Sarah Ann Sessions

Sarah Ann Sessions was born on 4 October 1881 in Bountiful, Utah Territory to Perrigrine and Sarah Ann Bryson Sessions. When she was born she had three older brothers and three older sisters. Her father Perrigrine was the first settler of the Bountiful area in Davis County when he arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Her father had a farm and she grew up in Bountiful.

When Sarah was sixteen she met Eugene Henry Clark and later married him on 14 June 1899 in the Salt Lake Temple. She helped Eugene with the hired hands for their farm in Farmington by providing three meals a day for them. She is the mother of six children; one daughter and five sons. Her third child Wesley Sessions Clark became ill of spinal meningitis and died at 19 months in 1907 while her husband Eugene was recovering from breaking his leg.

After Eugene passed away in 1931, Sarah was involved in Daughters of the Utah Pioneers serving in varies capacities. Sarah served in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as president of the Relief Society of her ward and as president of the Y.W.M.I.A. She also served on the Y.W.M.I.A. stake boards and the primary association of the Farmington Stake and in the Davis County area. She passed away after a lingering illness at her son, Kenneth Eugene's home in Los Angeles, California on 18 March 1941 at the age of 59.