Sarahýs Diary

About the Book

Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hall Pulliam was a farm girl with a solid pioneer heritage. Her maternal grandparents settled on the western frontier of Missouri during the early 1800s, her father died as a "Forty-Niner" in California, and several of his family emigrated to the West Coast in the mid-1800s. After bearing nine children and moving between Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Kansas, Sarah was no stranger to hardship, but even these experience could not prepare her for what lay ahead as she started on her overland journey westward at the age of forty-six. Sarah's Diary is much more than the story of one family as told by one individual it is the story of the courage, spirit, determination, and integrity that established the foundation of our nation.

About the Author

Georgia Ann James Parson is Lizzie?s Great-granddaughter. Georgia, at the urging of her son Ron, has transcribed this manuscript as a labor of love. Georgia, herself a remarkable woman, worked for the State Department in Paris in the 1950?s, worked for the USO during the Korean War, lived in Amsterdam and Antwerp for seventeen years as an expatriate, raised a son who is a now retired Navy Commander, taught high school dramatics and ran a family resort at Lake Tahoe. Since retiring in 1991, she and her husband of fifty-three year, Henk, have traveled the country and the world volunteering over one hundred thousand hours each with the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Army Corps of Engineers.