NOTE: On her headstone, it looks like the death year was carved and then corrected (causing some confusion on genealogy records). I added her death certificate that lists her death year as 1946 (and listed the same date for this memorial).

Life Sketch, written by Sarah Coleman Evans Taylor:

I was born September 22, 1864, at Lehi, Utah, to Rebecca Coleman Evans and Bishop David Evans.

My father was second Mayor of Lehi and first Bishop of Lehi. He was born in Cecil County, Maryland, October 27, 1804, to Israel Evans and Abigail Evans. My mother, Rebecca Coleman Evans, was the sixth wife of Bishop David Evans. She was born in Bedfordshire, England, October 4, 1838, to Prime Coleman and Sarah Thornton Coleman.

I have seven brothers and sisters: George, Prime, Harriet (Mrs. John Wilson), Sarah, myself (Mrs. Samuel J. Taylor), Rebecca, died at birth, Emma Jane (Mrs. John Roberts Jr.), Martha Ann (Mrs. Jerry Anson), and Ella (Mrs. Archie Manning).

I had very little education. I started school at the age of six years old and went until I was thirteen years old. The first school I remember going to was in one room in father's home. His wife Ann was the teacher. We had two or three books for the class so we could not do very much studying. After a few years we had a book and slate and pencil with which to write. The next school was at Sarah Smith's home in one room. Our benches were rough planks on some big flat rocks to hold them up off the floor. They were not very comfortable to sit on. The next school I remember was in the Thurman building. This was an improvement. Then I went up to the Franklin School in the Third Ward. We went up there because our half brother, David Evans Jr. taught in that building. Father had such a large family to go to school and money was scarce, so our brother taught us for nothing. There were about twelve children from our family going to school at one time. Our parents had to pay for our schooling in those days.

Our shoes were made of heavy leather. We had no rubbers or overshoes, so we had a can of mutton tallow that we put on the stove to get warm and then every night before we went to bed, we would grease our shoes so we could put them on in the morning to go to school. It would help to keep our feet dry when walking through the snow and rain.

I helped my mother wash wool down at Utah Lake and at the Race Mill. We had bushel baskets with handles on each side, then we would put a long stick through the handles. Putting the wool in the basket, we would wash it with our hands while the water was running through the basket. When it was clean we put it out to dry. When it was dry we had to pick out all the little sticks that we did not get out when washing it, then it had to be carded. After that mother spun it into yarn, then it had to be washed again, colored and washed again, then it was ready to weave into cloth. Mother spun and wove cloth and carpet rugs for years. The family of Bishop David Evans made up into cloth 500 pounds of wool each summer for the winter clothing.

We went into the fields in the fall to help with the harvest, picking up potatoes and gathering ground cherries to make preserves. We made our soap by burning grease wood to make the lye. Fruit was very scarce at that time, also sugar. I helped my mother make applebutter with cider and apples, no sugar. I had to stir it for hours to keep it from burning. I began making some of my own clothes when I was eleven years old and have been sewing since; even making a living doing so. I took sewing lessons from Hannah Jones so I could make a living sewing for other people.

I taught Primary for years, teaching the children needle work, then was chosen First Counselor to Polly Lossee March 9, 1903. Was on the Stake Board for a number of years. I was in the Primary for sixteen years.

I worked on the Old Folks Committee at one time for ten years and was released and now I have been working again on the committee for eleven years, making altogether twenty-one years which I enjoyed very much, but had to quit on account of my age.

I worked in the Red Cross during World War I, knitting and making surgical bandages that were sent to the service men.

I was in the first choir under the direction of John L. Gibbs.

I have written a number of poems to my family and friends on different occasions. My husband, Sam, was sick for thirteen years and in that time I have sewed for people. stretched curtains, gleaned wheat, milked cows, and churned butter.

I kept the Lehi Hospital in butter when Dr. Fred Worlton was there.

I was a member of the Ladies Farm Bureau, going to Logan for a summer extension course at the "A. C."

I was elected custodian of the relics of the Daughters of Pioneers and the penny jar.

I married Samuel Joseph Taylor, son of Samuel Roger and Martha Ann Fox Taylor, July 24, 1885, in Lehi,Utah. He died in Lehi, Utah, November 6, 1921.

I have two daughters. Verlillian (Verlle) born April 29, 1887, married to Heber C. Hart, and Marvel, born March 29, 1902. married to Afton Jens Peterson. I have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.