Mr. Ricks married second, Oct. 26, 1852, Sarah Beriah Fisk, born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Sept. 1, 1819, widow of Ezra Allen, and daughter of Varnum and Sally (Eams) Fisk.  She was descended from an early Massachusetts family, and her pedigree follows, viz., Sarah Beriah Fisk, Varnum, Daniel, Josiah, Nathan, Nathan, Nathaniel, William, Robert, Simon, Simon, William, Symon.

During her girlhood she attended the public schools and obtained the rudiments of an education.  While in her teens, she married Ezra Allen and shortly afterwards the couple became converts to Mormonism.  They removed from New York state to Nauvoo in 1842, and were participants in the events of those trying times, until the exodus came in 1846.  They moved west with the general body of the "Saints" to the Missouri River, and were there when the call came from the general government for 500 men for the Mexican War.  Mr. Allen enlisted and left his wife and children in the wilderness to the care of her friends.  Mr. Allen was returning from California with other disbanded members of the "Mormon Battalion" when the company became lost in the mountains, and Mr. Allen with two others went ahead to explore the road, and were killed by Indians on the night of June 27, 1849.  A little bag of California gold that he carried on his person was recovered and is now in possession of the family.

The widow remained on the Missouri until the spring of 1851, when she yoked up her oxen and her cows and turned her face resolutely to the western wilderness, determined to cast her lot with her friends in the new Zion.  The long journey was hard enough for a strong man, but for a frail woman with four small children must have been a trying one. To add to the horrors, cholera broke out in the company and two of her children were laid away by the roadside.  She reached Utah in October and was given a home in the family of Mr. Ricks, whom she married as previously mentioned.  Her home was in Farmington, Utah, with the exception of the time spent on the second exodus until July 1859, when she moved to Cache Valley, where she continued to live to the time of her death.  She was a devoted Latter Day Saint, and was for many years an active worker in the Church and held a number of prominent positions in Church organization.

She possessed a poetic nature, and wrote a number of commendable poems for local papers.  She was a little frail woman, and one wonders how she could bear up under the great trials she had to endure in coming alone to a new country and helping to subdue a wilderness.  A daughter by Mr. Allen, Amorette Allen, married Lewis Ricks, son of her second husband.