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Sarah Frances Mangum

Female 1838 - 1889  (51 years)


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  • Name Sarah Frances Mangum 
    Born 11 Sep 1838  , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 28 Oct 1889  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Nephi City Cemetery, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I690  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William Mangum,   b. 25 Dec 1811, , Maury, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1888, Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Sarah or Sally Ada Adair,   b. 27 Dec 1815, , , Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1852, near Loup River Ford, Platte, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years) 
    Married Abt 1833  of, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F374  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James Richey,   b. 13 Aug 1821, near Pickensville, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Aug 1890, Fort Wingate, McKinley, New Mexico, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 28 Apr 1853  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Divorced Yes, date unknown 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F522  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1166, neighbor with John Price:
      William Mangum, 39, AL.
      Sarah, 33, AL.
      Caroline, 15, AL.
      Sarah, 12, AL.
      Cyrus, 10, AL.

      1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Census return:
      Mangum: William 39, Sarah 36, Amelia C. 16, Sarah F. 12, Cyrus F. 10, Marinda 0. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.]

      1880 US: Hoytsville, Summit, Utah, NA T9-1338, FHL T9-1338, p. 19B:
      Alfred G. White, marr., 28, Eng Eng Eng, school teacher.
      Sarah F., wife, 30, AL AL AL.

      2. Reviewed 24 Nov 2002 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Sarah Francis Mangum, born Sept. 29, 1840 Pickens Co., AL. Married David Crockett Cazier. Died Oct. 28, 1889 Nephi, Juab, Utah."

      2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3338, no photo in article: "Sarah Frances Mangum Richey Cazier White was born 11 Sep 1838 in Pickins County, Alabama, to William Mangum and Sarah Ada Adair and died 28 Oct 1889 at Logan, Cache, Utah [Note: not sure if this is an error - the story below seems to indicate Salt Lake City which is also what most databases also show for death]; pioneer of 1852 Wagon Train; spouses and Children:
      Spouse no. 1: James Richey, married 1857 [should be 1853 per Ordinance Index citation below], he dies 7 Aug 1890 in Ft. Wingate, New Mexico; no children.
      Spouse no. 2: David Crockett Cazier, married 7 Jun 1857, he dies 19 May 1929 at Nephi, Juab, Utah; Children:
      David William, 14 May 1858
      Adelbert, 4 Apr 1860
      Sarah Ellen, 2 Apr 1862 (died at 4 weeks)
      Orson, 19 Jul 1863
      Edwin Ear, 25 Aug 1865
      Spouse no. 3: Alfred White, married after 1875 in Nephi, Juab, Utah, the death date is unknown; no children.
      Sarah Francis was born at Pickins County, Alabama, 1838, into a family of six children. She was eight when her parents arrived in Nauvoo on Jan. 15, 1846. They arrived to find they could not stay. Persecution was forcing every one out of Illinois and Missouri and by weeks end they were following the Saints across the Mississippi River traveling West. They stopped for one month at Mt. Pisgah, and while there Sarah Francis' one year old brother died, and was buried in the Mt. Pisgah burial grounds. The family continued to Council Bluff and stayed four and one half years, another short stay at the Bongo River where Marinda Elizabeth, a one year eight month sister died of cholera and a few days later, at Loup Fork, Sarah's mother became so ill from the disease that her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, on July 3rd, 1852. Sarah Francis was near her fourteenth birthday when they reached the Salt Lake Valley. the family spent the winter in Brigham City and in the Spring of 1853, William married Delight Potter, then the Mangums moved to Payson for four years. Sarah, for a while lived with her aunt Lucinda Richey, and for three months was James Richeys's wife also. She did not like that marriage, got a divorce and went, with her brother Cy Mangum, to Nephi. In David Cazier's writings he says, 'A beautiful girl named Sarah Francis came to Nephi with her brother. With me it was a case of love at first sight... I didn't know how to start things, at last I noticed that she was bare footed. I went all the way to Salt Lake City by ox-team to get her a pair of shoes, which she greatly appreciated. I was 23 and she was 19. We did not have a wedding like couples have today. If I'd had to pay for a license, I could not have done so. Then Sarah Francis took what little belongings she had in a basket and we both carried this basket and walked the long distance to my adobe hut which was half a dugout. Sarah even borrowed a dress to get married in. When the first baby came, we had nothing for clothes so Sarah had to take cotton and wool from beneath the quilts and spin on the old spinning wheel to make clothes for the baby. We were the happiest couple that I ever seen.' Orson Cazier, her fourth Child, later told his grand daughter Marion Blackett, that when his father took Eliza Naylor in polygamy his parents had been married for about nine years. His mother tried but after eleven years, could not adjust to polygamy and in 1875, being thirty-seven years of age, divorced his father David Cazier. Sarah Francis then opened a store down on Main Street and his father would go down often to visit her, chop wood for her and eat with her. Sarah Francis later married Alfred White who had been a school teacher in Nephi, and they were married for fourteen years. In 1889, while living in Salt Lake City with her son Ed, Sarah Francis caught typhoid fever and passed away at the Deseret Hospital (L.D.S.) on Oct. 29, 1889 at the age of 51. David Cazier had her brought back to Nephi for burial, for he always loved her, but he was stubborn and she was proud."

      3. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851:
      Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John.
      Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm.
      Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Siras Mangum, son of Wm.
      William Mangum, bro. of John.
      Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed).
      Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family.
      Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum.
      John Mangum.
      Mary Ann Mangum.
      Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John)

      4. From 31 Dec 2005 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database "ldshistorical": "Cazier, David, a High Councilor in the Juab Stake of Zion and a resident of Nephi Juab co., Utah, is a son of William Cazier and Pleasant Drake, and was born May 1, 1834, in Oldham county, Kentucky. The family moved to Moltry county, Ill., in 1840. Elder Cazier writes: "My father and mother joined the Church in 1845 and moved with their family to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1846, where they shared with the Saints in the general hardships of that time. My brothers James and John enlisted in the Mormon Battalion; my mother died in the fall of 1846 in a hay shed and was buried in a coffin made of a hollowed-out log; there were no flowers in evidence at her funeral. My father went into Missouri to split rails, thereby earning corn and pork wherewith to feed his family. We resided in Iowa for four years and when we departed from that territory to migrate to Utah, we left a good house. We settled in Nephi in 1851, being among the first settlers of that place. I was baptized in 1852 and took an active part in the Walker and Black hawk wars. Together with my brothers John and Samuel, I also participated in the Echo canyon campaign during the winter of 1857–58." "Nephi—The first election in Nephi was conducted on the first Monday in May, 1852, according to the Deseret News of December 11, 1852. Officers elected were Josiah Miller, Mayor; Timothy B. Foote, Charles H. Bryan, John Carter and Isaac Grace, Aldermen; Amos Gustin, John Cazier, David Webb, James Crabb, Cleon Elmer, Levi Gifford, Ichabod Gifford, Thomas Tranter and Miles Miller, Councilors; Zimri H. Baxter, Assessor and Collector; William Cazier, Treasurer; Israel Hoyt, Marshal; and Charles Sperry, Supervisor of Streets."
      David's brother, John Cazier, was a Mormon Battalion veteran (as was also another brother James Cazier) who married Mary Ann Adair. The following is found in the online Ordinance Index FHL film 183393, p. 156, dated 21 Jul 1853 OTHER between John Cazier, b. 14 Mar 1821 at Wood Co., Virginia and Mary Ann Adair, b. 13 Jun 1837 at Pickens Co., Alabama. John Cazier, md. Mary Ann Adair before she married John Valentine Carson. She was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair and Frances Rogers; Thomas is brother of my direct ancestor Samuel Jefferson Adair. After Mary Ann dies, John Valentine Carson later marries in 1855 Hannah Waggle (sealed 1857) and they adopt Jemima Ann Adair, dau. of Geo. Washington Adair and his first wife Ann Chestnut. From Worldconnect, it appears John had at least a couple dozen children due to polygamous wives. He does not appear to have had any children by Mary Ann Adair. The marriage with Mary Ann Adair was short-lived.
      Both James and John Cazier were members of the Willis Sick Detachment at Pueblo and would have known David Frederick and Ebenezer and Jane Hanks.

      BIRTH:
      1. Online Ordinance Index has 11 Sept 1838; death information below has 11 Sep 1838. Marriage record to James Richey in Endowment House has 11 Sep 1837. Perhaps the year 1837 was fudged for 1838 so she did not appear quite so young on Apr. 28, 1853 when she married.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. The following information is derived from LDS Ordinance Index, LDS Ancestral File v4.19, and Ancestry.com 24 Nov 2002 databases "dcazier" and ":838418":
      James Ritchie (Richey): EHOUS extracted LDS temple sealing record for James "Ritchie" and "Sarah Frances Mangum" for 28 Apr 1853; this is James "Richey." They later separate as noted above in the citation from "Pioneer Women."
      David Crockett Cazier: David Crockett Cazier, 7 Jun 1857, Nephi, Juab, UT. Ancestral File indicates she was divorced from this individual. David Cazier was born 1 May 1834 in Brownsville, Oldham, KY to William Cazier and Pleasant Drake. He died 19 May 1929 and was buried 22 May 1929 in Nephi, Juab, Utah. 5 children were born to this marriage: David, Adelbert, Sarah Ellen, Orson, and Edwin Earl all born in Nephi from May 1858 to Aug 1865. David marries second Eliza Naylor about 1866 in Salt Lake City. 1880 census for Nephi, UT for David Cazier, 46 years old, born in KY shows wife as Eliza, age 38, from England with 3 children: Adelbert, Orson, and Edwin ages 20, 17, 14 respectively and probably of first marriage. It appears they get divorced and she dies 1 Jan 1893. David's marries his third wife, Sarah Ann Warrilow, 30 Nov 1892 in Manti, UT; she dies Aug 1912. He marries his fourth wife, Mary Amelia Amass, 30 Aug 1921.
      Alfred George White: 1880 census for Hoytsville, Summit, UT shows Sarah married to Alfred G. White but she gives perhaps a false age of 30 when she is really 40; he is 29. He appears to have actually been born 11 Dec 1854 in Bermondsey, Southwark, Surrey, Eng. to William White and Elizabeth Pollow Warn and he died 6 Jun 1932 with no location given. He also marries Mary Alice Wilkinson in 1881.

      2. "The Record of James Richey," written by James Richey on December 9, 1855 including a few extracts from his journal with memories by his son, James Moroni Richey, edited and compiled by Susan Sherwood Arnett, 928 E. La Vieve Lane, Tempe, AZ, 85284, 602-839-2882, fax 839-2740, email: warnett@amug.org , copy in Washington County Library, 50 So. Main, St. George, Utah, 84770. The following portion is about James Richey's wives as recalled by James' son: "Now I, James Moroni, as the eldest son will continue with the things I can remember. My parents were called to settle Sanpete Valley in the fall of 1849. Before they left Salt Lake, they were given their endowments in the old Endowment House... Father took a second wife, his niece, Frances Mangum. She lived with him 3 months and left. He also took a third wife, Nancy Leemaster. She had one son, Robert Alma. Nancy left while her baby was small, but we heard of him often. He was a staunch Latter-day Saint. He married Addie Webb. They did not have children of their own, but adopted a son. Mother was the wife that stayed with father through all the trials that came to them, and had 9 children..."

      DEATH:
      1. The "Utah State Historical Society Burials Database" on the web states birth 11 Sep 1838 and death 28 Oct 1899 under the name Sarah M. Cazier in the Nephi City Cemetery - she is buried in close proximity to David Cazier. Same burial database also has a Sarah F. White born in Alabama, d. 28 Oct 1889 SLC, UT with note that she was removed to Nephi, Utah.

      2. Per biography cited above. Citation also gives reason and circumstances of her death.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. FHL film 2056023-2056026, especially film 5 which contains Mangum-Adair materials. Title is "George Addison Mangum's Genealogical Collection" which is his lifetime work donated to library in 1998; he was born in Utah in 1922, of Blackfoot, ID and is perhaps a brother to Ivey Mangum Hale. Brief summary includes: 2056023, item 1, book of remembrance; item 2, surname index of changes and volumes; item 3, Person materials; 2056024, items 3 thru 6 and 2056026, Mangum/Adair materials. Included are many family group sheets of sidelines and downlines, many of them unconnected.

      2. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File.