Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....Perkins, Sarah Laub October 9, 1938
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Las Vegas Evening Review 10/11/1938
SARAH LAUB PERKINS DIES SUNDAY AT HER FAMILY HOME IN OVERTON

Mrs. Sarah Laub Perkins, affectionatey {sic} known to thousands of southern 
Nevadans as "Grandma", 87-year-old Nevada and Utah pioneer, died at her home 
in Overton, Nevada, Sunday night after an illness of 10 months, caused by an 
accident in which she sustained a broken hip last November.

Mrs. Perkins was born at Calwell, Clay county, Missouri, November 10, 1850.  
She crossed the plains with her parents when she was but two years of age.  
The family arrived in Salt Lake City in 1852 and remained there for eight 
years, during which her father, a master builder and millwright, helped to 
build the Salt Lake theatre, the Nauvoo House of Joseph Smith, and other 
buildings.  She recalled many events in the history of the community when she 
was a small girl.

In 1862 the family moved to Dixie, Utah, responding to a call from Brigham 
Young.  They were three weeks in making the trip to St. George in a wagon 
pulled by a yoke of oxen.

When she was 17 years old she was married to Ute Warren Perkins.  They were 
the parents of 13 children, Eva, Ute V., LuEmma, Joe, Pearl, John, George, 
Mary V., Fay, Ralph, Clara, Sadie and Vivian Perkins. In 1882 they moved to 
Moapa which at that time was swamp-land from St. Thomas to Logandale.

There were only two white women living in Overton, one in Logandale, and one 
in St. Thomas.  There were frequent encounters with the Piute Indians living 
in the area, according to stories she told.

In 1903 her husband died and she was left to care for several small children, 
living as a real pioneer of the area.  She was prominent in the work of the 
L.D.S. Relief society.

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