Elias Cox and Mary Elvira Sherman Cox Family

Alvin and Sarah Cox Black

Wedding Photo

Saints leaving Mexico

Alvin Black and Sarah Elizabeth Cox Black headstone

Alvin Black Oct. 2, 1887-June 10, 1955 Sarah E. Black Mar. 12, 1888-June 13, 1992

(note: this photo was taken before the death of Sarah in 1992 and needs to be updated)

Sarah Elizabeth cuts her brothers hair

It was about this time when she took her younger brother, Frank, who was six years old and still had long hair, up to the mill where Alvin worked. (She could not stand the thought of having Frank start to school with long curls). Alvin cut Frank’s hair and she saved the curls for her mother. Her mother was very angry and some of her folks threatened to cut Sarah’s hair off. Her father intervened, so she kept her long, black hair.

Sarah Elizabeth Cox Black finds a gun for her uncle

Before they moved to the field, when she was about 7 or 8 years old, she said her uncle came by one day and wanted to borrow her father’s gun. Neither mother nor father were at home, but being like most children that are not supposed to know where things like that were, she got the gun for him. A bear had been into his sheep and he told her he would bring the bear back when he shot it to show her. She thought that would be great. So in a while he brought the gun back and also the bear. He told her that it took three men to hold the horse while he put the bear on it. When her parents came home, they really scolded her about the gun. She said she never did know where it was hidden after that.

Sarah Elizabeth Cox Black - Centenariam

CENTENARIAN

Sarah Elizabeth Cox Black was born Mar. 12 1888, to Elias Cox and Mary Elvira Sherman.

She attended school in Huntington, Utah, completing the sixth grade.  Here she was forced to drop out of school because of poor eyesight, but she never lost her thirst for knowledge.

On Apr. 25, 1907 she married Alvin Black in the Manti Temple.  There were 6 chidren born to this union, 4 of them still living.  Her hustband died 10 June 1955.

She learned to saddle and ride a horse, harness a team and drive the wagon.  Make cheese, make hom made soap.  She done the family wash on a washboard.  Made quilts and sewed her childrens clothing.  She saw the coming of the Automobile and the Airoplane.

She was post office mistress in Glendale for 16 years retiring at age 70.

One of her choice Chruch jobs was on the Stake Sunday School board for 7  years.

She now lives in Kanab with her daughter Marelda.

They lived in Bluebell, Castledale, Roosevelt, and Wellington before moving to Glendale, Utah.

Sarah Elizabeth Cox biography

Sarah Elizabeth Cox

born March 12, 1888 at Huntington, Emery, Utah

daughter of Elias Cox and Mary Elvira Sherman

died 13 June 1992 at Kanab, Kane, Utah

buried at the Glendale, Utah cemetery

Sarah was the fifth child born to Elias and Mary Elvira Cox. They had four boys. A little girl must have made them very happy. She was named Sarah Elizabeth for her father’s mother, and one of her mother’s sisters. She had five younger brothers and sisters. She also had a half-brother and sister much older, because her father and mother had both been previously married. Her father had a boy named Elias Henderson. Her mother had a girl named Mary Elvira.

When Sarah was small, her brother Elias gave her a little red rocking chair. He must have loved having a sister, as he had children of his own. Sarah loved rocking in the little rocker.