SARAH RACHEL STEWART was born in 1833 in Pine City, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of David Stewart and Martha (Lassiter) Stewart. She married Jacob J. Benshoof (1826-1910) on April 1, 1852. She died only a year later in 1853, in childbirth. The child, an unnamed daughter, also died and they were both buried in the Levergood Family Cemetery (also called the Lutheran Cemetery) on Vine Street in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Her husband, Jacob J. Benshoof, married her younger sister, Lucinda, and they moved to Blue Grass, Scott County, Iowa, where they lived for the rest of their lives, raising a large family. When the Johnstown Flood of 1889 wiped out that town, including the Levergood Family Cemetery, the Levergood heirs (which included Sarah’s husband, Jacob Benshoof) decided to sell the land, requiring that the bodies interred there be removed. Jacob’s brother, Peter L. Benshoof, on a visit to Johnstown shortly after the flood, wrote this on November 19, 1890, about the graveyard: “…the stones are Standing…the head stone of Sarah’s grave is broken in two just below the letters. I got a shovel and set the broken part in beside the part that was in the ground but it was leaning…the child’s head stone was standing all right….” A few month’s later, Jacob’s first cousin, Sarah (Levergood) Caldwell, still living in Johnstown, wrote to Jacob on February 19, 1891: “…if you want to have your wife and child moved they could be laid in our empty grave. They charge three dollars for digging a grave, so that would be six dollars, and then a box to put in the bones, and taking it up to the cemetery….” Jacob, still living in Iowa, finally had the remains of Sarah and their daughter reinterred in Grandview Cemetery, in the plot owned by his first cousin, Sarah (Levergood) Caldwell, on November 10, 1891, but without a grave marker for them.