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The next known history of John is that of his marriage.  At age 23, John Olorenshaw married Sarah Ann Eliza Moore, age 16, on 19 December 1888, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.  They were married by George D. Pyper with Sarah Olorenshaw and his sister Janie Renshaw as witnesses.[c]

Marriage License of John & Sarah Ann Eliza Moore Olorenshaw

John and Sarah Ann were the parents of 4 children, 3 sons and 1 daughter; Louis Timothy, Ella Lillian, John Melvin and Ralph Stanley.

Sarah Ann Eliza Moore was brought over from Switzerland to Salt Lake City, Utah as a very young child by two LDS missionaries according to a family story.  No one knows anything concerning the parents or family she came from or even what her given name was, if any.  From the information available, it would seem that she possibly came from a place called Niederscherli, Bern, Switzerland with a birth date of 23 June 1872.  This information has been passed down from one generation to the next by word of mouth through the years and is now unverifiable.  The missionaries gave Sarah to a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  He, in turn, placed her with a family in his congregation named Moore, the father being William Moore and the mother, Sarah Thompson.  A thorough search of state and local records, by me, would indicate that she may have never been adopted, although she was named with their last name, Moore, and was raised by them.[d]