Sarah Beriah Allen

Biographical Summary:

"...In 1851 I exchanged my gold dust for cash and goods, reserving enough of the gold to make me a ring, which I still wear. I gathered my little means together, and hired a wagon made, purchased another cow and a yoke of young cattle and helped to purchase another yoke of cattle, procured my provisions for the journey, and I took a young man and his wife into my wagon he acting as teamster, and in company with many of my brothers and sisters in the spring of 1852 started for Salt Lake City.

I will hastily pass over the incidents of the journey, as many have written upon it, suffice it to say our teams became weakened, our loads were heavy, and our progress slow. The cholera attended the camp for several hundred miles, one woman dying.

We arrived in Salt Lake City in good health September 14, 1852..."

SOURCE: Ricks, Sarah Beriah Fiske Allen, A Brief Sketch of the Life of Sarah Beriah Fiske allen Ricks, 12. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.) Retrieved from http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/source/1,18016,4976-19326,00.html

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Birth: Sep. 1, 1819
Potsdam St. Lawrence County New York, USA

Death: Jun. 12, 1891 Logan Cache County Utah, USA

Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 11, p.133 Sarah Beriah Fiske Allen Ricks was born in New York, and at the age of 18 became the wife of Ezra H. Allen. Not long after their marriage, they joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo. In 1846 Ezra was one of the young men called to enlist in the Mormon Battalion and was killed, presumably by Indians, in the California mountains while on his return to Utah. Later, Sarah became the wife of Joel Ricks and together they pioneered in Cache Valley.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

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Spouses:

• Joel Ricks (1804 - 1888)
• Ezra Heela Allen (1814 - 1848)*

Children:

• Cynthia Amorette Allen Ricks (1839 - 1874)*
• Jerusha Elvira Allen (1841 - 1842)*
• Alexander Hamilton Allen (1843 - 1843)*
• Alexander Alma Allen (1845 - 1916)*
• Joel Ricks (1858 - 1944)*

Burial: Logan City Cemetery Logan Cache County Utah, USA Plot: B_ 30_ 33_ 5