Wife of Jacob Brown, the tailor and later Sexton of his beloved Church. Sarah Ziegler Brown and Jacob had five children who made the US Census listings at one time or another. Dear little Lucy (Lucinda) died of measles at almost three years old. The daughter born after Lucinda was Anna Elizabeth Brown, my 2nd great grandmother.
My father lived with his parents and his mother Claire's grandmother, Annie E. Strausbaugh (nee Brown) and he remembered Annie E. and many of her conversations. One thing he shared with me years back was that Annie E. was very protective of her two children (both by William Miller, her first marriage). One of the reasons is that she herself lost her sister, Lucy, shortly before she was born and remembered the enduring grief and sadness of her mother Sarah Ziegler Brown. My father recalled Annie E. sharing how sad her mother was for her lost children. He never knew who or how many, but the story of grief saddened me; when I became a mother, I really understood much better.
According to the HISTORY OF YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Sarah and Jacob had a young daughter Mary Jane (not Lucinda) who died while young and twins who died as infants. At this time I have found no records of such but even if the history book mistook Lucy for Mary Jane, Sarah also lost twins. That means she lost three or four children she certainly loved.
Although he outlived her, Sarah saw her only son off to war. He returned, but was injured to a degree that at some point he could not work and applied and was granted a peddler's license. She was worried for him everyday while at war and probably when he returned. He married later in life to a Civil War nurse and appears to have had no children.
Sarah Ziegler did have grandchildren by her daughters Caroline, Fannie and Annie E. before she died in 1877. They lived in York close by and my guess is they were a great joy to Sarah Ziegler Brown as were her four children who outlived her.
From the York Daily, Friday, Dec. 7, 1877 Notice of death of Mrs. Sarah Brown. "Yesterday afternoon, at her late resideence, No. 15 south Duke street, Mrs. Sarah, wife of Jacob Brown, aged about 63 years."
My father lived with his parents and his mother Claire's grandmother, Annie E. Strausbaugh (nee Brown) and he remembered Annie E. and many of her conversations. One thing he shared with me years back was that Annie E. was very protective of her two children (both by William Miller, her first marriage). One of the reasons is that she herself lost her sister, Lucy, shortly before she was born and remembered the enduring grief and sadness of her mother Sarah Ziegler Brown. My father recalled Annie E. sharing how sad her mother was for her lost children. He never knew who or how many, but the story of grief saddened me; when I became a mother, I really understood much better.
According to the HISTORY OF YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Sarah and Jacob had a young daughter Mary Jane (not Lucinda) who died while young and twins who died as infants. At this time I have found no records of such but even if the history book mistook Lucy for Mary Jane, Sarah also lost twins. That means she lost three or four children she certainly loved.
Although he outlived her, Sarah saw her only son off to war. He returned, but was injured to a degree that at some point he could not work and applied and was granted a peddler's license. She was worried for him everyday while at war and probably when he returned. He married later in life to a Civil War nurse and appears to have had no children.
Sarah Ziegler did have grandchildren by her daughters Caroline, Fannie and Annie E. before she died in 1877. They lived in York close by and my guess is they were a great joy to Sarah Ziegler Brown as were her four children who outlived her.
From the York Daily, Friday, Dec. 7, 1877 Notice of death of Mrs. Sarah Brown. "Yesterday afternoon, at her late resideence, No. 15 south Duke street, Mrs. Sarah, wife of Jacob Brown, aged about 63 years."
Wife of Jacob Brown, the tailor and later Sexton of his beloved Church. Sarah Ziegler Brown and Jacob had five children who made the US Census listings at one time or another. Dear little Lucy (Lucinda) died of measles at almost three years old. The daughter born after Lucinda was Anna Elizabeth Brown, my 2nd great grandmother.
My father lived with his parents and his mother Claire's grandmother, Annie E. Strausbaugh (nee Brown) and he remembered Annie E. and many of her conversations. One thing he shared with me years back was that Annie E. was very protective of her two children (both by William Miller, her first marriage). One of the reasons is that she herself lost her sister, Lucy, shortly before she was born and remembered the enduring grief and sadness of her mother Sarah Ziegler Brown. My father recalled Annie E. sharing how sad her mother was for her lost children. He never knew who or how many, but the story of grief saddened me; when I became a mother, I really understood much better.
According to the HISTORY OF YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Sarah and Jacob had a young daughter Mary Jane (not Lucinda) who died while young and twins who died as infants. At this time I have found no records of such but even if the history book mistook Lucy for Mary Jane, Sarah also lost twins. That means she lost three or four children she certainly loved.
Although he outlived her, Sarah saw her only son off to war. He returned, but was injured to a degree that at some point he could not work and applied and was granted a peddler's license. She was worried for him everyday while at war and probably when he returned. He married later in life to a Civil War nurse and appears to have had no children.
Sarah Ziegler did have grandchildren by her daughters Caroline, Fannie and Annie E. before she died in 1877. They lived in York close by and my guess is they were a great joy to Sarah Ziegler Brown as were her four children who outlived her.
From the York Daily, Friday, Dec. 7, 1877 Notice of death of Mrs. Sarah Brown. "Yesterday afternoon, at her late resideence, No. 15 south Duke street, Mrs. Sarah, wife of Jacob Brown, aged about 63 years."
My father lived with his parents and his mother Claire's grandmother, Annie E. Strausbaugh (nee Brown) and he remembered Annie E. and many of her conversations. One thing he shared with me years back was that Annie E. was very protective of her two children (both by William Miller, her first marriage). One of the reasons is that she herself lost her sister, Lucy, shortly before she was born and remembered the enduring grief and sadness of her mother Sarah Ziegler Brown. My father recalled Annie E. sharing how sad her mother was for her lost children. He never knew who or how many, but the story of grief saddened me; when I became a mother, I really understood much better.
According to the HISTORY OF YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Sarah and Jacob had a young daughter Mary Jane (not Lucinda) who died while young and twins who died as infants. At this time I have found no records of such but even if the history book mistook Lucy for Mary Jane, Sarah also lost twins. That means she lost three or four children she certainly loved.
Although he outlived her, Sarah saw her only son off to war. He returned, but was injured to a degree that at some point he could not work and applied and was granted a peddler's license. She was worried for him everyday while at war and probably when he returned. He married later in life to a Civil War nurse and appears to have had no children.
Sarah Ziegler did have grandchildren by her daughters Caroline, Fannie and Annie E. before she died in 1877. They lived in York close by and my guess is they were a great joy to Sarah Ziegler Brown as were her four children who outlived her.
From the York Daily, Friday, Dec. 7, 1877 Notice of death of Mrs. Sarah Brown. "Yesterday afternoon, at her late resideence, No. 15 south Duke street, Mrs. Sarah, wife of Jacob Brown, aged about 63 years."
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