Sarah Jane Spooner

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Spooner was born on 1 October 1839, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, David Nash Spooner, was 36 and her mother, Ann Dayer, was 26. She married Benjamin Franklin Johnson on 5 April 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1854 and lived in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841 and Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 November 1911, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Franklin Johnson
1818–1905
Sarah Jane Spooner
1839–1911
Marriage: 5 April 1857
Julia Ann Johnson
1860–1959
Sarah Jane Johnson
1862–1938
Johnson
1864–1864

Sources (41)

  • Sarah J Johnson, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Sarah Jane Spooner, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1851

Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English sponer, of uncertain meaning. It appears to be a derivative of Middle English spon ‘chip of wood, shingle, spoon’, and could denote either someone who made or fitted wooden roofing shingles or who made and sold spoons as eating implements, typically of wood or horn.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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LETTER TO FRANKLIN AND LELA HAYMORE

LETTER TO FRANKLIN AND LELA HAYMORE Tustin, California January 9, 1963 Dear Franklin and Lela: I wrote to Aunt Ester Lewis and asked her to write and tell me what she could remember about …

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