About 8 October 1928
Sarah Cracroft Debenham
Funeral services for Sarah Cracroft Debenham, 82, who died Sunday, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Fourth ward chap-el. Burial will be in the City cemetery.
Mrs. Debenham, who was one of Utah's early pioneers, is sur-vived by three daugh-ters, Mrs. Henrietta Williams. Mrs. Alice Evans, both of Salt Lake, and Mrs. Lucy Fowler, McGill, Nev. Fourteen grandchil-dren and eight great--grandchildren also survive.
Sarah told her granddaughter Gaylia Agnes Bueter that Sarah’s father Thomas John Cracroft sent her to the United States from England by herself, and told her to go directly to Brigham Young. She arrived in New York on 6 June 1866 and she came across the plains with the Thomas E. Ricks wagon company. She cooked for Brigham Young.