Sarah Ann Kuykendall came to Hunt County Texas with her parents at the age of nine. At the of age 14, she married John McBride.
Sarah always claimed to be schooled in only two books, the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, John joined a local company as a Captain and departed for the war. While located in Louisiana, John became ill and died and as was the necessity was buried in the field. At the end of the war Sarah determined to retrieve her husband's remains for reburial in Hunt County. Enjoining two young nephews she set out for Louisiana in a two-horse wagon, leaving her five children in the care of her mother saying, "I am going to John's grave and will never return without his body."
Returning home after a trip totaling 21 days she summoned her neighbors with the use of a hunting horn and prepared for John's funeral. He was interred in the Kuykendall Cemetery near Quinlan, Texas in Hunt County where she regularly placed flowers for the next 57 years until she was laid to rest next to him in 1922.
Sarah always claimed to be schooled in only two books, the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, John joined a local company as a Captain and departed for the war. While located in Louisiana, John became ill and died and as was the necessity was buried in the field. At the end of the war Sarah determined to retrieve her husband's remains for reburial in Hunt County. Enjoining two young nephews she set out for Louisiana in a two-horse wagon, leaving her five children in the care of her mother saying, "I am going to John's grave and will never return without his body."
Returning home after a trip totaling 21 days she summoned her neighbors with the use of a hunting horn and prepared for John's funeral. He was interred in the Kuykendall Cemetery near Quinlan, Texas in Hunt County where she regularly placed flowers for the next 57 years until she was laid to rest next to him in 1922.
Sarah Ann Kuykendall came to Hunt County Texas with her parents at the age of nine. At the of age 14, she married John McBride.
Sarah always claimed to be schooled in only two books, the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, John joined a local company as a Captain and departed for the war. While located in Louisiana, John became ill and died and as was the necessity was buried in the field. At the end of the war Sarah determined to retrieve her husband's remains for reburial in Hunt County. Enjoining two young nephews she set out for Louisiana in a two-horse wagon, leaving her five children in the care of her mother saying, "I am going to John's grave and will never return without his body."
Returning home after a trip totaling 21 days she summoned her neighbors with the use of a hunting horn and prepared for John's funeral. He was interred in the Kuykendall Cemetery near Quinlan, Texas in Hunt County where she regularly placed flowers for the next 57 years until she was laid to rest next to him in 1922.
Sarah always claimed to be schooled in only two books, the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, John joined a local company as a Captain and departed for the war. While located in Louisiana, John became ill and died and as was the necessity was buried in the field. At the end of the war Sarah determined to retrieve her husband's remains for reburial in Hunt County. Enjoining two young nephews she set out for Louisiana in a two-horse wagon, leaving her five children in the care of her mother saying, "I am going to John's grave and will never return without his body."
Returning home after a trip totaling 21 days she summoned her neighbors with the use of a hunting horn and prepared for John's funeral. He was interred in the Kuykendall Cemetery near Quinlan, Texas in Hunt County where she regularly placed flowers for the next 57 years until she was laid to rest next to him in 1922.
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