Very nice tribute to Gr Gr Grandfather Samuel J Adair below submitted by Norma J. Entrekin Source: Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude; Volume III; International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers; Copyright 1998; ISBN 0-9658406-1-1; page 1862 - 1863: Heading "Sarah Mary Chestnut Slade Foy Trulock Malan"Name: Sarah Mary Chestnut
Birthdate: about 1845
Death: 24 Jul 1886
Parents: William A. Chestnut, Joanna Chestnut
Pioneer: Not given (Norma's note: this means the Co. they crossed the plains in)
Spouse #1 Jefferson Slade
Married 20 Nov 1860
Death SP: 28 Dec 1915, Eagar, Apache Co. Az (Norma's home)1 child
Spouse #2 John Moroni Foy
Married: 13 Dec 1862 Salt Lake Endowment House, Utah
Death SP: 2 5 Dec 1900No children
Spouse #3 Dr Aquilla Trulock
Married: Nov 1865
Death SP: not given2 children
Spouse #4 Stephen Malen
Married 20 Dec 1869
Logan, Cache Co. Utah
Death SP: 15 Aug 19266 children
"Sarah Mary was born about 1845. When she was about five years old, traveling west with her parents and sister, Ann Catherine age eight, and brother, Alfred age two, their parents were murdered by two men that her father had hired as teamsters to take them west.
The three children were spared but the cruel men tied them to a cow and sent it on its way. At this time they were outside Echo Canyon. The confused cow and the frightened children were left to wander until they were rescued by Samuel Jefferson Adair, widower of (sic) eight children, also on his way to Zion. Being shocked and amazed when he found them, he released them from the cow, took them in his arms and did his best to comfort the distraught children. He brought them on to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving on September 21, 1848.
When they arrived, the Chestnut children recognized that fine wagon that belonged to their parents. They started to shout, but were quickly silenced when two rough men told Samuel to shut them up or they would be shut up for good. The men were soon gone and the children remained with Samuel as he raised them as his own.
They moved south to Payson and then on to Manti. Then Brigham Young sent Samuel to Washington County to grow cotton. They arrived on April 15, 1857, first settling at Adair Springs and then Pine Valley.
Sarah Mary went to live with Bishop and Sister Bingham in Riverdale, Utah.
She was living there, when at the age of fifteen, she married Jefferson Slade. By the time their first child was born the couple had been separated, possibly over polygamy. After some time passed, she reconciled with Jefferson, but he would have no part of it. She left without telling Jefferson that she was pregnant.
She later married John Moroni Foy in the Salt Lake Endowment House on Dec 13 1862. Her son was eight months old at the time. The marriage lasted only two years and there were no children.
On January 13, 1868, Sarah Mary married Dr. Aquilla Trulock. Shortly after the birth of their second child, Dr. Trulock passed away.
On December 1869, in the Logan Temple, Sarah married Stephen Malan. They became the parents of six children. Three years after the birth of their last child, Sarah Mary passed way at the age forty one."
Norma's notes: If this is correct, by the time she was 24 years old, she had been married 4 times! Also, she must have believed in Polygamy, and wanted her first husband, Slade, to take another wife. Her sister, Ann Catherine eventually married Samuel J. Adair's son, George W. Adair, my Gr Grandfather. They had two children and then she died, having the second one. Then, he married my Gr Grandmother, Emily P. Tyler.