Saturday, July 4, 2009







The Sarah Granger Kimball Home was probably my favorite. Even though it was quite a small home, it was a little outside the city and was clapboard instead of brick. Lots of flower gardens around it because she loved flowers. She used to have the ladies over all the time to quilt and make shirts for the men working on the temple. It was in her home that the idea for a women’s club came about. Sarah asked Eliza R. Snow to write up a constitution for the club, which she did. Sarah showed the constitution to the Prophet. Joseph took it under consideration and prayed about it and he told her that the Lord had something even better in mind. That’s how the Relief Society came about. Sarah became a ward RS president after arriving in SLC and remained that ward’s RS president for 40 years! When the Saints started leaving Nauvoo, of course Sarah wanted to go. Her husband, however, was well liked, well off and not a member. He didn’t want to go. She bought a wagon and loaded it and went without him, but he followed later when his business was taken care of. Three years after they married he was baptized into the church.

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