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104.Sarah Adeline Butler Allen Tuttle!, gg grandmother, 2nd wife, pioneer midwife, stalwart!

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 My great grandmother Sarah Adeline Butler was born February 15, 1841, in Nauvoo, Illinois, and was blessed by the Prophet Joseph Smith.  Her parents John Lowe and Caroline Farozine Skeen Butler lived neighbors to the Prophet , and at the time of the martyrdom, her father was a  body-guard to the Prophet (told in blog # 66).   Blogs # 71 and 72 tell stories about his wife, Caroline.      After the martyrdom of the Prophet, John and his family, along with other saints were driven from Nauvoo.   She remembered her father with other men tying their shoes on their feet with heels to toes and walking that way in the snow so the enemy could not track them.      They settled on little Pigeon Creek, where she was baptized by her father when she turned 8 years old.  From there they moved to Council Bluffs.  Here she was cherished by a Sioux squaw who had lost her own little girl .   This story is told in  #71, in the Grandmother Squaw story . This friendly Indian lady helped them procure fo