Sarah Louise Jensen was the third child of James Fredrick Jensen and Alice Ann
Durney. Her father was born in Judram, Albury, Denmark. Her mother was born
in Grantsville, Utah. When her mother was a small child she walked from Grantsville
to Richmond barefooted because she could not afford shoes.
Her father worked on the railroad helping to lay track in Montana. He died quite
suddenly and was buried in the snow 6 April 1880 in Montana. His body was later
taken up and buried in Weston, Idaho.
Her mother worked for several years in Montana cooking for railroad crews. Later she worked in Ogden, Utah in a bookstore where she became acquainted with Joseph Alfred Carswell, whom she later married.
Her mother was a practical nurse and she went to many homes with doctors to care for the sick. She also delivered many babies into the world without assistance.
Sarah Louise was born in Dayton, Idaho 28 September 1878. She was the third child. An older sister, also given the name Sarah Louise, died as an infant. It was a custom then to give the next child of the same sex the same name as the child who had died. She had one brother, Charles Fredrick.
Her father died when she was two years old and her mother had to go to work so Sarah went to live with her Grandmother, Sarah Durney, in Richmond, Utah. She loved the out-of-doors and would rather help with the milking and outside chores than to be in.
When she became a young lady, she pent much of her time with Joannah Whitehead, her aunt, her mother’s sister, who was a dressmaker. She worked for her helping to keep house while her aunt sewed.
It was here that she met and fell in love with Aaron James Chatterton. They were married 20 October 1897 in the Logan temple, Logan Utah.
Their first home was a two room house built by Aaron’s father in Cherryville, a small farming community, east of Franklin. Their first furniture was all hand made. Later on as the family grew, two more rooms were added to the home. She gave birth to seven children, 4 boys and 3 girls. Two boys died in infancy.
When her family responsibility ceased to keep her tied to her home, she spent much of her time helping her husband with the farm work, plowing, cutting hay, hauling grain and doing any of the farm work which she was able to do.
When she was first married she spent many happy hours with her sister-in-law, Laura Chatterton, the wife of her husband’s brother Arthur. They lived quite close together and used to hitch the horses to the wagon or buggy, gather their children together and call on each other.
Mrs. Sarah Chatterton, about 60, of Preston, Idaho, cook at the Weber county
infirmary, was killed instantly at about ten a.m. today when she was struck
by a Bamberger train at the Roy crossing, according to Joseph W. Child, coroner,
and George W. Weatherston, deputy sheriff, who investigated.
The accident was witnessed by Leonard Cowlishaw and Mrs. Artha Hadley, patients
at the infirmary. They told officers they and Mrs. Chatterton were waiting at
the Roy station for the local into Ogden. Mrs. Chatterton reportedly walked
across the tracks to talk with a woman seated in an automobile.
Witnesses said a fast train approached, and blew its whistle. Mrs. Chatterton,
apparently thinking it was the local, turned from the car and rushed into its
path.
The victim was carried approximately 120 feet along the track and thrown into
a barrow pit on the east side.
Coroner Child said no inquest would be necessary, as he regarded the accident
as unavoidable.
Among the survivors are a son, Milo Chatterton, of Lovell, Wyo., and a daughter,
Mrs. Byington of Preston, Idaho, who is coming to Ogden tonight. The body is
at the mortuary, 466 Twenty-fourth.