Friday, June 8, 2012

Sarah Jane Smith Sanborn gravestone.

Looking east towards the Wasatch Mountains from the George Benjamin and Sarah Jane Smith Sanborn grave sites,  in the Ogden, Utah City Cemetery.
George Benjamin and Sarah Jane Sanborn 
biographies are posted here; Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.


On January 15, 1940 Sarah Jane Smith Sanborn passed away and was buried here in the Ogden City Cemetery next to her husband, George Benjamin Sanborn. Her two sons are buried on the far side of the plot (shown in this 2009 picture). I hate to think Sarah Jane was forgotten afterwards, but it appears she was. There may not have been enough money to order a gravestone at the time of her burial. And if ever there was, Sarah Jane was no longer there to see that it was done. 


Sanborn family descendants have added this gravestone to mark her grave near her husband's.

It's not quite the same as those of her husband and sons. There are new cemetery requirements, that require it be placed in cement.


Marlene Sanborn Silotti
November 22, 1931 – July 12, 2009.


Sanborn family descendants had the gravestone set for Memorial Day this year. 
And as a tribute to great grand daughter, Marlene Sanborn Silotti, who would have wanted it done.

2 comments:

  1. The gravestone turned out so nice. I hope you are pleased with it.

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  2. Thank you Flora Lee, I am most pleased! And pleasantly surprised to see what a lovely gravestone an artist again fashioned from a small discarded piece of granite.

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