Sarah “Sary” Potts Asbell (1838-1894)

Sarah “Sary” Potts Asbell

Birth

Dec 1838

Pope County, Illinois, USA

Death

Sep 1894 (aged 55)

Pope County, Illinois, USA

Burial

Asbell Cemetery

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Sarah Potts Asbell - Great-great grandmother of Joseph Garvon Crabb, and born in Pope County, Illinois in 1838. Parents were Wheeler Potts and Elizabeth Tombs. Sarah married Mariel Mauld Asbell.

Family tradition relates that Sarah (on the left) was taken from the Cherokee as they passed through Pope County in December 1838 because her mother died in childbirth. Some family stories say the Potts family stole her from the Cherokees.

The woman on right is unknown. Sarah and Mariel are buried in the Asbell-Crabb-Hicks Cemetery in northeastern Pope County.

Submitted by Joe Crabb, Grantsburg, IL

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Mariel Asbell

1835–1883

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Mariel Asbell

Mary Etta Asbell Crabb

Frances Jane Asbell Holloman

Susan Asbell Collier

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Frances Jane Asbell Holloman

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