Sarah (Boone) Brooks (1763 - 1848)

Born 24 Nov 1763 in Mason, Kentucky

Ancestors

Wife of David Montgomery — married 9 Jun 1802 in Mason, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 31 Dec 1848 at age 85 in Adams, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Sarah (Boone) Brooks is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A015081.

Birth and Parentage

According to Ella Hazel Atterbury Spraker's The Boone Family, Sarah Boone was the daughter of Samuel Boone and Sarah née day. ^[1]

Her entry in The Boone Family records she was born on 24 November 1763, undoubtedly a daughter of Samuel Boone, brother of Daniel, the early American pioneer,  :although information concerning her was received too late for her name to be recorded among the children of Samuel Boone and wife Sarah Day. (See page 58).....^[1]

Sarah Boone, as a young girl, carried water at Bryan's Station [[1]] during the siege of August 1782.

Marriages and Family

She married, first, on 13 March, 1782, probably in Boonesborough, Kentucky:

• Thomas Brooks (b. about 1760; d 15 April 1800) .

Thomas Brooks was a well-known scout and Indian fighter. His family was from Fauquier Co Virginia. He went to Kentucky in the early days of its settlement, and with Daniel Boone, Jacob Boone and others laid out the town of Limestone (now Maysville), where he lived until his death. ^[1] He served three years as a private in the Virginia Continental Line, for which he received a grant of land. In Mason Co, Ky are records of land transfers signed by Thomas Brooks and Sarah Boone Brooks in 1791.^[1]

They had 7 children:

1. Kezia Brooks b. 7 Jan 1783; d 17 Jul 1853; married 23 June 1803, Major John Ellis (b. 15 June 1777; d 11 Aug 1824)...

2. Boaz Brooks b. 29 Dec 1784.

3. Demarcus Brooks, b 19 Feb 1787; married on 14 March 1810, Pricilla Palmer living in 1863 in Brown Co, Ohio.

4. Mason Brooks, b. 31 May 1789.

5. Alphonzo Brooks b. 18 March 1791; Maria Peck.....

6. Adolphus Brooks, b. 30 Jan 1793.

7. Elizabeth Brooks, b 11 Dec 1794; married John Scott, 10 Dec 1815. In Sept 1863, she lived in Highland Co, Ohio.

Thomas died on 15 Apr 1800.

After Thomas' death, Sarah married

• David Montgomery (b. 20 Jan 1772; d 12 Feb 1853), on 10 June 1802 and moved across the Ohio River to Adams Co, Ohio, where she lived until her death. ^[1]

They had 3 known children:

1. Sarah Montgomery b. 25 Apr 1803; d 31 Dec 1848; married Thomas P Foster.

2. Boone Montgomery b. 26 Oct 1804; d 30 March 1888; married first in 1826, Mary Ann Foster (b. 1805); and second, Julia Reed.....

3. Evans (or Ivan) Montgomery, b 12 Sept 1809, tenth child of Sarah Boone; married Catherine Hughes (b. 1808).....

Death

Sarah died in Adams County, Ohio on 31 December 1848 ^[2]and was buried at Decatur, Ohio. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Spraker, Ella Hazel (Atterbury), Mrs., (1922)., The Boone Family. Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle company. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 8 July 2022.
2. ↑ FamilySearch Online Database. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 9 July 2022.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 14 May 2023), "Record of Sarah Boone Brooks", Ancestor # A015081.
• FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LTYT-7JC