Sarah Ann (Hendershot) Morgan (1814 - 1896)

Born 11 Feb 1814 in Madison Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of John Niblack Morgan — married 1838 in Macon Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died 1896 at about age 81 in Macon, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Susan DeFoe [send private message]

This profile is Genealogically Defined.

Biography

Sarah Hendershot, daughter of William Hendershot and Mary (Kitchen) Hendershot, was born in Madison Township, Pennsylvania in 1814.^{[citation needed]} Her father left Pennsylvania and moved "west," settling in the Michigan Territory. He cleared land to farm in Macon Township, in southeast Michigan. There, Sarah Hendershot married John Morgan, whose family had moved west from New York, marrying around 1838.^{[citation needed]} They purchased land in Saline Township, in the next county over, farming there.^[1][2][3][4]

Sarah Morgan's husband passed away in 1894 and Sarah moved in with her daughter, Rosetta Crittenden, and her family, who also lived in Saline Township.^[5] Sarah Morgan passed away around the age of 82 and is buried in the Morgan family plot at Macon Cemetery in Macon Township, Michigan.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8R-8DD : 4 April 2020), Sarah Ann Morgan in household of John Morgan, Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States; citing family 156, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWDZ-X6N : 19 March 2020), Sarah A Morgan in entry for John N Morgan, 1860.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCL-ZF9 : 29 May 2021), Sarah A Morgan in entry for John M Morgan, 1870.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW3K-8RW : 14 January 2022), Sarah Morgan in household of John Morgan, Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
5. ↑ "Michigan State Census, 1894," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHK8-LW7 : 12 March 2018), Sarah A Morgan in household of William H Crittendon, Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States; citing p. 104, State Archives, Lansing; FHL microfilm 955,811.
6. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL9-7R68 : 13 December 2015), Sarah A. Morgan, Burial, Macon, Lenawee, Michigan, United States of America, Macon Cemetery. Find A Grave: Memorial #81599317