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Sabrina Samantha <I>Orcutt</I> Modrell

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Sabrina Samantha Orcutt Modrell

Birth
Gibson County, Indiana, USA
Death
1 Oct 1909 (aged 91)
Rock Creek, Baker County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Haines, Baker County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 23, Roe B, Sp 8
Memorial ID
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Children - Lydia Marie Modrell Ingle, Martha Samantha Modrell Lingo, Mary Elizabeth Modrell Moore, George Washington Modrell, Rebecca Ellen Modrell Lefors, Robert Luther Modrell, Jackson Carl ModrellSabrina is buried in an unmarked grave in Lot 23, Row B, Space 8, between Carlus Leamaster and Geneva Willis Wright. Sabrina was born in 1818 to Lydia White Orcutt and an Orcutt father whose name is undetermined at this point. By the 1820 census of Gibson County, Indiana, Sabrina's mom, "Liddy Orket", was a single adult with 3 children (Sabrina and her older brother Luther and an older sister, name unknown). Sabrina's mother shortly married Dr. Mitchell Minnis and they raised the sister, Luther, Sabrina and new Minnis siblings Edward, David, Lucinda, Diannah and Mary in Gibson County,Indiana and Wabash County, Illinois. They were very religious and spent a lot of time at tent revivals around Mount Carmel and Salem and lots of time with their White family cousins who had all come West from New York around 1815 together. Sabrina always claimed to be the first cousin of Abraham Lincoln and they certainly lived in the same vicinity and were the same ages. Sabrina married John Modrell (who had homesteaded in Clay County, Illinois) in Salem, Illinois in 1839 and they headed out to the frontier of Benton County, Arkansas shortly after that. They had 7 children: Lydia Marie (married Reason Ingle),Martha Samantha (married S.J. Lingo), Mary Elizabeth (married Slater Moore), George Washington (married Christina Garrett), Rebecca Ellen (married Campbell LeFors),Robert Luther (married Alice/Alcie Smotherman), Jackson Carl (Phebe Ellen Onstott) and farmed their homestead in Double Springs Arkansas until the Civil War came to their home at the Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862. John and Sabrina took their children to the Stockade at Fayetteville for safety, but while there John got sick from drinking "poisoned" water and died, as did his daughter Lydia and her husband. Sabrina stayed in the stockade until the war was over then headed out to her family in Illinois, riding a scout horse ahead of her children who were following in a wagon driven by oldest son George. She briefly married a man in Illinois, Josiah Wheatley, but had left him by 1870, went to Arkansas to sell her homestead there and headed west to Oregon by oxen train with her family. She lived in WA and OR for many years but did travel back to Indian Territory in OK to participate in the Cherokee Strip Run. She was living in OK in the 1900 census but made another trip out to Oregon and was living with her son Jackson Carl when she died at Rock Creek. According to Viola Perkins, the cemetery historian in Haines, Sabrina was so well respected by the Leamaster family that they offered to bury her in their family plot overlooking the Blue Mountains. She was a strong and brave pioneer of the wild west who lived an amazing life during the early days of our country.
Children - Lydia Marie Modrell Ingle, Martha Samantha Modrell Lingo, Mary Elizabeth Modrell Moore, George Washington Modrell, Rebecca Ellen Modrell Lefors, Robert Luther Modrell, Jackson Carl ModrellSabrina is buried in an unmarked grave in Lot 23, Row B, Space 8, between Carlus Leamaster and Geneva Willis Wright. Sabrina was born in 1818 to Lydia White Orcutt and an Orcutt father whose name is undetermined at this point. By the 1820 census of Gibson County, Indiana, Sabrina's mom, "Liddy Orket", was a single adult with 3 children (Sabrina and her older brother Luther and an older sister, name unknown). Sabrina's mother shortly married Dr. Mitchell Minnis and they raised the sister, Luther, Sabrina and new Minnis siblings Edward, David, Lucinda, Diannah and Mary in Gibson County,Indiana and Wabash County, Illinois. They were very religious and spent a lot of time at tent revivals around Mount Carmel and Salem and lots of time with their White family cousins who had all come West from New York around 1815 together. Sabrina always claimed to be the first cousin of Abraham Lincoln and they certainly lived in the same vicinity and were the same ages. Sabrina married John Modrell (who had homesteaded in Clay County, Illinois) in Salem, Illinois in 1839 and they headed out to the frontier of Benton County, Arkansas shortly after that. They had 7 children: Lydia Marie (married Reason Ingle),Martha Samantha (married S.J. Lingo), Mary Elizabeth (married Slater Moore), George Washington (married Christina Garrett), Rebecca Ellen (married Campbell LeFors),Robert Luther (married Alice/Alcie Smotherman), Jackson Carl (Phebe Ellen Onstott) and farmed their homestead in Double Springs Arkansas until the Civil War came to their home at the Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862. John and Sabrina took their children to the Stockade at Fayetteville for safety, but while there John got sick from drinking "poisoned" water and died, as did his daughter Lydia and her husband. Sabrina stayed in the stockade until the war was over then headed out to her family in Illinois, riding a scout horse ahead of her children who were following in a wagon driven by oldest son George. She briefly married a man in Illinois, Josiah Wheatley, but had left him by 1870, went to Arkansas to sell her homestead there and headed west to Oregon by oxen train with her family. She lived in WA and OR for many years but did travel back to Indian Territory in OK to participate in the Cherokee Strip Run. She was living in OK in the 1900 census but made another trip out to Oregon and was living with her son Jackson Carl when she died at Rock Creek. According to Viola Perkins, the cemetery historian in Haines, Sabrina was so well respected by the Leamaster family that they offered to bury her in their family plot overlooking the Blue Mountains. She was a strong and brave pioneer of the wild west who lived an amazing life during the early days of our country.


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