Sarah Ann Alger

Sarah Ann Alger Cowley obituary

Feb 1933 , Cleveland, Emery, Utah

-published in The Salt Lake Tribune Feb 17, 1933

SARAH ANN COWLEY

CLEVELAND-Mrs. Sarah Ann Cowley, 87, Utah pioneer of 1848, died at her home here Tuesday of ailments incident to age.

Mrs. Cowley was born in Nauvoo, Ill., April 13, 1845, a daughter of John and Sarah Pulsipher Alger. The family left that city the following year, during the Mormon exodus, and lived in Winter Quarters, Neb., nearly two years before corssing the plains to Utah. The family was called by Brigham Young to help settle southern Utah in 1856.

Mrs. Cowley married William E. Cowley on January 11, 1863 in Beaver. They then moved to St. George in 1864 and remained there until 18??, when they were called to settle Emery county, where Mrs. Cowley spent the remainder of her life.

She is survived by nine sons and daughters, William E. Cowley Jr, Spring Canyon; Mrs. A.E. Gibson, Price; J.M., A.B., R.E., Claude and Addie Cowley, Cleveland; D.C. Cowley, Consumers and Samuel N. Cowley, Sunnyside; one brother, William Edgar Alger, Enterprise; Three sisters, Mrs. Ann E. Price, Salt Lake; Mrs. Ella Church, Panquitch and Mrs. Mamie Morris, Portland, Ore., 20 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren; trhee half-brothers, Frank Alger, Nine Mile; Gerret Alger, Soldier Creek; Alonzo Alger, Consumers; one half-sister, Mrs. Luna Smith, Wellington.

Suneral services will be conducted in the Cleveland L.D.S. chapel Friday at 1 p.m. with interment in Cleveland City cemetery under the direction of the Wallace mortuary of Price.

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