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- Sarah Hanson Stark Highlights from History written by Eleanor Stark Edman71 in Spanish Fork Utah to Henrick Hanson and Ane Kerstin Olsen Hanson. Sarah was the 3rd child and 1st girl born to this couple. Their children were nammed Henry, George, Joseph, Sarah, Agusta, Jacob, Hyrum and Annie. They were poor as were most of the pioneer families. The children helped by hearding cows, drying fruit, house work and farm work. Sarah was hungry for education, but only went to school when the boys were kept out for farmwork. Then she took their place in the classroom. She was a skinny little girl and did most of the family shopping when old enough, because her parents never learned to sppeak English very well and it was difficult for them to be understood by the shopkeepers. Sarah was a very spiritual young person and was put in offices of leadership as she grew. She was President of the MIA for many years. She cooked for the railroad gang when the railroad was being built up Spanish Fork Canyon.and Moroni both lived in the Little Denmark of Spanish Fork. Their families knew each other . Moroni and Sarah wer attracted to each other annd cooresponded when Moroni was working in Mamouth. On February 10, 1897 they were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Moroni had bought a small home on the hills of Mamouth where he and his bride moved after the wedding. Here Annna was born. Mother was made MIA President as she had been in her ward in Spanish Fork. She loved this work.chigan. Sarah's brothers built her a small two room home on a lot they owned next to her mother's sister, Aunt Lena. Here, four months after Dad left, she gave birth to Henry, her first boy. It was a hard struggle to keep going with 2 small children and get a few dollars sent to her husband each month. However, Sarah was always a hard worker and a very good manager, so they got by. . When they had enough they came back to their home in Spanish, and Moroni became a full fledged farmer, an occupation he loved and became good at. But it was a long trip from Spanish Fork to Leland each morning and evening, and Sarah with her now 3 children, Grant being born, moved into the log house that the former owners, the Koyles, had lived. They had sold out because of their child drowning in the canal that flowed by their yard. The log house soon became too small for their growing family, so they had a lumber addition built on the north side. In that room Mark was born. As his farm prospered Dad thought Sarah deserved better accomodations so they began their plans for a nice brick home. Eleanor was born in the log house just six months before the family moved into the new home.member an old dirty milk man that picked our milk up each morning. In the winteter, mother would bring him to warm him up by the stove. Mothers leadership talents were used in the Leland Ward. She was MIA President for many years and later as Relief Society President for many years. had to go to Spanish Fork for groceries by catching horse, harnessing it and hitching it to a buggy, getting the kids and travel to town. We always stopped at Anut Agusta Finch, Moms sister, to visit. We were very close familes.per on a cold winter night and read us a good story. She loved poetry and encouraged us all to learn poetry. We recited poetry as we did dishes or turned the separator. Sara and Moroni saw to it that each of their children had an opportunity for an eduducation. We all went on to college, four of us graduating from BYU, with Henry going on for his Masters and Doctors degrees.art and their children. He was gone for 2 1/2 years during that very dangerous time. Henry was onlly 16 when he left and it was now his responsibility, and to a lesser degree, Grant & Mark, to run a big farm. Sarah and the family struggled through those years. Moroni at last came home, we were so glad to have him home at lastt. Mother shed the tears she had held back for 2 1/2 years.he would like to know. Because of the sterling qualities of Dad and Mom, Eleanor became Mrs. Frank M. Edman.ly after Dad died. She got glocoma and had to have an eye removed. To relieve the loneliness Anna took her with her to Duchane and Beaver in her work as a Supervisor of Schools. In 1952 she had a sick spell and was hospitalized. When released she stayed with Eleanor and her famiily. She became a blessing to all, showing by her actions, kindness, patience, tolerance and love. When Anna got out of school in June she took her back to Leland, and on July 4, 1953 she had a severe stroke that stopped all functions and she died 4 days later in Hughes Hospital in Spanish Fork.he is with us still,
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1871 - 1953 (81 år)
