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About Sarah Ann Turnbow
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Excerpt from "The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857", by Carol Holindrake Nielson
The Ballos were personal friends of Brigham Young, which was a high point in a life that seemed to have its ups and downs. Sarah sold Dominico’s interest in Ballo’s Hall at his death for two hundred dollars—a lump sum they probably never saw during his lifetime.
In Sarah Ann’s patriarchal blessing, she was promised “a numerous posterity in due time.” Apparently due time extends beyond Sarah Ann’s mortality; a search to locate a descendant who preserved her story proved fruitless. Even in her declining years, Sarah Ann’s story was still only a peripheral addendum to Dominico’s.
At the age of eighty-three, Sarah Ann, now “Mrs. Turnbow,” recalled her first husband and his accomplishments to a magazine writer who acknowledged her “excellent memory” during the interview. The journalist complimented Sarah Ann as “still bright and sprightly,” although of her part in Dominico’s history, she was either asked little, or chose to remain silent.
Thank goodness her quilt block remains. Sarah’s name and the year are embroidered mid- center—the focal point for the four geometric Carolina Lilies. This interpretation of gray and red calico was all her own.
Note: Coincidental to the research of quilters Deborah A. Turnbow and Maria L. Turnbow was the discovery that their husband, Samuel Turnbow, who had a brother named Stephen Turnbow, recorded the Ballos’ temple ordinances and Sarah Ann’s patriarchal blessing with his own family papers. Purportedly, Samuel’s brother Stephen Turnbow died in 1860—debunking the assumption that Sarah Ann was Samuel’s sister-in-law. Though there seems a relationship between the families, missing information precludes the connection.
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Sarah Ann Turnbow's Timeline
| 1793 |
April 8, 1793
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Jamestown, Richmond, Virginia
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| 1882 |
May 27, 1882
Age 89
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
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Salt Lake City Cemetry, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
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