Sarah was born in 1832. She passed away in 1904.
Andrew married Sarah Ann Roe in January of 1851. She was with the same group of Saints that he journeyed with from Philadelphia. Sarah had been a housekeeper for Andrew and his two boys.
Sketch Sarah Scott[1]
"Daughter of George Humphreys Roe (b: February 6, 1794) and Abby Jane Welden (b: November 7, 1809) in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Ann Roe was born in Philadelphia in the fall when the countryside is shining with brilliantly colored foliage. Her father was a carpenter who died when Sarah was twelve years old, leaving her mother to make a living for her and her little brother. She helped by working as a serving girl and learned many skills of a homemaker.
Christmas day in Philadelphia can be very cold, but that is the day Sarah Ann chose to be baptized when she was fifteen years old. Her home had been the gathering place for the Mormon Elders for two years with Jedediah Grant as one of those to influence her.
In the Spring of 1850, Sarah Ann, her mother and brother left Philadelphia in a company of 133 Saints bound for Kanesville, Iowa en route for Salt Lake City. They had not the sufficient means to complete the journey and had to stay in Kanesville to earn the rest.
One of the company, Andrew Hunter Scott, bought a farm in Kanesville. He was traveling with his two sons, George and Hyrum. His wife back in Bucks County, Pennsylvania had refused to give up the Methodist religion and had taken their two girls and left him.
On Jan. 12, 1851 Sarah Ann and Andrew were married and by the next spring, ready with wagon and team and supplies enough to sustain them, they started with the Morris Phelps Wagon Company for the Great Salt Lake Valley. The exhausting arduous, Indian-pestered journey was finished on Sept. 26, 1851, a most welcome, wonderful present for Sarah Ann's nineteenth birthday.
Their wagon was their home for a month, but by the time their first baby was born they were in a home in Salt Lake City. Their permanent home was to be Provo, Utah, their first cabin built of logs with dirt floor and dirt roof. The window was a space in the logs with willows nailed across instead of glass.
The cabin was situated on the outskirts of town on the trail of the Indians to their fishing ground, so when the Indians were on the war path, Andrew moved his family to town, where they camped out until they bought lots in the city and lived there until they settled on their sixty acre farm in the south west part of Provo in 1865.
Farming, never certain, was affected further by the Provo river flooding and the scourge of grasshoppers that ate everything in a swath for miles, threatening the very existence of those dependent upon their crops. But they kept on. With prayers and guidance, determination to stand and defend the existence they had spent their lives in forging, they sheltered and cared for some of those families abandoning Salt Lake City to Johnston's Army in 1858. As Andrew accepted more responsibility to lead their community, Sarah Ann's shoulders took up the responsibility for their home and children.
Her own calling was President of the Relief Society which she carried diligently for thirty-six years, and still after she was released, she continued to help those in need of spiritual and physical comfort for those bishops to follow for the rest of her life. Andrew was the husband of four wives, the father of twenty-three children. He was older than Sarah and she outlived him by thirty years. Her desire was that all of her family to the last generation would be faithful to their covenants and calling to this life."
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