Sarah Elizabeth Millett

Sarah Elizabeth Glines Millett

Born August 13, 1830 in Franklin, Merrimack, New Hampshire (or Peterborough, N.H.) to James Pearson Glines and Ruth Brown. Listed in the 1850 Census of Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire showed her living with two older brothers, a future sister-in-law, and several other young adults in one household (apparently to pool their meager resources).

Her father, James, is listed as living in the Poor House in Franklin, New Hampshire, and he died there one year later. Location of mother unknown (although allegedly she survived until 1868.)

Sarah married Joseph Millett on March 26, 1854 in Lowell. Their first child, Artimus Millett, was born June 21, 1855 in Marquette, Iowa and he died two months later. Migrated to Utah with her husband in the Second Wagon Company of the Canute Peterson Company comprised of mostly Scandinavian Saints and a few U.S. citizens, arriving in Salt Lake mid-September, 1856. Her brother, James Harvey Glines, had preceeded her to Utah four years earlier, with his wife and children. Other siblings also joined the LDS Church and migrated to Utah.

She and Joseph had 10 children total, born all over Utah and Nevada. She died in Springdale, Utah on October 4, 1889.

-Lowell, Massachusetts LDS Church members,