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Sarah Ingersoll Harvey Floyd Holmes

27 September 1816—27 February 1889

1 Born at Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts; daughter of Dorcas Curtis and Isaac Harvey. 2 Married first Enoch Floyd Jr., 1832; seven children. 3 Baptized, 1842. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1853. 5 Lived in California, circa 1853–1854; lived in Massachusetts, circa 1854–1862. 6 Widowed, 1855. 7 Returned to the Salt Lake Valley, 1862. 8 Married second Jonathan Harriman Holmes as a plural wife, 1862. 9 Settled at Farmington, Davis County, Utah Territory. 10 Served as president of the Farmington Ward Relief Society and as president of the Davis Stake Relief Society. 11 Moved to St. Charles, Bear Lake County, Idaho Territory; served in the Relief Society and as a counselor in the Bear Lake Stake Primary. 12 Died at St. Charles; buried at Farmington. 13 (See Document 4.3)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Cemetery records list her birthdate as September 27, 1816, while FamilySearch lists September 21 and an 1889 obituary lists September 16. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (https://history.utah.gov/cemeteries, accessed Oct. 2014), Sarah I. Floyd Holmes. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 137471, Sarah Ingersoll Floyd Holmes; Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Sarah Ingersoll Harvey KWVM-R68. “Obituaries,” Woman’s Exponent 17, no. 24 (May 15, 1889): 192.

  2. 2 “Obituaries,” 192. “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Ingersoll Harvey.

  3. 3 “Massachusetts Marriages, 1633–1850,” Enoch Floyd Jr. and Sarah E. Hervey [sic], Dec. 4, 1832; database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); comp. Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research, Provo, UT. “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Ingersoll Harvey.

  4. 4 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Ingersoll Harvey.

  5. 5 “Sarah Ingersoll Harvey,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023).

  6. 6 Obituaries,” 192. 1860 U.S. census, Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, p. 105, Sarah J. Floyd [sic]; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 499.

  7. 7 “Enoch Floyd Jr, 1808–1855,” Individual Record, Family Tree database (Ancestor ID: LLMZ-2ZY), FamilySearch, accessed 17 Nov. 2023, familysearch.org.

  8. 8 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868,” database, Sarah Ingersol [sic] Harvey Floyd.

  9. 9 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Ingersoll Harvey.

  10. 10 “Obituaries,” 192. 1880 U.S. census, Farmington, Davis Co., Utah Territory, p. 296A, Sarah I. Holmes; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1336.

  11. 11 “Obituaries,” 192. Davis Stake Relief Society, Minutes, Apr. 21, 1882, vol. 6, p. 101, 1878–1887, in Relief Society minutes and records, 1878–1915, Davis Stake, CHL.

  12. 12 “Obituaries,” 192. “Obituaries,” Woman’s Exponent 17, no. 22 (Apr. 15, 1889): 176.

  13. 13 “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Sarah I. Floyd Holmes Find a Grave, memorial no. 137471.