Sarah Burr Eldredge

Born: 6 Nov 1853, Sugar House, Salt Lake, Utah Married: Ira Edgar Eldredge, 13 May 1872, Salt Lake city, Utah Died: 16 Dec 1918, Myton, Duchesne, Utah Buried: 18 Dec 1918, Roosevelt Cemetery, Duchesne, Utah

Mrs. Eldredge is First Myton Influenza Victim (Special Correspondence) Myton, Dec 21. Mrs. Sarah B. Eldredge died at the family residence Dec. 15 [sic] of Pneumonia, following influenza, being the first victim to that dread disease in Myton. Mrs. Eldredge was born at Sugar House, Salt Lake City. They had ten children, of whom seven survive. She moved with her husband to Coalville in 1872 and from there to Oakley in the same county in 1901. In Nov. of 1913 she arrived in the Uinta Basin, making her home in Myton, where she won the love and esteem of all who knew her. She was an energetic Red Cross Worker. She is survived by her husband and the following children: Mrs. Sadie Scholes and Mrs. Matilda Frazier of Park City. Mrs. A. Maxwell of Altona. Leslie E. Eldredge and Albert D. Eldredge of Roosevelt. O.H. Eldredge of Magna and J. Harold of Myton; also her mother, Mrs. C.M. Staker of Butlerville. A short out-door funeral service was held at the family residence on the 18th inst., under the bishopric. The speakers were Fred N. Musser, Isaac W. Odekirk and Charles J. Wahlquist. Interment was in the Roosevelt Cemetery, where the grave was dedicated by Charle J. Wahlquist.

(_Deseret Evening News_, Tue. 24 Dec 1918, p. 6 col. 3)

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