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Sarah Jane Jenne

Sarah Jane Cannon, Sarah Jenne Cannon, S. J. Cannon

11 September 1839—13 May 1928

Emmeline B. Wells

Born 11 September 1839 in Camden, Kent County, Upper Canada.1 Daughter of Benjamin Prince Jenne and Sarah Comstock Snyder.2 Moved with family to Hancock County, Illinois, 1842.3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Willard Richards pioneer company; arrived, October 1848.4 Married George Quayle Cannon as a plural wife, 11 April 1858, in Salt Lake City; seven children.5 Served on the finance committee of the Deseret Hospital, 1882.6 Third counselor to general Relief Society president Zina D. H. Young, 1889–1901.7 Served as the first president of the Cannon Ward Relief Society, 1896.8 Served on the general board of the Relief Society, 1898–1921.9 Died 13 May 1928 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.10

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

 

Born 11 September 1839 in Camden, Kent County, Upper Canada.11 Daughter of Benjamin Prince Jenne and Sarah Comstock Snyder.12 Moved with family to Hancock County, Illinois, 1842.13 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Willard Richards pioneer company; arrived, October 1848.14 Married George Quayle Cannon as a plural wife, 11 April 1858, in Salt Lake City; seven children.15 Served on the finance committee of the Deseret Hospital, 1882.16 Third counselor to general Relief Society president Zina D. H. Young, 1889–1901.17 Served as the first president of the Cannon Ward Relief Society, 1896.18 Served on the general board of the Relief Society, 1898–1921.19 Died 13 May 1928 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.20

Footnotes

  1. 1 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 112, 12 Feb. 1857, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL); 1900 U.S. Census, Farmers Precinct, Salt Lake Co., UT, enumeration dist. 65, p. 21.

  2. 2 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 112, 12 Feb. 1857, FSL; Logan Temple Sealings of Children to Parents, 1884–1943, microfilm 178087, vol. A, p. 91, 5 Nov. 1884, FSL; “Joseph Jenne Cannon,” 11 Aug. 1917, no. 29291, in Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889–1970, vol. 147, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, ancestry.com.

  3. 3 “Obituary Notes,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 19 Jan. 1895, 6; Susan Easton Black, Harvey B. Black, and Brandon Plewe, Property Transactions in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois and Surrounding Communities (1838–1859) (World Vital Records, 2006), 3:2038–2039.

  4. 4 Second 50, Report, Sept. 1848, Willard Richards’s 1848 Emigration Division, Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Jane S. Richards, Autobiographical Sketch, 30 Mar. 1881, CHL.

  5. 5 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149514, vol. C, p. 312, 11 Apr. 1858, FSL; Davis Bitton, George Q. Cannon: A Biography (Deseret Book, 1999), 90, 463–464; “Sarah J. Cannon Dead on Coast,” Salt Lake Telegram, 14 May 1928, second section, 1.

  6. 6 “The Deseret Hospital,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 26 July 1882, 430.

  7. 7 History of Relief Society, 1842–1966 (General Board of Relief Society, 1966), 37.

  8. 8 Cannon Ward, Cannon Stake, Relief Society Minutes and Records, 18 Aug. 1896, pp. 4–5, CHL.

  9. 9 History of Relief Society, 52; “Officials Named for June Conferences of Church,” Salt Lake Telegram, 13 June 1915, second section, 5.

  10. 10 California Death Indexes, 1905–1939; 1940–1994, DGS 5240838, Death Index C–E, p. 1580, 13 May 1928, familysearch.org; Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139778, burial permit no. Y-811, 13 May 1928, familysearch.org; “Sarah J. Cannon Dead on Coast,” 1.

  11. 11 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 112, 12 Feb. 1857, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL); 1900 U.S. Census, Farmers Precinct, Salt Lake Co., UT, enumeration dist. 65, p. 21.

  12. 12 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 112, 12 Feb. 1857, FSL; Logan Temple Sealings of Children to Parents, 1884–1943, microfilm 178087, vol. A, p. 91, 5 Nov. 1884, FSL; “Joseph Jenne Cannon,” 11 Aug. 1917, no. 29291, in Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889–1970, vol. 147, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, ancestry.com.

  13. 13 “Obituary Notes,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 19 Jan. 1895, 6; Susan Easton Black, Harvey B. Black, and Brandon Plewe, Property Transactions in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois and Surrounding Communities (1838–1859) (World Vital Records, 2006), 3:2038–2039.

  14. 14 Second 50, Report, Sept. 1848, Willard Richards’s 1848 Emigration Division, Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Jane S. Richards, Autobiographical Sketch, 30 Mar. 1881, CHL.

  15. 15 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149514, vol. C, p. 312, 11 Apr. 1858, FSL; Davis Bitton, George Q. Cannon: A Biography (Deseret Book, 1999), 90, 463–464; “Sarah J. Cannon Dead on Coast,” Salt Lake Telegram, 14 May 1928, second section, 1.

  16. 16 “The Deseret Hospital,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 26 July 1882, 430.

  17. 17 History of Relief Society, 1842–1966 (General Board of Relief Society, 1966), 37.

  18. 18 Cannon Ward, Cannon Stake, Relief Society Minutes and Records, 18 Aug. 1896, pp. 4–5, CHL.

  19. 19 History of Relief Society, 52; “Officials Named for June Conferences of Church,” Salt Lake Telegram, 13 June 1915, second section, 5.

  20. 20 California Death Indexes, 1905–1939; 1940–1994, DGS 5240838, Death Index C–E, p. 1580, 13 May 1928, familysearch.org; Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139778, burial permit no. Y-811, 13 May 1928, familysearch.org; “Sarah J. Cannon Dead on Coast,” 1.