Sarah Ann (Bailey) Cushing (1833 - 1901)

Born 14 Nov 1833 in Pembroke, Washington, Maine, United States

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Died 9 Feb 1901 at age 67 in Westwood, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Sarah Bailey was born on 14 November 1833, in Pembroke, Maine.^{[1] [2]} (Her birth date was calculated from her Massachusetts death record and agrees with the birthdate on the 1900 U.S. Census record.) Her father was Ephraim Bailey and her mother was Lois A. Varney.^{[3] [4]} She married William H. Cushing on 18 November 1852, in Pembroke, Maine.^{[5] [6]} She reported that she had 9 children^[7] but only 8 children can be identified in census records.^{[8] [9]} The family lived first in Pembroke, Maine^[10] but moved to Providence, Rhode Island about 1870, where Sarah kept house (was a homemaker not employed outside the home)^[11] then moved to Cumberland, Rhode Island by 1875.^[12] They moved again by 1880 to Cambridge Massachusetts.^[13] By 1900 the family lived in Westwood, Massachusetts.^[14] Sarah died on 9 February 1901 in Westwood, Massachusetts, at the age of 67, from apoplexy & old age.^[15] Sarah was buried in the Cambridge Cemetery, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18.
2. ↑ Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915
3. ↑ 1850; Census Place: Pembroke, Washington, Maine; Roll: M432_273; Page: 75A; Image: 146
4. ↑ Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915
5. ↑ Oral history of Orville Edkins' (Sarah Bailey Cushing's grandson's) family
6. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18.
7. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18.
8. ↑ 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record
9. ↑ 1880 United States Federal Census
10. ↑ 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records
11. ↑ 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record
12. ↑ Rhode Island, State Censuses, 1865-1935
13. ↑ 1880 United States Federal Census
14. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18
15. ↑ Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915
16. ↑ Oral history of Orville Edkins' (Sarah Bailey Cushing's grandson's) family

• Year: 1850; Census Place: Pembroke, Washington, Maine; Roll: M432_273; Page: 75A; Image: 146

• Year: 1860; Census Place: Pembroke, Washington, Maine; Roll: M653_455; Page: 651; Family History Library Film: 803455

• Year: 1900; Census Place: Westwood, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 1080

• New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911