Sarah emigrated from her home in County Monaghan when she was about 17, with her mother Mary Cassidy, her 18-year-old sister Katherine, her 14-year-old brother Frank, and 11-year-old brother, Joe. (It seems that her parents and older siblings had come over earlier and her mother returned to Ireland to escort her youngest children on the ship to their new home.) When she was 26, Sarah was working as a servant in the home of 71-year-old Emily Hoyt. And this is probably where she met her future husband, since Neil Cassidy was at that time the driver in a Hoyt household. They married in 1903 and, by 1908, had their two children, a boy and a girl. Sarah was a left a widow a week before Christmas at age 49 when her husband suffered a cerebral hemmorhage while walking down the street to visit a nearby relative. Although her husband didn't live to see it, Sarah was able to proudly watch her daughter graduate not only from high school but teacher's college as well. Being from Northern Ireland, Sarah spoke with a British-type accent rather than a brogue. What she was like when she was young is unknown but she was apparently more of the serious and stern rather than warm and cuddly type of grandmother. But she was loved and cared for. After being stricken with cancer in her 60s, she moved in with the family of her daughter, Frances Trefry, where each day until she died, her son-in-law Rowley would carry 'Nanny' out to the couch so she could spend time around her family and grandchildren.
Sarah emigrated from her home in County Monaghan when she was about 17, with her mother Mary Cassidy, her 18-year-old sister Katherine, her 14-year-old brother Frank, and 11-year-old brother, Joe. (It seems that her parents and older siblings had come over earlier and her mother returned to Ireland to escort her youngest children on the ship to their new home.) When she was 26, Sarah was working as a servant in the home of 71-year-old Emily Hoyt. And this is probably where she met her future husband, since Neil Cassidy was at that time the driver in a Hoyt household. They married in 1903 and, by 1908, had their two children, a boy and a girl. Sarah was a left a widow a week before Christmas at age 49 when her husband suffered a cerebral hemmorhage while walking down the street to visit a nearby relative. Although her husband didn't live to see it, Sarah was able to proudly watch her daughter graduate not only from high school but teacher's college as well. Being from Northern Ireland, Sarah spoke with a British-type accent rather than a brogue. What she was like when she was young is unknown but she was apparently more of the serious and stern rather than warm and cuddly type of grandmother. But she was loved and cared for. After being stricken with cancer in her 60s, she moved in with the family of her daughter, Frances Trefry, where each day until she died, her son-in-law Rowley would carry 'Nanny' out to the couch so she could spend time around her family and grandchildren.
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