Sarah Alice Clements

      Sarah Alice Clements was known as Alice. She was born on 17 April 1872 in Oxford, Oneida County, Idaho. She was the daughter of James Edward Clements and Sarah Alice Beebe. As a teenager, Alice was hired by Jonas Larsson to help care for his ailing wife. There she met his son John. She married John Peter Larson, son of Jonas Olof Larsson and Margaret Olson, on 1 August 1890 in Aurora, Sevier County, Utah. She and John Peter Larson lived in Aurora, Utah, until 1903 when they immigrated to Raymond, Alberta.

In 1903 Alice and John moved to Canada where they lived on a farm about 10 miles north of Raymond, Alberta. Alice was a very good cook, baking many fruit pies and preserving a lot of food as well as making her own butter. She made the children's clothes and planted a garden yearly. Alice and John were both kind and compassionate people. They would often stop at the home of a widow who took in laundry to support herself to share their food supplies. Alice had a trademark well remembered by her granddaughter Janice Shaw - she always wore a clean white apron. On special occasions she wore her valued silver pin with ALICE on it, given to her by John. Her hair was pulled back in a bun, her appearance always neat and tidy. Alice lived with her elder daughter Ethel after John passed away. She died on 15 August 1957 in Raymond, Alberta, at age 85. She was buried in Temple Hill Cemetery, Raymond, Alberta.