Sarah was born 9 years after the Civil War and was raised in a log cabin in the steep, poorly accessible Ozark hills of southwestern Missouri that is rich in rivers, beauty, and character building; the area is known as The Sinks, or Sinkin' Creek, in Shannon County. She was the 2nd of 5 daughters and farming and subsistence was their life. As of 8/2020 4 of the 5 sisters have been found on Findagrave - Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mamie. Nora has not yet been discovered.
She married James Scott Sutterfield, Jr on Dec. 23, 1903 - she bore 9 children - 1 set of twins were stillborn (Ruth & Earl) while they were living in St. Louis; she worked as a domestic while James worked as a Jefferson Guard for the 1904 STL Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Expedition). They returned to the Sutterfield Farm and Marvin was born, then Telcie 'Jewel' who at the age of 3+ years developed diptheria, and died on Nov 23. At that time, Sarah was pregnant with twins Rosa & Ruby who were born prematurely just 4 days after 'Jewel' died. Then twin Ruby died after only 13 days - such sorrow in the house after the loss of two sweet little girls, and they are buried along side each other. That left Marvin and Rosa for awhile, but over the next 7 yrs Woodrow, Rayburn and Leona were born. These 5 children survived and thrived in the beautiful ozark area of MO called West Fork while their industrous pioneer mother kept the family going on their rural Sutterfield farm since James was often away wherever he could find work.
Once she took the wildly extravagant action of hiring a neighbor to drive his flatbed truck to take her and the children 17 miles for a picnic and outing to The Sinks so her children could see the beautiful place where she grew up.
Later after the children were all gone, trouble developed in the marriage and she and James divorced and she left the farm. At some point, she met and married a widower, Mr. Louis Carney, and they lived together in a house in Bunker, MO until they could no longer care for each other, then he went to live with a daughter and she came to live with her daughter, Rosa and family in St. Louis where she had a basement bedroom. She loved being able to freeze water (in the modern invention called a freezer) in a plastic glass and would make slush - she loved icy drinks. One day on the way back from getting her semi frozen glass out of the chest freezer, she slipped and fell and broke her hip on the concrete floor, and while in the hospital, caught pneumonia and died.
In her years living with her daughter and family, her grandchildren enjoyed being around her, saw her reading her bible, listening to the radio, smoking her corncob pipe, and chatting with her 6 yr old grand-daughter, Verna, who would sit on the steps leading to her downstairs bedroom.
Her father was named after his father, her grandfather, William Thompson (1790-1860) b in Rutherford Cty, N.C - d in Shannon Cty, MO and grandmother, Martha 'Patsey' Beasley Thompson (1792- ?) b in Warren Cty, N.C. d unknown.
The Beasley lineage goes back to 1530 in Lancaster, England - discovered on ancestry.com on a family tree. Her grandparents on the Chilton side are John Chilton and Lydia 'Woods' Chilton.
She married James Scott Sutterfield, Jr on Dec. 23, 1903 - she bore 9 children - 1 set of twins were stillborn (Ruth & Earl) while they were living in St. Louis; she worked as a domestic while James worked as a Jefferson Guard for the 1904 STL Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Expedition). They returned to the Sutterfield Farm and Marvin was born, then Telcie 'Jewel' who at the age of 3+ years developed diptheria, and died on Nov 23. At that time, Sarah was pregnant with twins Rosa & Ruby who were born prematurely just 4 days after 'Jewel' died. Then twin Ruby died after only 13 days - such sorrow in the house after the loss of two sweet little girls, and they are buried along side each other. That left Marvin and Rosa for awhile, but over the next 7 yrs Woodrow, Rayburn and Leona were born. These 5 children survived and thrived in the beautiful ozark area of MO called West Fork while their industrous pioneer mother kept the family going on their rural Sutterfield farm since James was often away wherever he could find work.
Once she took the wildly extravagant action of hiring a neighbor to drive his flatbed truck to take her and the children 17 miles for a picnic and outing to The Sinks so her children could see the beautiful place where she grew up.
Later after the children were all gone, trouble developed in the marriage and she and James divorced and she left the farm. At some point, she met and married a widower, Mr. Louis Carney, and they lived together in a house in Bunker, MO until they could no longer care for each other, then he went to live with a daughter and she came to live with her daughter, Rosa and family in St. Louis where she had a basement bedroom. She loved being able to freeze water (in the modern invention called a freezer) in a plastic glass and would make slush - she loved icy drinks. One day on the way back from getting her semi frozen glass out of the chest freezer, she slipped and fell and broke her hip on the concrete floor, and while in the hospital, caught pneumonia and died.
In her years living with her daughter and family, her grandchildren enjoyed being around her, saw her reading her bible, listening to the radio, smoking her corncob pipe, and chatting with her 6 yr old grand-daughter, Verna, who would sit on the steps leading to her downstairs bedroom.
Her father was named after his father, her grandfather, William Thompson (1790-1860) b in Rutherford Cty, N.C - d in Shannon Cty, MO and grandmother, Martha 'Patsey' Beasley Thompson (1792- ?) b in Warren Cty, N.C. d unknown.
The Beasley lineage goes back to 1530 in Lancaster, England - discovered on ancestry.com on a family tree. Her grandparents on the Chilton side are John Chilton and Lydia 'Woods' Chilton.
Sarah was born 9 years after the Civil War and was raised in a log cabin in the steep, poorly accessible Ozark hills of southwestern Missouri that is rich in rivers, beauty, and character building; the area is known as The Sinks, or Sinkin' Creek, in Shannon County. She was the 2nd of 5 daughters and farming and subsistence was their life. As of 8/2020 4 of the 5 sisters have been found on Findagrave - Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mamie. Nora has not yet been discovered.
She married James Scott Sutterfield, Jr on Dec. 23, 1903 - she bore 9 children - 1 set of twins were stillborn (Ruth & Earl) while they were living in St. Louis; she worked as a domestic while James worked as a Jefferson Guard for the 1904 STL Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Expedition). They returned to the Sutterfield Farm and Marvin was born, then Telcie 'Jewel' who at the age of 3+ years developed diptheria, and died on Nov 23. At that time, Sarah was pregnant with twins Rosa & Ruby who were born prematurely just 4 days after 'Jewel' died. Then twin Ruby died after only 13 days - such sorrow in the house after the loss of two sweet little girls, and they are buried along side each other. That left Marvin and Rosa for awhile, but over the next 7 yrs Woodrow, Rayburn and Leona were born. These 5 children survived and thrived in the beautiful ozark area of MO called West Fork while their industrous pioneer mother kept the family going on their rural Sutterfield farm since James was often away wherever he could find work.
Once she took the wildly extravagant action of hiring a neighbor to drive his flatbed truck to take her and the children 17 miles for a picnic and outing to The Sinks so her children could see the beautiful place where she grew up.
Later after the children were all gone, trouble developed in the marriage and she and James divorced and she left the farm. At some point, she met and married a widower, Mr. Louis Carney, and they lived together in a house in Bunker, MO until they could no longer care for each other, then he went to live with a daughter and she came to live with her daughter, Rosa and family in St. Louis where she had a basement bedroom. She loved being able to freeze water (in the modern invention called a freezer) in a plastic glass and would make slush - she loved icy drinks. One day on the way back from getting her semi frozen glass out of the chest freezer, she slipped and fell and broke her hip on the concrete floor, and while in the hospital, caught pneumonia and died.
In her years living with her daughter and family, her grandchildren enjoyed being around her, saw her reading her bible, listening to the radio, smoking her corncob pipe, and chatting with her 6 yr old grand-daughter, Verna, who would sit on the steps leading to her downstairs bedroom.
Her father was named after his father, her grandfather, William Thompson (1790-1860) b in Rutherford Cty, N.C - d in Shannon Cty, MO and grandmother, Martha 'Patsey' Beasley Thompson (1792- ?) b in Warren Cty, N.C. d unknown.
The Beasley lineage goes back to 1530 in Lancaster, England - discovered on ancestry.com on a family tree. Her grandparents on the Chilton side are John Chilton and Lydia 'Woods' Chilton.
She married James Scott Sutterfield, Jr on Dec. 23, 1903 - she bore 9 children - 1 set of twins were stillborn (Ruth & Earl) while they were living in St. Louis; she worked as a domestic while James worked as a Jefferson Guard for the 1904 STL Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Expedition). They returned to the Sutterfield Farm and Marvin was born, then Telcie 'Jewel' who at the age of 3+ years developed diptheria, and died on Nov 23. At that time, Sarah was pregnant with twins Rosa & Ruby who were born prematurely just 4 days after 'Jewel' died. Then twin Ruby died after only 13 days - such sorrow in the house after the loss of two sweet little girls, and they are buried along side each other. That left Marvin and Rosa for awhile, but over the next 7 yrs Woodrow, Rayburn and Leona were born. These 5 children survived and thrived in the beautiful ozark area of MO called West Fork while their industrous pioneer mother kept the family going on their rural Sutterfield farm since James was often away wherever he could find work.
Once she took the wildly extravagant action of hiring a neighbor to drive his flatbed truck to take her and the children 17 miles for a picnic and outing to The Sinks so her children could see the beautiful place where she grew up.
Later after the children were all gone, trouble developed in the marriage and she and James divorced and she left the farm. At some point, she met and married a widower, Mr. Louis Carney, and they lived together in a house in Bunker, MO until they could no longer care for each other, then he went to live with a daughter and she came to live with her daughter, Rosa and family in St. Louis where she had a basement bedroom. She loved being able to freeze water (in the modern invention called a freezer) in a plastic glass and would make slush - she loved icy drinks. One day on the way back from getting her semi frozen glass out of the chest freezer, she slipped and fell and broke her hip on the concrete floor, and while in the hospital, caught pneumonia and died.
In her years living with her daughter and family, her grandchildren enjoyed being around her, saw her reading her bible, listening to the radio, smoking her corncob pipe, and chatting with her 6 yr old grand-daughter, Verna, who would sit on the steps leading to her downstairs bedroom.
Her father was named after his father, her grandfather, William Thompson (1790-1860) b in Rutherford Cty, N.C - d in Shannon Cty, MO and grandmother, Martha 'Patsey' Beasley Thompson (1792- ?) b in Warren Cty, N.C. d unknown.
The Beasley lineage goes back to 1530 in Lancaster, England - discovered on ancestry.com on a family tree. Her grandparents on the Chilton side are John Chilton and Lydia 'Woods' Chilton.
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