Sarah Rostern Knowles

1791– 1856

Native of Manchester, England, where she married Richard Knowles; baptized along with her husband; immigrated to California on ship Brooklyn with her husband and daughter Sarah in 1846; died in San Francisco. (See Bullock, Ship Brooklyn Saints, 206; “Ship Brooklyn Saints,” in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 3:561–62; GQC journal, Oct. 28, 1850.)