Margaret Condie Sharp b 1839
By Herself, Autobiographical Sketch
[I,] "Margaret Condie Sharp, was baptized when eight years old in Scotland, the land of my birth, just before coming to America with my parents and brothers and sisters in 1849. We remained in St. Louis one year and then sojourned in Council Bluffs two years.
"Crossed the plains in 1852. Walked barefooted more than half the way. Our team consisted of a cow, an ox, and the wagon was made by my father. We [our family] arrived in S.L. City, Sept 8, 1852. We lived in a dugout the first year, and then I helped make the adobes to build us a house. Subsisted on roots, and fought grasshoppers during the famine of '53.
"I was married to Joseph Sharp in 1857, and was left a widow in 1864, since which time I have earned my own living and supported my family and also my dead sister's children, five in number. I have nursed the sick, doctored them, and acted as Accoucher [French for midwife].
"Was a member of the first organization of the Relief Society in the 20th Ward, also acted as teacher in the same organization for eleven years, as secretary 23 yrs until I moved from ward. Was also Coun. to Sister Toone in the Primary Association three or four years, and am now a worker in the Salt Lake Temple.
"When Father [Thomas Condie] lived in Scotland, he kept a large store."
Source: Genealogical Survey of LDS Members, Vol. 27, Sa-Sj, Pg 380.
SLC Family History Library
Note: Perused and proofread twice by MCBS.
Dates have been checked with PAF.
Source: Marjorie Cecilia Barker Sorensen