SARAH BAKER DONE

 

 

 SARAH  BARKER  DONE

    Sarah was born on January 6,01828 in Thornhill, Lees, England.  She was the daughter of John and Nancy Morby Barker.  She was the seventh child in a family that would include ten children, nine girls and one boy.
    Thornhill was a coal mining town.  Sarah and all of her siblings would eventually work in the coal mine since that was the only work they were able to obtain.  A law was later passed that forbid girls to work in the mines.  Sarah and her sister, Ruth went to Glosip to get work in a factory.
    When Sarah was twenty-four years old she married John Done on February  15, 1852 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England.  They lived with John’s mother, Ann Hancock Done, after they were married.  Both John and Sarah continued working in the factory.  
    John, Sarah, Ann, and John’s two brothers, James and Gorge, were taught the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  The entire family was baptized on December 6, 1852.  When John and Sarah’s children began arriving beginning in early 1853.  The first two children were born in England.  They were Abraham, born March 3, 1853; and Elizabeth Anne, born June 27, 1854.
    Soon after the family was baptized, the family was advised to immigrate to the United States and then on to Zion.  It was decided that James and Geoge were to go first to America.  John, Sarah, his mother, and their two children were to  follow as soon as they could.
    The rest of the Done family followed two years later after they borrowed money from the Perpetual immigration Company.   This load enabled the rest of the family to leave for America.
    The family sailed on the ship, Samuel Curling, on April 22, 1855.  After arriving in America they traveled to Mormon Grove and joined the Milo Andrus Company on August 5, 1855.  The trip across the plains was very hard on the family.  John had never driven an ox team before.  It took him period of time to tell one from the other and where the oxen belonged when hitched to the wagon.and  One of the ox got lost and was never recovered.
    The family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on October 24, 1855.  Sarah walked most of the way carrying young Elizabeth Anne in her arms.  They first settled in Little Cottonwood that was about ten miles south of Salt Lake City.  It was initially very difficult struggle for the family because food was very scarce and hard to get.
    The Done’s later moved south Payson in the south end of Utah Valley.  The family added six more children to their family: George Henry, born June 29, 1854; May Jane, born July 5, 1859; Hihn, born August 9, 1861; Sarah Ellen, born September 9, 1863 and died at age 1; twins, Wilford and Williard born December 10, 1865.  Wilford later died when he was about one year old.
    Sarah passed away on November 27. 1886 and John passed away on Juy 14, 1901.  They were both buried in the Payson City Cemetery.