Interim Content
Kimball, Sarah Melissa Granger
Biography
29 Dec. 1818–1 Dec. 1898. Schoolteacher. Born in Phelps, Ontario Co., New York. Daughter of Oliver Granger and Lydia Dibble. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, 1833. Married Hiram Kimball, 22 Sept. 1840. Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, fall 1840. Proposed formation of charitable society in Nauvoo, 1842. Founding member of Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. Migrated to Salt Lake Valley, Sept. 1851. Served as president of Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward Relief Society, 1857–1898. Actively participated in leadership roles within Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Society, grain movement, political indignation meetings, and woman suffrage movement. Died in Salt Lake City.
Links
papers
- Affidavit from Jonathan Holmes, 7 February 1843
- Agreement with Mead & Betts, 2 August 1839
- Authorization for Oliver Granger, 6 May 1839
- History Draft [1 January–3 March 1843]
- Joseph Smith’s Store Daybook A, January–July 1842
- Letter from Robert D. and Sarah Phinney Foster, circa 16 August 1842
- Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 August 1841
- Memorandum of Deeds, 3 March 1842
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 November 1843
- Minutes and Discourses, 17 March 1842
- Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, circa 12 April 1828–circa 1 July 1829
- Poem from Eliza R. Snow, 12 October 1842
- Poem from Eliza R. Snow, 20 August 1842
- Revelation, 19 May 1842
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A
- Gender
- Female
- Alternate Names
Granger, Sarah Melissa