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Given Name: Sarah Ann
Surname: Morgan

Gender: Female

Birth date: 14 January 1819

Birth place:
English Spelling: Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Merthyr Tudful, Glamorganshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 7 November 1901

Death place: Paragonah, Iron, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 9 November 1901

Burial place: Paragonah, Iron, Utah, United States View Sources

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Father: William Morgan
Mother: Elizabeth Richards

Siblings

David Edwards (1814-1863)

Married 22 June 1839 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales * Merthyr Tudful, Glamorganshire, Wales

Children

1841 UK Census	Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1861 UK Census	Aberdare, Glamorganshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1870 US Census	Paragoonah, Iron, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Paragoonah Precinct, Iron, Utah	Extract	Image
1900 US Census	Paragoonah Precinct, Iron, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 21 May 1864 aboard the ship General McClellan.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 23 June 1864.

"Mormon Migration," database and images (mormonmigration.byu.edu: accessed 25 October 2018), for Sarah Edwards, age 45, arrived 23 June 1864 on the General McClellan.

"Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel," database (history.lds.org: accessed 25 October 2018), Sarah Ann Edwards entry, William S. Warren Company (1864).

Edwards, Sarah Ann Morgan - Biography
Hand to the Plow
Hanks, Elizabeth (Edwards) (1) - Biography

Sarah Ann 's husband David Edwards died 18 Sep 1863 in Cwmbach, Aberdare, Glamorganshire. Eight months later on 21 May 1864 she brought their five surviving children (three others had died as very small children) to America. They settled in Paragonah, Southern Utah. A romanticized account of their journey from Wales to America was written by a great-granddaughter Ilene Hanks Kingsbury and published in 1962 in the "Relief Society Magazine" under the title "Hand to the Plow".