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Alice Elizabeth Sargent

9 March 1878–5 January 1951

Born 9 March 1878 in Hoytsville, Summit County, Utah Territory. Daughter of Nephi Sargent and Jane Wilson. Set apart as full-time missionary in British Mission, 23 March 1900; served as companion to Clara Holbrook. Returned from mission, 21 May 1902. Married William Shepherd, 16 December 1903; three children. Died 5 January 1951 in Hoytsville.[1]


[1] Alice Elizabeth Sargent entry, no. 150, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, Book C, 120, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; “Holbrook, Jean Clara,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History, 1901), 503; “Alice E. Shepherd,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 6 Jan. 1951, 2.