Sarah Jane Marlor

This is an excerpt from one of my ancestor's histories, Sarah Jane Marlor. She was a young very young and had a full family when her husband was killed. She was a the first member of the Church in her parent's family.
When the Salmon River Mission was closed because of Indian troubles in early 1858, Bailey Lake was assigned with a a small group to precede the main company and bring mail to Salt Lake City. At Bannock Creek in Arbon Valley (Power County) the group was ambushed by hostile Indians and Bailey was killed. His body was recovered by the main group of Saints returning from the Salmon River Mission. After being packed in snow in a wagon, it was hurriedly brought to the widow in North Ogden, the arrows still in his body. She prepared him for burial, put the body in a covered wagon, and took her children with her to the North Ogden cemetery in a rainstorm to bury her husband. She barely had time to bury her husband 's body before she had to evacuate her home and move south with approximately 30,000 other Saints in anticipation of the arrival of Johnston's Army in the territory. Weber County residents relocated into the area west of Provo, called the Provo Bottoms. (They had all been instructed to leave piles of straw in their log homes so they could be "torched" if Johston's Army failed to live up to his commitments.)
In the saints' temporary abode in Utah County President Brigham Young inquired of Pleasant Green Taylor (Sarah's brother- in-law) how the Widow Lake was faring. When he explained that she was doing reasonably well and that family members were trying to assist her as necessary. President Young said, "Brother Taylor, you should marry her and take care of Bailey's family."