Sarah was the fifth of sixteen children born to Reuben B. BATCHELOR and Zilla Ann PRIDGEN. All sixteen children were born in Nash County, North Carolina, prior to the family's relocation to Texas.
Tragedy struck the family almost immediately upon their arrival in Texas as described by Mrs. Robert A. Taylor in the article she wrote in 1986 for the book, The History of Gonzales Texas. The article appeared on page 214 and was identified as F34, BATCHELOR, REUBEN b. AND ZILLA ANN PRIDGEN.
From that article: The family with their slaves left North Carolina by boat and landed at Indianola. They traveled northwest to Hockheim where they settled. Zilla's obituary stated, "Where in the short space of five weeks, the husband and four children were snatched, as it were, from a happy household, as was then in a new and untried country." Another record stated that Reuben and two sets of twins died within seven days of each other with the floody flux (dysentery). They were buried north of Hochheim about three miles on the east side of the river.
Sarah was born c1838. Thus, she was about 16 years old in 1853 when the family arrived in Texas. Fortunately, Sarah and some of her siblings were old enough in 1853 to help their mother through her obvious grief and with the responsibilities of a household in a new, remote location on the frontier, suddenly headed by a widow.
Sarah's siblings included: Lemon (aged 24), Julia (aged 21), Frances (aged 19) Angelina (aged 17), Anna (aged 15), Van Buren (aged 13), Maria (aged 11), Emma (aged 10), Atsie (aged 9) and Alonzo (aged 4). The twins who died were Elizabeth Raye "Betsy" and Armadilla J. (aged 7) and two as yet unidentified infants (aged 2 or less).
On 22 Feb 1857, Sarah was married to William Austin WHITEHEAD in DeWitt County, Texas.
Tragedy struck the family almost immediately upon their arrival in Texas as described by Mrs. Robert A. Taylor in the article she wrote in 1986 for the book, The History of Gonzales Texas. The article appeared on page 214 and was identified as F34, BATCHELOR, REUBEN b. AND ZILLA ANN PRIDGEN.
From that article: The family with their slaves left North Carolina by boat and landed at Indianola. They traveled northwest to Hockheim where they settled. Zilla's obituary stated, "Where in the short space of five weeks, the husband and four children were snatched, as it were, from a happy household, as was then in a new and untried country." Another record stated that Reuben and two sets of twins died within seven days of each other with the floody flux (dysentery). They were buried north of Hochheim about three miles on the east side of the river.
Sarah was born c1838. Thus, she was about 16 years old in 1853 when the family arrived in Texas. Fortunately, Sarah and some of her siblings were old enough in 1853 to help their mother through her obvious grief and with the responsibilities of a household in a new, remote location on the frontier, suddenly headed by a widow.
Sarah's siblings included: Lemon (aged 24), Julia (aged 21), Frances (aged 19) Angelina (aged 17), Anna (aged 15), Van Buren (aged 13), Maria (aged 11), Emma (aged 10), Atsie (aged 9) and Alonzo (aged 4). The twins who died were Elizabeth Raye "Betsy" and Armadilla J. (aged 7) and two as yet unidentified infants (aged 2 or less).
On 22 Feb 1857, Sarah was married to William Austin WHITEHEAD in DeWitt County, Texas.
Sarah was the fifth of sixteen children born to Reuben B. BATCHELOR and Zilla Ann PRIDGEN. All sixteen children were born in Nash County, North Carolina, prior to the family's relocation to Texas.
Tragedy struck the family almost immediately upon their arrival in Texas as described by Mrs. Robert A. Taylor in the article she wrote in 1986 for the book, The History of Gonzales Texas. The article appeared on page 214 and was identified as F34, BATCHELOR, REUBEN b. AND ZILLA ANN PRIDGEN.
From that article: The family with their slaves left North Carolina by boat and landed at Indianola. They traveled northwest to Hockheim where they settled. Zilla's obituary stated, "Where in the short space of five weeks, the husband and four children were snatched, as it were, from a happy household, as was then in a new and untried country." Another record stated that Reuben and two sets of twins died within seven days of each other with the floody flux (dysentery). They were buried north of Hochheim about three miles on the east side of the river.
Sarah was born c1838. Thus, she was about 16 years old in 1853 when the family arrived in Texas. Fortunately, Sarah and some of her siblings were old enough in 1853 to help their mother through her obvious grief and with the responsibilities of a household in a new, remote location on the frontier, suddenly headed by a widow.
Sarah's siblings included: Lemon (aged 24), Julia (aged 21), Frances (aged 19) Angelina (aged 17), Anna (aged 15), Van Buren (aged 13), Maria (aged 11), Emma (aged 10), Atsie (aged 9) and Alonzo (aged 4). The twins who died were Elizabeth Raye "Betsy" and Armadilla J. (aged 7) and two as yet unidentified infants (aged 2 or less).
On 22 Feb 1857, Sarah was married to William Austin WHITEHEAD in DeWitt County, Texas.
Tragedy struck the family almost immediately upon their arrival in Texas as described by Mrs. Robert A. Taylor in the article she wrote in 1986 for the book, The History of Gonzales Texas. The article appeared on page 214 and was identified as F34, BATCHELOR, REUBEN b. AND ZILLA ANN PRIDGEN.
From that article: The family with their slaves left North Carolina by boat and landed at Indianola. They traveled northwest to Hockheim where they settled. Zilla's obituary stated, "Where in the short space of five weeks, the husband and four children were snatched, as it were, from a happy household, as was then in a new and untried country." Another record stated that Reuben and two sets of twins died within seven days of each other with the floody flux (dysentery). They were buried north of Hochheim about three miles on the east side of the river.
Sarah was born c1838. Thus, she was about 16 years old in 1853 when the family arrived in Texas. Fortunately, Sarah and some of her siblings were old enough in 1853 to help their mother through her obvious grief and with the responsibilities of a household in a new, remote location on the frontier, suddenly headed by a widow.
Sarah's siblings included: Lemon (aged 24), Julia (aged 21), Frances (aged 19) Angelina (aged 17), Anna (aged 15), Van Buren (aged 13), Maria (aged 11), Emma (aged 10), Atsie (aged 9) and Alonzo (aged 4). The twins who died were Elizabeth Raye "Betsy" and Armadilla J. (aged 7) and two as yet unidentified infants (aged 2 or less).
On 22 Feb 1857, Sarah was married to William Austin WHITEHEAD in DeWitt County, Texas.
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