Sarah (Brownfield) Springer (1797 - 1891)

Born 26 Sep 1797 in Frederick County, Virginia, United States of America

Ancestors

Wife of Dennis Springer — married 22 Mar 1821 in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Jan 1891 at age 93 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Biography

From “Levi Springer House Fan Hollow Road Union Town Vicinity Fayette County Pennsylvania – Photographs Drawings Written Historical and Architectural Data” ^[1]:

"...Thomas Brownfield was an early pioneer, coming to Fayette County from the same area of Virginia as themselves (Springers), and establishing in 1805 perhaps the premiere tavern-stop in Uniontown, the White Swan. Of the six children of Sarah and Dennis, four of them -- Levi B, Sarah, Mary Ann, and Elizabeth--lived out their entire lives in the old brick mansion built by their grandfather. The other two children married, and dispersed. Lydia married Albert Rizer (on September 25, 1845), who took his family to Cumberland, Maryland, where she died at the age of 38 in 1865. Catherine Springer (Lydia's sister) married Porter Craig (whose family had farms in South Union Township) at the Springer House itself on February 24, 1863. The four siblings stayed together on the farm, tending the house, and adding outbuildings until 1906.

When Elizabeth Springer, the last sister, died in 1913 at the age of 90, there was no family member left to inherit. The grown children of Lydia Springer Rizer had dispersed again, to West Virginia, Ohio and even Oregon. The children of Catherine Springer Craig had already inherited farms in South Union Township from their father's family, so neither could any of them take over the main farm. So at 2:00 PM on Thursday September 11, 1913, the Springer House and 273 acres of the excellent limestone farm, with all of the outbuildings, twenty-five head of fine two-year old steers, and 150 tons of hay, were sold at public auction."

Timeline

Residence 1850: Union, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ^[2]

Residence 1870: Pennsylvania, United States. ^[3]

Residence 1880: North Union, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. ^[4]

Research Notes

from findagrave.com - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Springer&GSiman=1&GSsr=41&GScid=1605308&GRid=39952676& ^[5]

"Sarah Brownfield Springer BIRTH: Sep. 26, 1797, Frederick County, Virginia, USA DEATH: Jan. 17, 1891, Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA DAUGHTER OF Thomas Brownfield & Elizabeth Fisher. WIFE OF Dennis Springer. CHILDREN: Mary Ann Springer (1821 - 1905)* Elizabeth Brownfield Springer (1823 - 1913)* Sarah Jane Springer (1829 - 1907)* Levi Springer (1832 - 1910)* Catherine McCleary Springer Craig (1838 - 1928)* SIBLINGS: Catherine Brownfield McCleary (1793 - 1834)* Rebecca Brownfield Hair (1795 - 1862)* Sarah Brownfield Springer (1797 - 1891) Mary Brownfield Wolverton (1799 - 1877)* Barak Fisher Brownfield (1801 - 1803)* Ewing Brownfield (1803 - 1889)* Rachel Brownfield Searight Stidger (1805 - 1893)* Thomas Brownfield (1807 - 1881)* John Brownfield (1808 - 1890)* Nathaniel M. Brownfield (1810 - 1895)* Elizabeth Brownfield (1812 - 1813)* Hannah Brownfield Roberts (1814 - 1900)* Elizabeth Ann Brownfield (1815 - 1815)* Ester S. Brownfield Snyder (1817 - 1902)*(*Calculated relationship) BURIAL: Oak Grove Cemetery Uniontown Fayette County Pennsylvania, USA Created by: Jennifer F. Shank Record added: Jul 27, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 39952676"

• Springer Family obituaries located at - http://www.pagenweb.org/~fayette-obits/obits/d67.htm

• Genealogy.com Brownfield Forum thread - "SARAH BROWNFIELD married DENNIS SPRINGER"; By Cathy Farrell June 02, 2014 at 11:29:11; In reply to: THOMAS BROWNFIELD married ELIZABETH FISHER; Cathy Farrell 5/28/14; http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/brownfield/436/

Sources

1. ↑ “Levi Springer House Fan Hollow Road Union Town Vicinity Fayette County Pennsylvania – Photographs Drawings Written Historical and Architectural Data” Historic American Buildings Survey, Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Custom House, Room 251, 2nd & Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106; HABS No. PA-5482; http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa1900/pa1976/data/pa1976data.pdf
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4H6-8BD : accessed 22 March 2016), Sarah Springer in household of Dennis Springer, Union, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 442, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZP3-TXX : accessed 22 March 2016), Sarah Springer in household of Levi B Springer, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 2, family 12, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,842.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWF8-7RQ : accessed 22 March 2016), Sarah Springer in household of Levi B Springer, North Union, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 48, sheet 349C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1130; FHL microfilm 1,255,130.
5. ↑ * "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKF-L6CZ : accessed 22 March 2016), Sarah Springer, 1891; Burial, Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Oak Grove Cemetery; citing record ID 39952676, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania: containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county:also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family history"; Henry E. (Henry Elliot) Shepherd; Uniontown, Pa. : S.B. Nelson; Contributor: University of Pittsburgh Library System (http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/henry-e-henry-elliot-shepherd/nelsons-biographical-dictionary-and-historical-reference-book-of-fayette-county-peh-341.shtml - need a better online link if there is one, this one is full of typographical errors.)

• Smyth, Samuel Gordon, comp. and ed, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents. (Lancaster, PA: Press of the New Era Publishing Company, 1909. (Smyth was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and of the Historical Societies of Montgomery and Bucks Counties in Pennsylvania.)

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