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CARTER, Sarah Ann
1829 - 1916 (86 years) 
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Name CARTER, Sarah Ann Birth 29 Jun 1829 Adams, Adams, Illinois, United States 
Gender Female WAC 8 Mar 1852 EHOUS _TAG Reviewed on FS Death 18 Jun 1916 Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States Burial 21 Jun 1916 Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States Headstones 
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Family HADDEN, Alfred Sidney , b. 13 Jan 1813, Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, United States Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, United Statesd. 27 Apr 1895, Emery, Carbon, Utah, United States (Age 82 years) Marriage 30 Jan 1846 Parawan, Iron, Utah 
Children5 sons and 5 daughters Family ID F10636 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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AGED LADY DEAD
Passes From This Life Thursday Afternoon after Short Illness
Thursday afternoon Sarah Ann Carter Haddon, an aged lady of this city, passed away after a short illness, having succumbed to general debility and old age. She was born in Adams County, Illinois, June 5, 1827, and came to Utah in 1851 by ox team in the Captain Mace Company. She remained in Salt Lake until the fall of 1853 when she with other emigrants came to this valley and after living here for several years went with her husband and children to Castledale, Utah. After living at the last named place until 1895, her husband's death occuring in that year, she and her children moved back to Parowan, which place she has made her home from that time to the present.
She was highly respected, and numbered her friends by the score, and was a mother of 10 children, 8 of whom survive her. She leaves in addition to her children 54 grandchildren. 114 great grand children, and 12 great great grandchildren. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and clung to that faith constantly through all her many trials that she was forced to undergo in the early settlement of Utah.
The children left to mourn her departure are Rachel Applegate, Circleville, Utah, Louisa Mortenson, Parowan, Wm. Haddon, Uintah, John Haddon, Idaho, Matilda Hooper, Idaho, Arminta Lidley, Colton, Utah, Ellen Rose and Francis Haddon, Idaho.
Several of her children were at her bedside when the end came, and sincerely mourn the loss of a loving mother.
Funeral services were held in the tabernacle Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, the speakers being Morgan Richards, John Stevens, Bp. Adams, each of whom spoke in strong terms of the excellent character of the deceased, and encouraged the mourners to follow in the footsteps of her who has gone to a well earned rest. During the services a beautiful solo was rendered by Miss Ada McGregor, and the singing of the choir was apropriate to the occasion.
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Sarah Ann Carter was born 5 Jun 1829 in Greenville, Adams, Illinois. It is from her obituary that we read that Sarah Ann: Claimed to have witnessed, when she was a young woman, an incident which is believed by some to have occurred and which has been often related in connection with the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, that of a bolt of light or burst of flame from the sky that prevented a member of the mob from severing the head of the prophet on the memorable June 27, 1844. Sarah was baptized not long after in the summer of 1845.
In 1846 Sarah and her sister Mary Caroline married Alfred Sydney Hadden in Nauvoo, Illinois. Alfred Hadden and his first wife, Julia Ann, apparently were taught and accepted the doctrine of plural marriage that had been revealed to Joseph Smith, but not yet preached publicly. According to the principle of plural marriage, these marriages would have to have been approved by Julia Ann, the first wife. Under this doctrine Alfred took two additional wives. They were Mary Caroline and Sarah Ann Carter, the oldest children of Reuben Melton and Rachel Campbell Carter. This was possibly on 30 Jan 1846, the day that Alfred and Julia received their endowments in the Nauvoo temple. I saw in an article in ‘Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought’, Volume 34, Number 1, 2, Spring/Summer 2001, Page 153, Table 3, Polygamous Marriages by Nauvoo Husbands, that showed that Alfred had three wives in Nauvoo, two of them added in 1846.
Mobs acted to force the Saints out of their homes in the dead of winter. Sarah and Mary and, apparently, Julia’s children, went West with Alfred. Julia must have suffered some debility, perhaps from the exposure of being driven out, that prevented her from traveling West with the saints. Tradition has it that she died in May of 1847 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. What caused her death, who she stayed with, where she is buried, are all questions remaining unanswered.
Church records indicate that the Haddens lived in the Blockhouse Branch, Pottawattamie, Iowa in 1846. He was sealed to both Mary and Sarah at Winter Quarters. This event took place at 1:30 p.m. 28 Mar 1847 at Winter Quarters. The official witnesses were Willard Richards and John D. Lee, Clerk, T. Bullock.
Sarah had two children while at Council Bluffs. The census of 1850 taken on 1 Oct 1850 shows family number 574 consisting of Alfred, his two wives, Caroline and Sarah, Julia’s four children, (Mary) Caroline’s two children, and Sarah’s two children.
The following year, 1851 Alfred crossed the plains with his families and came to Provo, Utah. The Provo Branch records show that the following were re-baptized on30 Dec 1851 by Lucius N. Scovil:
Alford S. HaddenSeventyConfirmed by
Sidney CarterLay MemberL. N. Scovil
Sarah HaddenLay MemberD. Carter
The practice of re baptizing members upon arrival in Utah as an evidence of rededication to the Gospel was quite common. Nearly everyone who crossed the plains in those early years was re-baptized upon arrival.
William Carter Hadden, Sarah’s third child and first son, was born in Provo 11 Mar 1853. In the Fall of 1853 Alfred took his families to Parowan. On Monday, 1 May 1854 Alfred departed Parowan with the Rufus C. Allen party of missionaries called in October Conference to teach and help the Indians. They established Fort Harmony in nearby Washington County and began to work with the Indians.
In May of 1854 a census was taken in Parowan and Alfred Hadden’s family is listed among 389 names of those in Parowan. There we find Alfred Hadden of the 8th Quorum of seventy, both wives, and nine children, including Julia’s younger two.
As the snow melted in the spring of 1855 some of the missionaries had their families join them. Sarah’s second son, John Russell Hadden was born in Harmony on Thursday, 19 Apr 1855. Times were hard in those years. The crops all seemed to fail and those who were there on missions kept coming and going to handle their private affairs.
In December of 1855 a new justice of the peace was appointed in Fort Harmony to replace Alfred Hadden, who had removed to Beaver County. The first pioneers to Beaver left Parowan 5 Feb 1856. Alfred apparently maintained a connection with Parowan because both Mary and Sarah had babies there, Mary on 11 Dec 1856 and Sarah gave birth to Margaret on 14 May 1857.
Sarah’s next child was Arminda, born in Beaver on 28 August 1859.
The 1860 census shows the Haddens back in Parowan. Alfred is listed with Sarah and six children. Mary is listed in another dwelling with six children. After this, there are other children born in Parowan to both wives. Mary gave birth to eight children of her eleven children in Utah, all of these in Parowan. Sarah also gave birth to eight children of her ten children in Utah, but they were in Provo, Harmony, Parowan, Beaver, Parowan (2 more), Paragoonah, and Kanosh. It appears that Sarah moved about with her husband more than Mary did, although Mary did some moving about, i.e., Kanosh.
In 1864 a company of 66 men, most of them with families, settled Panguitch. Alfred must at least have taken Sarah’s family with him for here, on 4 Sep 1864, Sarah’s children Mary Ellen (almost 4) and Alfred Porter (almost 1) were blessed. 1865 was the beginning of the Black Hawk War. Sarah’s son, William Carter Hadden, fought in this war as a youth (He would have been 12 in 1865). Sarah’s granddaughter, Rachel Cornilia Robinson, was born to Timothy and Julia Ann Robinson 30 Jan 1866 and is credited with being the first white girl born in Panguitch. In June 1866, Panguitch was abandoned because of Indian troubles. Sarah and family went to Paragoonah and on 3 Jul 1886 Sarah gave birth to James Reuben there.
Alfred moved his families to Kanosh before 1870. How much before is not known, but they were sufficiently well established by January 1870 for Sarah to participate in a women’s protest movement that started in Salt Lake City and spread throughout the territory. In Kanosh Sarah was active in a statewide woman’s protest movement against discriminatory bills proposed in Congress. Such legislation would have forcibly separated Mormon men from their wives and families. On 24 January 1870 a ladies mass meeting was held at Kanosh, of which the following minutes were published in the Deseret News of February lst; "Mrs. Sarah Ann Haddin felt to express her abhorrence at the measures proposed against the people of Utah. In speaking of the persecutions that have followed this people, she hoped that, should their enemies urge their measures to the utmost, rather than submit to the provisions of the Cullom Bill, and have their husbands severed from them and their families broken up, these valleys might yet become as barren and desolate as they were when the Saints came here."
Sarah had a baby in Kanosh on 7 Apr 1871. Also, the 1880 census shows them in the Star Precinct, Beaver County. Sarah was in Joseph, Sevier County where she was re-baptized and confirmed in the Joseph Ward 3 Aug 1893. Church records show that she was still in Joseph in 1898. She died on 15 Jun 1916 in Parowan. She was 87 years old. Her life had not been easy. She had ten children, at least eight of these were living when she died. Many of her descendants are active and faithful in the Church today. We hope to live worthily to be in the presence of the Lord, and hope to find her there.
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