Sarah Plaskett Honored as Pioneer Mother at 1915 Exposition

Sarah M. Plaskett was one of the many pioneer mothers in whose honor the statue of “The Pioneer Mother” was erected at the San Francisco-Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler paid tribute to women like her, saying: “Over rude paths, beset by hunger and danger, she passed on to the vision of a better country. To an assemblage of men busied with the perishable rewards of the day, she brought the three-fold leaves of enduring society—faith, gentleness, and home, with the virtue of children.”