Sarah was born in 1773. She is understood to be the daughter of Moses Saunders and Mary Sarah (Hamilton) Saunders. Sarah married Obediah Hooper, 1805, Franklin County, Georgia. She was his third wife. In 1860 Sarah is recorded on the federal census in the Yalobusha County, Mississippi of her daughter Elizabeth and son in law Robert Perkins. [1]Sarah died 1862.[2]
Children: William Sanders Hooper b. 11 Jan 1806 Obediah B. Hooper b. 13 Jan 1807 Elizabeth Betsy Polly Carter Hooper b. 17 Jul 1808 Amelia Milly Hooper b. 12 Oct 1809 James Hooper b. 06 Apr 1811
Sarah was also the step mother of Richard Hooper, who's daughter Mary Elizabeth married into the Sanders family when wedded to Sarah's Great Nephew William Hamilton Sanders. FAG Memorials exist for all of these people.
Flora Hooper Collier's book " Hooper Genealogy A Southern Branch" page 104 shows her buried in this cemetery, but a search has failed to find a tomb stone for her.
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