Sarah Melissa Granger Kimball

29 December 1818 — 1 December 1898

1 Born at Phelps, Ontario County, New York; daughter of Lydia Dibble and Oliver Granger. 2 Moved to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, 1833. 3 Married Hiram Kimball, 1840; three children. 4 Settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1840. 5 Proposed the formation of a charitable society in Nauvoo, 1842; joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842. 6 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1851. 7 Settled at Salt Lake City. 8 Served as president of the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward Relief Society, 1857–1898. 9 Widowed, 1863. 10 Actively participated in leadership roles within the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Society, grain movement, political indignation meetings, and the woman suffrage movement. 11 Appointed secretary to Eliza R. Snow on the Relief Society general board, 1880. 12 Served on the finance committee of the Deseret Hospital Association. 13 Served as president of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association and honorary vice president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association. 14 Elected third vice president of the Relief Society upon its incorporation, 1892. 15 Died at Salt Lake City. 16 (See Document 1.2, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.15–3.17, 3.24, 3.25, 3.28, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.10–4.12, 4.27, 4.28, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Sarah M. Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” Woman’s Exponent 12, no. 7 (Sept. 1, 1883): 51. “Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849–1949,” p. 86 (1898), Sarah M. Kimball; database and images, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014); citing Management and Archives, Salt Lake City, UT; FHL microfilm 4139834. E. B. Wells, “A Grand and Noble Woman,” Deseret News [weekly], Dec. 10, 1898, 13.

  2. [2] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. “Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849–1949,” Sarah M. Kimball.

  3. [3] Jill Mulvay Derr, Sarah M. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1976), 4. “President Sarah M. Kimball,” Woman’s Exponent 27, no. 14 (Dec. 15, 1898): 77.

  4. [4] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Sarah Melissa Granger L7FX-FVJ and Hiram Kimball LH2J-2RC . In addition to her three sons with Hiram Kimball (Hiram, Oliver, and Franklin), Sarah also raised an American Indian foster daughter (Kate), adopted a daughter (Lizzie) in 1865, and adopted an infant son (Julius), who lived only a few months, in 1880. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 65739, Kate Kimball, Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT. “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 1703/514(1931), Elizabeth Kimball. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 98 (1880), Julius G. Kimball; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.

  5. [5] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51.

  6. [6] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842. Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. Sarah M. Kimball, “Early Relief Society reminiscence,” Mar. 17, 1882, in Relief Society record, 1880–1892, CHL. “President Sarah M. Kimball,” 77.

  7. [7] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Nov. 2014), Sarah Melissa Granger Kimball.

  8. [8] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. “President Sarah M. Kimball,” 77.

  9. [9] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. Wells, “A Grand and Noble Woman,”13.

  10. [10] Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51.

  11. [11] See “Great Indignation Meeting,” Deseret Evening News, Jan. 14, 1870, [2], and Jan. 15, 1870, [2]. “Minutes of Ladies’ Co-operative Retrenchment Meeting,” Deseret Evening News, Feb. 16, 1870, [2]. “Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the Ladies Co-operative Retrenchment Society,” Feb. 19, 1870, Relief Society minutes and records, vol. 1, 1868–1873, Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake [Riverside] Stake, CHL. “General Meeting of Central and Ward Committees,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 13 (Dec. 1, 1876): 99.

  12. [12] “Salt Lake Stake Relief Society Conference,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 3 (July 1, 1880): 21–22. “President Sarah M. Kimball,” 77. “Relief Society Report, Seting Apart Officers, &c.,” July 17, 1880, in Relief Society record, 1880–1892, pp. 9–14, CHL. “R.S. Reports,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 7 (Sept. 1, 1880): [53]–54. Eliza R. Snow Smith and Sarah M. Kimball, “The Relief Society,” Woman’s Exponent 11, no. 9 (Mar. 1, 1883): 148–149.

  13. [13] “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2.

  14. [14] “President Sarah M. Kimball,” 77. Derr, Sarah M. Kimball, 10, 13.

  15. [15] “A Grand and Noble Woman,” 13. “President Sarah M. Kimball,” 77.

  16. [16] “Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849–1949,” Sarah M. Kimball. Wells, “A Grand and Noble Woman,” 13.