Sarah was a daughter of Rev. Davis A. Leonard (1771–1819) and Polly Peirce (1777–1836). She married David Meriwether in Feb 1823 in Floyd County, Indiana; they were the parents of 12 children.
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Louisville Daily Journal; Louisville Democrat; Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Kentucky) 6 May 1859
Died in Jefferson County on the afternoon of the 4th instant Mrs. Sarah H. Meriwether, wife of the Hon. David Meriwether, late governor of New Mexico, after an illness of three days. Mrs. Meriwether died in the 59th year of her age. For the past few years she had been occasionally afflicted with serious disease of the stomach, which occasionally proved very intractable. The recent attack was unquestionably connected with this malady, which aided in rendering it fatal.
Mrs. Meriwether was known to the writer of this account upwards of twenty six years, and the quiet unassuming and dignified graces of her deportment made an early impression that grew deeper and broader with advancing years. In her domestic virtues she was unsurpassed. Her mind had a great deal of natural vigor, and its natural forces were increased by intercourse with the works of the master minds of English literature. She reared a family of seven children, and she had the satisfaction of seeing them exhibit the fruits in maturity of that early culture in which she assiduously devoted herself. Her family, her relatives, and numerous friends will greatly miss her from that circle of duties to which she confined her attentions and in which she excelled. Her husband and family have our heart-felt and sincere condolements in their heavy affliction and bereavement.
∼TMSI [6850]: M1227a — Spouse.
Sarah was a daughter of Rev. Davis A. Leonard (1771–1819) and Polly Peirce (1777–1836). She married David Meriwether in Feb 1823 in Floyd County, Indiana; they were the parents of 12 children.
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Louisville Daily Journal; Louisville Democrat; Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Kentucky) 6 May 1859
Died in Jefferson County on the afternoon of the 4th instant Mrs. Sarah H. Meriwether, wife of the Hon. David Meriwether, late governor of New Mexico, after an illness of three days. Mrs. Meriwether died in the 59th year of her age. For the past few years she had been occasionally afflicted with serious disease of the stomach, which occasionally proved very intractable. The recent attack was unquestionably connected with this malady, which aided in rendering it fatal.
Mrs. Meriwether was known to the writer of this account upwards of twenty six years, and the quiet unassuming and dignified graces of her deportment made an early impression that grew deeper and broader with advancing years. In her domestic virtues she was unsurpassed. Her mind had a great deal of natural vigor, and its natural forces were increased by intercourse with the works of the master minds of English literature. She reared a family of seven children, and she had the satisfaction of seeing them exhibit the fruits in maturity of that early culture in which she assiduously devoted herself. Her family, her relatives, and numerous friends will greatly miss her from that circle of duties to which she confined her attentions and in which she excelled. Her husband and family have our heart-felt and sincere condolements in their heavy affliction and bereavement.
∼TMSI [6850]: M1227a — Spouse.
Gravesite Details
Originally buried in family cemetery; relocated to Cave Hill, interment date 15 May 1912. Headstone has incorrect death year.
Family Members
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Catherine Hardenia Burnley Meriwether Graves
1824–1895
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William Augustus Meriwether
1825–1903
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Maria Louisa Meriwether
1827 – unknown
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David Leonard Meriwether
1829–1841
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Orlando Raymond Meriwether
1830–1899
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COL James Beverley Meriwether
1831–1899
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Edward Meriwether
1833–1843
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Elizabeth Winslow "Lizzie" Meriwether Williams
1835–1902
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Mary Leonard Meriwether Bartlett
1837–1889
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Evelyn Farnham Meriwether
1839 – unknown
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Helen Hay Meriwether
1840 – unknown
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David Albert Meriwether
1842–1872
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