Sarah Althea Hill was the daughter of Samuel Hill and Julia Sloan. Sarah was named after both of her grandmothers, Sarah Sloan and Althea Hill. She is also the sister of, Hiram Morgan Hill, who the town of Morgan Hill, California is named after. She was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and passed away in Stockton, California.
She was the second wife of (Justice)David Smith Terry, to whom she married on January 7,1886. At the time of their marriage, David Terry was sixty-three years and Sarah was only thirty-six; a twenty-seven year age difference. Sarah had originally hired Terry to serve as her lawyer in her lengthy case against ex-Senator William Sharon in which she claimed Sharon was her husband by contract and wanted a divorce and alimony.
No children were born to the Terry's. Husband, David, was killed, or murdered depending on how you look at it, in 1889 at the age of sixty-six. Sarah was admitted to Stockton's State Hospital for the Insane in 1892, where she would later pass away on Valentine's Day, 1937 at the age of 87.
She was the second wife of (Justice)David Smith Terry, to whom she married on January 7,1886. At the time of their marriage, David Terry was sixty-three years and Sarah was only thirty-six; a twenty-seven year age difference. Sarah had originally hired Terry to serve as her lawyer in her lengthy case against ex-Senator William Sharon in which she claimed Sharon was her husband by contract and wanted a divorce and alimony.
No children were born to the Terry's. Husband, David, was killed, or murdered depending on how you look at it, in 1889 at the age of sixty-six. Sarah was admitted to Stockton's State Hospital for the Insane in 1892, where she would later pass away on Valentine's Day, 1937 at the age of 87.
Sarah Althea Hill was the daughter of Samuel Hill and Julia Sloan. Sarah was named after both of her grandmothers, Sarah Sloan and Althea Hill. She is also the sister of, Hiram Morgan Hill, who the town of Morgan Hill, California is named after. She was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and passed away in Stockton, California.
She was the second wife of (Justice)David Smith Terry, to whom she married on January 7,1886. At the time of their marriage, David Terry was sixty-three years and Sarah was only thirty-six; a twenty-seven year age difference. Sarah had originally hired Terry to serve as her lawyer in her lengthy case against ex-Senator William Sharon in which she claimed Sharon was her husband by contract and wanted a divorce and alimony.
No children were born to the Terry's. Husband, David, was killed, or murdered depending on how you look at it, in 1889 at the age of sixty-six. Sarah was admitted to Stockton's State Hospital for the Insane in 1892, where she would later pass away on Valentine's Day, 1937 at the age of 87.
She was the second wife of (Justice)David Smith Terry, to whom she married on January 7,1886. At the time of their marriage, David Terry was sixty-three years and Sarah was only thirty-six; a twenty-seven year age difference. Sarah had originally hired Terry to serve as her lawyer in her lengthy case against ex-Senator William Sharon in which she claimed Sharon was her husband by contract and wanted a divorce and alimony.
No children were born to the Terry's. Husband, David, was killed, or murdered depending on how you look at it, in 1889 at the age of sixty-six. Sarah was admitted to Stockton's State Hospital for the Insane in 1892, where she would later pass away on Valentine's Day, 1937 at the age of 87.
Inscription
"Aged 80 yrs"
Gravesite Details
Census records show Sarah as being born in January 1850 and would've been 87 years old at the time of her death. Her headstone reads 80 years old.
Family Members
Siblings
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
