Sarah (Strout) Hanscom (abt. 1792 - 1865)

Born about Jul 1792 in Limington, York, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 14 Apr 1865 at about age 72 in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine, USA [uncertain]

Biography

Birth

No record has been found of the birth of Sarah "Sally" Strout. The 1850 Census shows her as 58 years old, born in Maine.^[1] Her age at her death from her gravestone computes to a birth date of about July 1792.^[2] The death records of her sons Nathan Hanscom and Sullivan Hanscom both say that their mother was born at Raymond, Maine (then in Massachusetts),^[3][4] but Raymond was not incorporated until 1803. An unsourced website says she was born in July 1792 at Limington, Maine (then in Massachusetts), the daughter of Prince Strout and Christiana (Dyer) Strout^[5] She was the fifth listed among six children of Prince and Christian Strout who were baptized at Limington on 9 Nov 1796.^[6]

Marriage

Sarah Strout married Nathan Hansom. The death records of Nathan Hanscom, and Sullivan Hanscom, and George W. Hanscom all name their parents as Nathan Hanscom and Sarah Strout.^[3][4][7]

Death

In 1850, Sally Hanscom was living at Minot, Maine, at the age of 58, with her husband Nathan, 62, and their sons Nathan, 22, and Sullivan, 12.^[1] The gravestone of Sarah Hanscom at the Old Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Maine, says that she died on 14 Apr 1865 at the age of 72 years, 9 months.^[2][8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Sally Hanscom in the Nathan Hanscomb household, family #259, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Cumberland > Minot > image 35 of 43; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Transcription made in 1945 of the inscription on the gravestone of "Sarah, wife of Nathan Hanscom" (subscription required), showing her age as 72 years, 9 months, in Lenora White McQuesten, "Inscriptions from gravestones at Poland, Maine," in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 99 (1945), page 133
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Death record of Nathan Hanscom, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records 1892-1907 > Hamm-Harding, 1899 > image 2426 of 4053; multiple sources, Maine.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Death record of Sullivan Hanscom, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records, 1908-1922 > Hamilton - Harding > image 2391 of 3867; multiple sources, Maine.
5. ↑ Website, "Descendants of Christopher Strout, Sr." (Jean L. Franks, 1013 Jacoby St., Schofield, WI 54476), accessed 7 Mar 2021
6. ↑ Baptismal record of the children of Prince and Christian Strout (subscription required), in "Limington, Maine, Church Records," oin Walter Goodwin Davis, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 99 (1945), page 197
7. ↑ Death record of George W. Hanscom, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch > Vital records, 1908-1922 > Hamilton - Harding > image 2406 of 3867; multiple sources, Maine.
8. ↑ Undated transcription of the inscription on the gravestone of Sarah Hanscom, showing her age at his death as 72 years, in Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1990, database with images, FamilySearch > Hamilton - Harmon > image 1628 of 3070; Maine State Library, Augusta.