Caroline Augusta JACKSON

The many friends of Sister Caroline Augusta JACKSON, of St. George, will be  pained to learn of her death, which occurred at half-past seven o'clock this morning, Dec. 7th, in that city, of pneumonia. Sister Jackson was born at Hampton, N. H. and was aged 50 years 4months and 23 days. She embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ at the age of 17 years, leaving her father's house as the cost, and in February, 1864, embarked upon the ship Brooklyn, with her husband and infant daughter, arriving in California six months later, to endure the terrors of war and famine for many mouths. Enriched by the gold discovery, she gave liberally to the poor, and kept for twenty years open house for the traveling Elders of the Church. She collected sixty children, made orphans by cholera and bore their entire expenses for  six months, meanwhile exerting her influence successfully toward the foundation of the still existing Protestant Orphan Asylum in San Francisco and was one of the first board of managers. Circumstances beyond her control prevented her joining the Saints in Utah until ten years ago, when she made St. George her home, bearing, in loving spirit, many privations incident to a pioneer life and cheerfully responding to any can call of the church. Only one month and a week ago her husband Col. Alden A.M. Jackson, passed before her to his rest and reward.  Two daughters remain to love and honor her memory. Beloved most by those who knew her best,  she will be remembered as having been faithful  belong to the end, which end is sleep, and the awaking life eternal. A. J. C.

[Desert News, Salt Lake City, Sat. Dec. 9, 1876 - Transcribed by Candi H.]