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Sarah McDonald : "bishop of the First Ward"

Title: Sarah McDonald : "bishop of the First Ward" / by Peggy Petersen Barton & Drew Barton Quinn.
Author: Barton, Peggy Petersen, 1931-
Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Aspen Books, ©1993.

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Quinn, Drew Barton, 1956-

Description

111 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Sarah McDiarmid McDonald (1863-1957) was born in Nova Scotia, Canada to John and Flora McClean McDiarmid. Her parents were Scottish emigrants. Sarah became a school teacher and in 1889 she married a sea captain named John Alexander McDonald (1853-1927). They became the parents of two children. They later moved to England where John continued his naval career. While living in Liverpool, Sarah met the Mormon missionaries in 1897 and became converted but was not allowed to be baptized by John who believed she had been mislead by a cult. She was finally baptized in 1904. In 1908 Sarah and her two children returned to Nova Scotia. John told her not to return to England unless she gave up the LDS Church and she and her children were later forced to leave her family's house in Nova Scotia. In 1913 Sarah and her children moved to Salt Lake City where in 1923 her daughter married Mark E. Peterson. In 1928 Sarah became the Relief Society President of the Salt lake City First Ward; a position she held for twelve years. John McDonald died in Boston in 1927. Sarah died in 1957. Descendants live in Utah.

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Biography
Biographies
Biographies.

ISBN

1562362119
9781562362119

LCCN

93038204

OCLC

ocm29223426
29223426
SCSB-2013164

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Princeton University Library