Sarah Hancock Beesley: A Pioneer Wife and Remembrancer of the Handcart Saints

Sarah Hancock Beesley, the wife of Ebenezer Beesley, was a faithful Latter-day Saint pioneer whose reminiscences help preserve the memory of the handcart Saints and the hard westward journey. Her own record, preserved among the 'Handcart Stories,' and the testimony of her descendants remember her as one of the pioneer women who, with their husbands, gave up the comforts of their homelands to gather to Zion. Sister Beesley's life is a faith-promoting witness of the pioneer wives whose faith and endurance—and whose written records—have kept the story of the gathering alive for the rising generation.