Sarah Brackett Carter Foss

September 30, 1800–March 4, 1894

1 Born at Limerick, York County, Maine; daughter of Sarah Fabyan and Ezra Carter. 2 Married Calvin Ira Foss, 1823; seven children. 3 Baptized, 1834. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1850. 5 Settled at Salt Lake City. 6 Served as a teacher, counselor, and supervisor of the work committee in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, 1856–1885. 7 Died at East Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory; buried at Salt Lake City. 8 (See Document 2.3)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent 22, no. 15 (Apr. 1, 1894): 119. Utah Division of State History, “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Cemeteries and Burials (http://heritage.utah.gov/history/cemeteries, accessed Apr. 2014), S.B.C. Foss.
  2. [2] “In Memoriam,” 119. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Sarah Brackett Carter KWVM-4H5 .
  3. [3] “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Brackett Carter. Carol Holindrake Nielson, The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004), 60.
  4. [4] “In Memoriam,” 119.
  5. [5] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), Sarah Brackett Carter Foss.
  6. [6] Nielson, Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 59–61. 1850 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 33B, Sarah B. Foss; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919.
  7. [7] “In Memoriam,” 119. Nielson, Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 60.
  8. [8] “In Memoriam,” 119. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, S.B.C. Foss.