She later married a young lawyer, Blackburn Hughes, in the late 1870's and continued to live at her home in Martinsburg until her death in 1879. She delivered several stillborn children and then succumbed to her own death during childbirth. Her last child died during childbirth as well. She lived only 17 years after John Pelham died. That was a lot of grief for a young woman.
Sources:
[1]"THEY LIE FORGOTTEN," by Mary Elizabeth Sergent.
[2]U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index about Sarah Hughes
She later married a young lawyer, Blackburn Hughes, in the late 1870's and continued to live at her home in Martinsburg until her death in 1879. She delivered several stillborn children and then succumbed to her own death during childbirth. Her last child died during childbirth as well. She lived only 17 years after John Pelham died. That was a lot of grief for a young woman.
Sources:
[1]"THEY LIE FORGOTTEN," by Mary Elizabeth Sergent.
[2]U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index about Sarah Hughes
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