Sarah was reportedly born at Fort Brady in Chippewa County. It was a frontier fort built in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan to guard against incursions from Canada.
Mortuary Notice published in the Duluth News-Tribune, Duluth, MN on Sunday, Nov. 17, 1901: Vol: 23, Page 1
Mrs. Samuel Morse Dead
NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse, widow of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, died in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday. She was Prof. Morse's second wife and was married to him in 1848. She was born in 1827. Four children, one daughter and three sons, were born to her, and it was at the home of her daughter in Berlin, that she died."
Sarah and Samuel had four children, the three listed below and also daughter Cornelia Livingstone Morse born 1851.
Family Members
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1791–1872 (m. 1848)
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Samuel Arthur Breese Morse
1849–1876
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William Goodrich Morse
1853–1933
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Edward Lind Morse
1857–1923
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Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse
1880 United States Federal Census
Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse
New York, U.S., State Census, 1875
Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse
New York, U.S., State Census, 1865
Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse
Berlin, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1955
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