Sarah Emma, one of my paternal third great aunts, was not quite ten years old when her father returned from the West and packed up his whole family and moved with them to the Oregon Territory.*
[From the Barton/Cardwell/Chalmers/Babler/Fortier Family Tree
of Delby46 on Ancestry.com]
At 17 she married William H. Spencer:
[Ancestry.com. Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, 1700s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Oregon, Biographical and Other Cards. Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.]
Her only child was born two years later and died at 15 months:
[Ancestry.com. Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, 1700s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Oregon, Biographical and Other Cards. Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.]
Today I found Sarah Emma's 1868 obituary at Newspapers.com:
[30 May 1868, Page 3 - Corvallis Gazette-Times at Newspapers.com]
She's buried next to her son in the IOOF Cemetery in Corvallis, Oregon.
*She was just over three years older than her sister
Matilda "Puggie" (my great great grandmother).
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