1 Born at Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana; daughter of Mary Hedrick and Philip Garner. 2 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849. 3 Settled in Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory. 4 Married Lester James Herrick, July 13, 1851; two children. 5 Participated in mass meetings to protest the Cullom Bill, 1870. 6 Served as a counselor in the Ogden Ward Relief Society presidency, circa 1870–1877; served as counselor to Jane Snyder Richards in the Weber Stake Relief Society presidency, 1877. 7 Served as president of the Weber Stake Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, 1879–1892. 8 Died at Logan, Cache County, Utah; buried at Ogden. 9 (See Document 3.26, 3.28, 4.20)
Sarah Ann Garner Herrick
18 January 1832—12 August 1906
Footnotes
Footnotes
1 “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 129/420 (1906), Sarah Ann Herrick.
3 “Sarah Ann Garner,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023).
4 1850 U.S. census, Weber Co., Utah Territory, p. 156B, Sarah Garner; from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919. 1860 U.S. census, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah Territory, p. 415, Sally A. Herrick; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014).
5 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Ann Garner.
6 “Local and Other Matters,” Deseret News [weekly], Mar. 30, 1870, 1.
7 Weber Stake Relief Society, Minutes, Dec. 16, 1875, vol. 5, p. 5; July 19, 1877, and May 2, 1878, vol. 6, pp. 3–5, 35, Relief Society minutes and records, 1867–1968, Weber Stake, CHL.
8 Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 479.
9 Utah death certificate, file no. 129/420. “Death of Mrs. L. J. Herrick, Ogden Standard (Aug. 13, 1906), 7.