmer and stockman. Although never acquiring a lot of this world’s goods, he always had sufficient for his needs and that was all he desired. He was the most contented man with his lot in life. He was presiding Elder in Idaho. There were not enough people to organize a ward. Each Sunday my father would take his family and go miles to Sunday School and meetings which were held in the school house. We had to go in a wagon for a long time, then later he got a white-top buggy. He used to start out with his own family but before he reached the school house the wagon would be well loaded. It wasn't only the Mormon children or people that went but nearly all the people for miles around there. If there were any visitors from the Stake or other wards or home missionaries, they would stay at our home. My mother made all of them welcome.

My mother, Esther Adamson Banks, lived in Spanish Fork until married. She took part in local dramatic companies and was considered very good. She acted on the stage with Dr. George Brimhall and Irvin Wilson and others. She had a beautiful face, figure and disposition. She made friends easily and always held them. She was a mother to her younger brothers and sisters after her mother's death. She took an active part in church work. It was her lot to live most of her married life as a pioneer, having few of the modern conveniences of housekeeping until her later life. This I think, had a lot to do with her being worn out so early in life. After her husband's death she gradually failed although surrounded by her children and living in very comfortable surroundings. She was an ideal neighbor, a true wife, a loving and devoted mother and a staunch friend. She died as she lived without an enemy. She died of heart trouble.

My mother, Dad, and brothers John and Allen attended the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. My parents donated money to help build it.

In the year 1900, I visited with my grandmother in Spanish Fork, Utah and went several times with Austin Miner from Springville, who I have mentioned earlier. I returned to Idaho then after visiting in Salt Lake.

I received my Patriarchal Blessing January 13, 1902, given by W.W. Sterrett at Sterrett, Idaho.

I began cooking for men again on a job between Soda Springs and Bancroft, Idaho. While working here I met Ralph Creer. After this job, he went to Weezer, Idaho for a while and shortly after he returned we were married on February 19, 1902. We were married by Stake President Louis S. Pond at my sister Esther Creer's home at Lund, Bannock County, Idaho. We had a reception at my sister's home and then had a dance at Ivins, Idaho at the church and school house. Three of Ralph's sisters came up from Spanish Fork, Utah, for the wedding. Ralph was a half-brother to my brother-in-law Will Creer, husband of Esther.

We lived in Lund, Idaho on my Uncle Will Creer's ranch while my uncle was on a mission in England. We were active there in church affairs. The wards had baseball teams and Ralph played a lot on our Ward Team. As a family, we would often go to Soda Springs in the summer and take a lunch and then drink soda water right out of the spring. This soda water is bottled into soft drinks. We would mix it with lemon and sugar for a good soft drink.

Our first child, Verda Esther, was born November 20, 1902 while we were living on the ranch. She was blessed February 1, 1903 by P.P. Lechenbury. Our second child was born July 26, 1904 and named Willard Ray. He was blessed August 3, 1904 by W. H. Banks. He died of whooping cough March 10, 1905. My father, Willard H. Banks, died of spotted fever at Ivins, Idaho, April 26, 1905 just a month after our baby son died.

Not too many years before my father died he had glaucoma of the eyes and had to have one eye removed and wore a glass eye. He was in Salt Lake City for two months during this illness. It worried him very much for fear his other eye would go and he kept saying "If I am going to be blind I want to go home and look at my children as long as possible." I stayed on the ranch and took care of my brothers and sisters while my mother was in Salt Lake City with Dad. I had a trying time, by brother Earl was drug by a horse and my sister Ann fell off the hub of a wagon and broke her arm.

By this time, we had moved to a ranch of our own just above my Uncle's ranch. We went through the Logan Temple on October 11, 1905 and were married and had our two children sealed to us. The third child, Florence, was born at Spanish Fork, Utah, February 21, 1906 at the home of my husband's parents, Emma and Willard O. Creer.

After I had returned to the ranch, late one night after doing the chores, Bishop Liechenburt, Tel Creer and wife, and my Aunt Tish and Uncle Billie Banks came with bad news about the death of my husband. Our neighbor's (named Hanks) brother-n-law had climbed into a well to get a part of the pump that was in the well and when he did not climb out or answer to Hanks call, Hanks got my husband to come and help. A horse had fallen into the well sometime before and they had covered it up being unable to get the horse out. My husband, Ralph Creer, climbed into the well and both were overcome by poison gas that had formed from the dead horse. It was hours before they were able to recover the bodies. They were taken to Spanish Fork to be buried.

I didn't go back to the ranch but went to live with my mother at Ivins, Idaho. I took care of her when she was sick with typhoid fever.

My uncle Will Creer (husband of my sister Esther) returned from his mission at this time and they moved to Logan, Utah then later to Salt Lake City. While they were in Salt Lake City I took my two daughters and went to live with the Creers while taking a course at the Keister's Ladies Tailoring College. I was there about six months, then I went to Spanish Fork and got myself a little place, and lived there about a year sewing to earn a living. My mother had moved to Provo and the Creers had moved to Provo so I moved to Provo and lived with mother for a while. I sold my farm in Idaho and had a home built for me in Provo. The Keister's Ladies Tailoring College had set up a school in Provo above the old Irvine Store on University Avenue and I went there and finished my course and graduated in sewing and drafting. Then I moved into my home in Provo and did dress making to keep myself and daughters.

I went to Salt Lake City to visit my brother, Allen Banks and his wife, Mae, and took sick and had to be operated on for appendicitis at the Holy Cross Hospital by Dr. David Andrew (a Mormon Doctor). I got along well and was treated wonderfully in this Catholic Hospital. When well enough I went back to my brothers for a while and then my father-in-law came and took me to Spanish Fork for a while.

That following winter my sister-in-law, Grace Creer, and I started a sewing school in Spanish Fork. I rented my home in Provo to my Uncle Joe and Aunt Jane Banks and I rented a home for myself in Spanish Fork from a Presbyterian Minister, a Mr. Lee. For about nine months during that winter we tried to make a go of the sewing school then we gave up the school and I went back to Provo where I had a good business worked up.

My mother died October 24, 1912 of a heart attack. She had the attack while downtown. She lived about three weeks after and I stayed with her until she died.

In the year 1915, Austin C. Miner came to see me. I have mentioned him before as I knew him earlier in my life. At this time, I had been a widow for almost nine years. He had been married and his wife had died in childbirth with their fourth child in 1915. After resuming our friendship, he left and went to Babb, Montana where he worked for the Government. We corresponded for a year while he was in Montana and then when he returned we were married on February 12, 1916 in the Salt Lake Temple. He and his two boys were then sealed to his first wife, Zella Davis Miner. At this time, I had the two girls Verda and Florence and Austin had two boys Verl and Alden.

We lived in my home for a while and then sold it and bought a larger home on Third West. Austin then went to Salt Lake City and started working for a dairy so we moved into Salt Lake City. It was here that our son, Gordon Banks Miner, was born on June 30, 1917. We lived on South West Temple. We then moved from Salt Lake City. My husband got a contracting job building homes at Garfield, Utah for the Garfield Construction Company and we moved to Garfield. At this time, during World War I, Austin got a call to go into the Service. We went back to Provo into my old home having turned the other home back to the Real Estate Company. Austin had to report for duty in Salt Lake City and they told him there had been a mistake in the call and he didn't have to go into the Service. We kept our home in Provo from then on.

Our daughter Thais was born January 14, 1919 during the flu epidemic. My husband was working on the railroad from Ogden to Wyoming and on his way home he took the flu and stayed in Salt Lake City for a week so as not to bring the flu to me and the baby. The doctors were so busy with flu patients that when Thais came she was blue and we were unable to get help. Austin's sister-in-law, Ella Miner, happened in and being a nurse, she tied the cord and took care of the baby until the doctor came, Dr. Ephrium Hughes. My daughter, Verda, was wonderful and helped much during this birth.

Austin went to work for J. J. Burke and Company in 1919 and stayed with them for ten years.

Our last child, Neva Beth, was born May 9, 1921 at our home in Provo, Utah. Austin was away working at Twin Falls, Idaho at the time. When Beth was six weeks old I took the children and went to Twin Falls to be with him. He was working with J. J. Burke and Company as superintendent over a steel bridge. While in this area we visited with my mother's sister, Aunt Annie Terrell and Uncle Frank, and my mother's brother Uncle William and Aunt Arilla (Rill) Adamson who lived on ranches at Murtaugh.

My daughter, Florence Creer, died in Pocatello, Idaho in June, 1923 of an infection which started in her ear. She suffered much and while the Bishop was dedicating her to the Lord after suffering for so long and not being able to get well, I had a visitation from my mother. She said she had come to take Florence with her and I told Florence to be a good girl. At this moment Florence passed away. We brought her body back to Provo to the Berg Mortuary and after the funeral she was buried in the Spanish Fork Cemetery. Florence had been a joy to me. She was beautiful in every way. This was a hard thing for me to adjust to.

Verda married Sheldon Henry Drysdale, on July 14, 1923, the next month after Florence's death. They had a home on 7th West between Center and 1st South.

I spent the next several years with the children in school in Provo during the winters, and then in the summers I joined Austin wherever he was working and spent the summers there. We were in Durkee, Oregon for a while. It should have been named "Dirty" instead as it certainly was. There were many large windmills around that would pump water from the wells. While there, my husband and I went to Portland, Oregon and Seaside to see the ocean. Seaside was a beautiful place and at that time was built on pilings. Later, it burned and was rebuilt. We collected shells and waded in the ocean and just had a wonderful trip.

We spent some time in Chinook, Montana where they were moving a sugar factory from Yakima, Washington to Chinook. We lived in a hotel there. The town had a curfew that blew at 9:00 pm and the children were supposed to be off the street. When the curfew blew our children would run as fast as they could for home which amused the other tenants in the hotel. There was a young girl, Leitha, who lived at the hotel with her grandmother. She was very good to the children.

Next, we lived in Salmon, Idaho for a year. We traveled by train to get there. We had to change trains at Omstead to a real small train they called "The Galloping Goose." The children enjoyed this ride. We put the children in school here. Austin would go salmon fishing here, and he caught two large salmon, one 12 lbs. and the other 17 lbs. The large one was as long as Beth was tall at the time, she was four years old.

We spent a summer in American Falls where we lived in a hotel. Then we went to Salt Lake City where Austin was working on the Tribune Building. We stayed in Provo for several years after this and then went to Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona for a summer. While here we visited the museum at Flagstaff, the Montezuma Cliff Dwellings, and we were taken to see the ruins of the Indian cemetery by a friend of ours there who was an Indian himself. On our trip to Arizona we were accompanied by my niece, Lora Dabling and family, and Mrs. Floyd Creer and her daughter Loa of Goshen. We traveled through Zion's National Park and it was an enjoyable trip. This was nice country but I worried a lot about the children because there were so many poisonous insects and snakes there. On our way home from Arizona we went by way of Las Vegas, Nevada to visit with our son, Verl who was working on the Boulder Dam. He was living there with his wife, Burnell Colby Miner and baby, Zella Lou.

The next two summers we spent in Jensen, Utah and Chama, New Mexico. We celebrated the 4th of July in New Mexico by visiting the capital city, Santa Fe, which is a very old and interesting city. After returning to Provo we spent a summer in Ogden Canyon, and then, except for short visits with our children, we spent the rest of our time in Provo.

Our son, Gordon, fulfilled a mission to the Spanish America Mission, leaving in 1935 and staying 34 months. His friend, Ned Morgan, went on a Mission at the same time and they had their farewells together at the Bonneville Ward in Provo.

Gordon, Thais, and Beth all graduated from Provo High School and attended the Brigham Young University. They all three married within a year. Thais married Robert Owen Gibson in August 1940, Gordon married Ruth Burt of Bear River City (whom he had met in the mission field) in June 1941, and Beth married Kimball Joseph Sorenson in September 1941. Robert Owen Gibson was from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Kimball was from Provo.

During the Second World War Gordon worked in the shipyards in Long Beach, California. Verl was also there at that time. Owen and Thais lived in Boulder City, Nevada where Owen taught High School. Kimball served in the Navy for almost four years, and Beth accompanied him to San Francisco and stayed until he was shipped overseas to the South Pacific. Verda and Sheldon were in Los Angeles, California where they had moved several years before. Alden was still in the Navy where he had been since he joined at the age of 18. At this time, I was active in the Navy Mother's Club and served as Commander for two years and eight months. I enjoyed this organization and had many friends in this organization and also the Salt Lake Chapter.

I have been active in the Church all of my life. I was Secretary of the Sunday School, and led the singing (chorister) in Ivins, Idaho. In Provo, I taught Mutual when our Ward, the Bonneville Ward, was held at the Maeser Elementary School. Our Bishop was Ben Bullock. Later, in our new church, I taught Gleaners in Mutual under Bishop Andrew Jensen. I worked in the Relief Society for years in the Bonneville and Seventh Wards. I have been a Relief Society Visiting Teacher for over 15 years. In Daughters of the Pioneers I held the office of Historian for several years. I would have been more active in church, but was away from home to be with Austin on contracting jobs. I have been through the Logan, Manti and Salt Lake Temples. I did the Temple work for my daughter Florence and a young neighbor girl whom we thought a lot of, Lucille Mullikan. I also attended the dedication of the Los Angeles Temple with my sister, Esther Creer.

Dictated to and typed by my daughter
Neva Beth Miner Sorenson
Minor editing by submitter Steven R. Ord, Great-Grandson

Avez-vous des renseignements supplémentaires, des corrections ou des questions concernant Sarah Elizabeth Banks?
L'auteur de cette publication aimerait avoir de vos nouvelles!

Barre chronologique Sarah Elizabeth Banks

Cliquez sur le nom pour plus d'information. Symboles utilisés:  grand-parents    parents    frères/soeurs    enfants