Sarah Ada Adair Mangum

Biography

Sarah Ada Adair Mangum was born on December 27, 1815, in Pickens, Alabama, AL. Her parents were Thomas Jefferson Adair, Sr. and Rebecca Adair.

Sarah married William M. Mangum circa 1833 in Pickens County, Alabama, United States. Together they had the following children:

• Armelia Caroline Bigler;
• Sarah Frances Mangum;
• Cyrus Franklin Mangum;
• William Young Mangum;
• Marinda Elizabeth Mangum;
• Thomas Jefferson Mangum.

She died on July 3, 1852, in Loup River, Nebraska, United States, and was buried in Loup Fork, Platte, NE.

---

Statement from her daughter "I Armelia Caroline Mangum Bigler was born March 21, 1834, at Pickens Co Alabama. I moved from there with my parents Sarah Adair and Wm Mangum at the age of seven to the state of Mississippi, Itawamba County, and in December 1845 was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints... We started in Nauvoo about the 15th of Jan 1846 and arrived on the 20th of March the same year. We stayed there one week and crossed the Mississippi River and traveled west. We sometimes camped for a month at one place. We arrived at Mount Pisgah the day that Father Huntington was buried. ...and my baby brother was buried close to him a few days later. We stayed there for 4 ½ years and then moved to Council Bluffs. There we remained through the winter and moved to a settlement on the(?) River. We stayed there the next winter and there I became acquainted with my future husband Jacob G. Bigler... In June of the same year, we crossed the Missouri River and started across the plains for Salt Lake City. On June 28 my youngest sister died of cholera age of one year and 8 months. There we left her lonely little grave. We traveled 15 days and my mother died. We had to bury her and many others without a coffin. We dressed them in their best and put a strip of tree bark under them and another over them and made a deep grave to protect the bodies from the wolves.

Mother had died from cholera, was taken sick at night, and buried before nine O'clock the next morning. She left three children, me, a sister 13 yrs older, and my eleven-year-old brother. We arrived in Salt Lake City on Sept 23, 1852..."

"I Armelia Caroline Mangum Bigler was born March 21, 1834, at Pickens Co Alabama. I moved from there with my parents Sarah Adair and Wm Mangum at the age of seven to the state of Mississippi, Itawamba County, and in December 1845 was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints... We started in Nauvoo about the 15th of Jan 1846 and arrived on the 20th of March the same year. We stayed there one week and crossed the Mississippi River and traveled west. We sometimes camped for a month at one place. We arrived at Mount Pisgah the day that Father Huntington was buried. ...and my baby brother was buried close to him a few days later. We stayed there for 4 ½ years and then moved to Council Bluffs. There we remained through the winter and moved to a settlement on the(?) River. We stayed there the next winter and there I became acquainted with my future husband Jacob G. Bigler... In June of the same year, we crossed the Missouri River and started across the plains for Salt Lake City. On June 28 my youngest sister died of cholera age of one year and 8 months. There we left her lonely little grave. We traveled 15 days and my mother died. We had to bury her and many others without a coffin. We dressed them in their best and put a strip of tree bark under them and another over them and made a deep grave to protect the bodies from the wolves.

Mother had died from cholera, was taken sick at night, and buried before nine O'clock the next morning. She left three children, me, a sister 13 yrs older, and my eleven-year-old brother. We arrived in Salt Lake City on Sept 23, 1852..."

---

Sarah Ada Adair Mangum was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair and Rebecca Brown. She was born in Pickensville (or possibly Tuscaloosa County), Alabama. She was married to William Mangum in Pickensville, Alabama. They were married sometime "about 1833."

She bore him six children: Armelia Caroline (b. March 21, 1834), Thomas Jefferson (b. December 8, 1835), Sarah Frances (b. September 11, 1838), Cyrus Franklin (b. September 29, 1840), William Young (b. October 5, 1845), and Marinda Elizabeth (b October 7, 1850).

She died on the Loup Fork river crossing in Nebraska and was buried there on the Mormon Trail while crossing the Great Plains. Her husband had no wood to construct a coffin, so he wrapped her body in tree bark and buried her in an unmarked grave alongside the trail. He then covered it with brush and rocks to protect it from animals.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 29 2022, 5:46:42 UTC