Sarah Emma (Merrill) Beal (1871 - 1939)

Born 8 Oct 1871 in Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 1939 at about age 67 in Maine, United States

Biography

Sarah Emma "Sadie" Merrill was born in 1871 in Maine.^[1] She was the daughter of Seward Merrill and Sarah Dyer.

Sarah married Jonathan Lewis Beal (1858-1928) in 1892, in Maine. Sarah and Jonathan were first cousins. Children:

1. Ethel Emma (1892-1893)^[2] - died young - (her death record)
2. Ethel Emma (1893-1972) - m. Robert R. Meggett
3. William L. (1903-1934)^[3] - never married?

They lived in Lisbon, Androscoggin Maine with their daughter Ethel-28, and son William-14, in 1920, where Lewis was a picker in a Wollen Mill.^[4]

She died at the age of 67, in 1939 in Maine,^[5] and was buried in the Hillside Cemetery' in Lisbon Falls, Androscoggin, Maine.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Sarah Emma “Sadie” Merrill Beal (1871–1939), Find A Grave: Memorial #38216945, citing Hillside Cemetery, Lisbon Falls, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA; Maintained by Maine 101 (contributor 47130320).
2. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ3H-HKT : Tue Oct 31 08:06:56 UTC 2023), Entry for Ethel Emma Beal and J Lewis Beal, 24 Dec 1893.
3. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ3H-PQS : Tue Oct 31 17:11:40 UTC 2023), Entry for William L Beal and Lewis J Beal, 13 Jan 1903.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFZ4-23K : Thu Dec 07 19:33:51 UTC 2023), Entry for Lewis J Beal and Sarah E Beal, 1920.
5. ↑ "Maine, Tombstone Inscriptions, Surname Index, 1620-2014", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5WM-R81J : Thu Nov 16 06:04:48 UTC 2023), Entry for Sadie E Beal and J Lewis, 1939.

See Also:

• 1880 Durham, Androscoggin, Maine US Census - Sadie is 8 years old, living with her parents and three older siblings - her father is a farmer
• 1900 Lisbon, Androscoggin, Maine US Census - housewife with one daughter and her widowed mother - her husband is a machine tumbler in a woolen mill
• 1920 Lisbon, Androscoggin, Maine US Census - housewife with two children - her husband is a picker in a woolen mill
• Descendants of Richard Waterhouse of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by George Herbert Waterhouse, Wakefield, Mass., 1934

Acknowledgements

Merrill-18 was created by Myron Phillips through the import of dyermaeettaaug2010.ged on 10 September 2010.