Sarah Hallam

by Clesta Worthen Adams

Grandpa Worthen died when I was ten years old. We lived across town from him, and I don't remember visiting with him much after my grandmother died. She died when I had just turned three. When she was alive I remember visiting their home on Sundays quite often. I would usually fall asleep under the table and then have to walk or be carried on and a half miles home. This was before cars, and we had no horses. I distinctly remember on occasion when Grandma gave me a large slice of bread with sugar sprinkled on the top, then she sprinkled a few drops of water on it so the sugar wouldn't fall off. The other thin I remember about grandma was being lifter up to look at her in her coffin.

Here is the GEDCOM file I have at this point. I have also created this fan chart that shows some of the contents of the file, but not all.

As I have entered some of the stories I have found other names that are not in the GEDCOM file, so I'm sure someone has a more up-to-date copy.

But here is what I have for what it is worth.

Sarah Hallam Worthen was the daughter of William and Esther Holland Hallam. She was born September 14, 1825, in Stockport, Cheshire, England. She, with her parents, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England in 1841, and emigrated to America, February 5, 1842.

She heard the Prophet Joseph Smith preach his last sermon, saw him as he left for Carthage jail, and saw him when he was brought back after being martyred. She was married to Samuel Worthen in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844. She and Samuel received their endowments in the Nauvoo temple on February 6, 1846, one of the last days the Nauvoo temple was able to be used before the saints were driven out of Nauvoo.

written by Elizabeth Worthen Henderson

of Panguitch, Utah

Samuel Worthen, the son of Richard Worthen and Mary Cowap, was born Dec. 21, 1825, at Northwich Chesire, England. When a boy about ten years of age, he went as an apprentice to learn the trade of a mason; and through this training he became a master mechanic of the trade. He, in connection with his mother, brother and sister, immigrated from England to the United States when he was a young man. They joined the church in England in 1840.

In the year of 1843, when eighteen years old, he married Sarah Hallam, in the east, likely in Illinois, as their first two children were born at Nauvoo. A year before leaving the state, two of his brothers, Richard !! and Joseph, were drowned in the DesMoines River in Iowa, his only sister died in New Orleans.