LONGSTROTH, Sarah^{[1, 2]}

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• Name	LONGSTROTH, Sarah
  Birth	19 Feb 1826	Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England
  Christening	5 Mar 1826	Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Jan 1858	Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Death	26 Jan 1858	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  WAC	19 Feb 2002	SDIEG
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  Person ID	I51421	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	LONGSTROTH, Stephen ,   b. 29 Jun 1789, Langcliffe, Yorkshire, England Langcliffe, Yorkshire, Englandd. 4 Feb 1861, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States (Age 71 years)
  Mother	GILL, Ann ,   b. 3 Aug 1795, Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England Arncliffe, Yorkshire, Englandd. 27 Jan 1878, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F25713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	RICHARDS, Willard ,   b. 25 Jun 1804, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 11 Mar 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 49 years)
  Children	+ 1. RICHARDS, Sarah Ellen ,   b. 25 Aug 1850, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 22 Mar 1915, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F12857	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  " A man cannot write about the kind of father I had without having his judgment tinctured with affection. Thirty-four years of companionship, playing, fishing, and working together left many memories that become more precious with the passing years. Joseph was the son of Willard Richards of the First Presidency of the Mormon Church. He was born at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, in October, 1848. His mother was one of an emigrant company then en route to Great Salt Lake City. The weather was cold and stormy and the emigrants were fearful that they might be snowed in for the winter. They wished to keep moving but also be kind to the expectant mother. The day after she had her baby they placed mother and child in a wagon without springs and resumed their journey over the one hundred and sixty miles of rough road to the "valley." Young Joseph lost both parents at an early age but was well cared for by relatives. He had very little schooling and went to work early. Between the ages of ten and sixteen he spent most of his life in the saddle, herding cows in the Big Field below Salt Lake. Later he worked as a hand on a ranch in western Utah, and still later had a similar job on Clayton's ranch situtated on the old emigrant trail in East Canyon. While there he had more than one brush with marauding Indians. At sixteen years of age, he had an intellectual awakening. He gave up his ranch job and returned to his former home in Salt Lake and became the janitor of the Z.C.M.I. Drug Store. The sinecure carried with it the privilege of sleeping on a cot in the back room next to the whiskey and brandy barrels. It would seem that spiritous liquors were as popular in the 1860's as they are now. After the store was closed for the day and the litter cleaned up, he had the rest of the night to himself. That was when he did his studying. He realized that he had to work hard as he had so much to learn and so little time to catch up with other boys his own age. Most of his study was devoted to pharmacy and chemistry. At eighteen, when he was nearly ready for a job as a drug clerk, he was called on a mission to England. He traveled by wagon to the end of the railroad in Nebraska. His missionary life was most fortunate in that it gave him his first opportunity to read English literature. It was the beginining of a lifetime hobby. Every spare minute he devoted to reading." (The above excerpt is from pages 89 and 90 of the above referenced book.)

  
  

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  [S101] GEDCOM file imported on 18 Oct 2001. [S103] GEDCOM file imported on 23 Sep 2002.