Sarah Eliza Russell

12 August 1840 — 28 December 1913

1 Born in Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri; daughter of Mary Walton and Isaac Russell. 2 Lived at Far West and at Richmond, Ray County, Missouri. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1861. 4 Served as secretary (1868–1876) and counselor (1876–1883) to Sarah M. Kimball in the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward Relief Society presidency. 5 Served as president of the Fifteenth Ward Young Ladies’ Retrenchment Association, 1870–1883. 6 Moved to Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, circa 1883; served as Primary president in Mesa. 7 Moved to Mexico, 1889; lived at Colonia Juarez and Chuichupa and continued to serve in the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association and Relief Society. 8 Returned to Arizona Territory, 1911. 9 Died at Mesa. 10 (See Document 3.12)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates,” database and images, Arizona Department of Health Services (https://azdhs.gov/licensing/vital-records/genealogy/index.php, accessed May 2023); from Arizona State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, state index no. 653, county registered no. 798 (1913), Sarah E. Russell. Isabelle M. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” photocopy of typescript, n.d., p. 1, in Norma Guthrie Nix, comp., Collected Family Biographies, circa 1970, CHL. “Obituary,” Deseret Evening News, Feb. 7, 1914, 13.

  2. [2] Arizona death certificate, index no. 653/798. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 1. “Obituary,” 13.

  3. [3] “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 1–2.

  4. [4] “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 2. “Sarah Eliza Russell,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  5. [5] “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 3. Andrew Jenson, comp., “Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake City: Relief Society,” in manuscript history and historical reports, 1849–1968, n.p., Fifteenth Ward, Riverside Stake, CHL.

  6. [6] “Obituary,” 13. Andrew Jenson, comp., “Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake City: Y.L.M.I.A.,” in manuscript history and historical reports, 1849–1968, n.p., Fifteenth Ward, Riverside Stake, CHL. Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877), 494.

  7. [7] “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 3.

  8. [8] “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 3–4.

  9. [9] “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 4.

  10. [10] Arizona death certificate, index no. 653/798. “Obituary,” 13. Johnson, “Sarah E. Russell,” 4. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 6, 2016), Sarah Eliza Russell KWJX-YSY.