Sarah Linn (1806 - 1892)

Born 22 Sep 1806 in Concord, Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of John Snyder — married 1825 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Died 11 Jun 1892 at age 85 in Tiffin, Jackson County, Iowa

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Biography

The following biography was taken verbatim from the 1905 history and genealogy of the Linn family ...

"Sarah Linn was born in Horse Valley, Pennsylvania, Sept. 22d, 1806, and was married to John Snyder, of Hill Valley, Pennsylvania, in February, 1825. After her marriage she went with her husband to Hill Valley, Pennsylvania, but soon moved from there to Black Log Valley, and after residing there a short time settled in Springfield Township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. There the better part of their lives was spent and most of their children born. As the youngest of the family is trying to write this short sketch, his memory goes back to the old home and he remembers it as one of industry and toil, but where friends and neighbors were ever welcome, no one ever saying aught against the family of John Snyder, whose door was always open to the minister of the Gospel, they being active members of the Methodist Church from early manhood and womanhood. In their home the family altar was erected and the gospel fire kept burning thereon. In the fall of 1865 they sold their farm on the Aughwick to Hugh and Jacob B. Linn and moved to Johnson county, Iowa, where they settled on the prairie and opened up a new farm, but only lived there a few years. They sold the farm and moved to Tiffin, Iowa, where her husband died, November 4, 1878, at the age of seventy-eight years. She resided there until her death, June 11th, 1892, being eighty-five years, six months and nineteen days old. "

Research Notes

Fern, daughter of Eva Louise (Horn) Miller (1911-2010), is an mtDNA matches to Kirby (Mullenberg) Drake. I'm adding the mtDNA category to female line associated with this connection. -Mullenberg-4 16:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Sources

• "A History of a Fragment of the Clan Linn", Dr. George Wilds Linn (1905), pp. 99, 189