Sarah (Percy) Ware (1781 - 1836)

Wife of John Ellis — married 31 Dec 1799 in Adams, Mississippi, United States

Wife of Nathaniel A. Ware — married 1 Sep 1814 in Adams, Mississippi, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Sarah Percy was born on 1781, the daughter of Charles Percy and Susannah Collins. Sarah Percy first married John Ellis, d. 1808 secondly married Nathaniel Ware, b. 1789, d. 1854. She died 1836.

Sarah had married Judge Ellis when she was only eighteen, on December 21, 1799. Settling at Ellis Cliffs, 20 miles below Natchez, they made their home Laurel Hill, a plantation house built sometime before 1775. According to a Spanish military intelligence report, Abram Ellis, Sarah Percy’s father in law, had been known as “the riches and quietest inhabitant” of the district. After Judge Ellis die in late 1808, she fell in love with the handsome Nathaniel A. Ware of Woodville, Wilkinson County, near the old Northumberlnd House plantation and married him in 1814. He was a well-regarded lawyer in partnership with the Thomas B. Reed, a leading attorney of the region.^[1]

Husband: Judge John Ellis d,1808

Wife: Susan Percy

Marriage Date: December 21, 1799

Husband: Nathaniel A. Ware

Wife: Susan Percy

Marriage Date: 1814

Sarah went insane in 1820 at the birth of her 4th child. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family. Oxford University Press, Oct 31, 1996, 504 pp.
2. ↑ Blakes, Alvin. “Black Families of Edgefield Plantation – Woodville, Mississippi: Part 7.” Almost Disappeared, August 1, 2021. http://almostdisappeared.com/black-families-of-edgefield-plantation-woodville-mississippi-part-7/

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• Marriage: "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
  citing FHL microfilm: 893521;
  FamilySearch Record: V2D4-NXG (accessed 1 July 2023)
  Sarah Ellis marriage to N. A. Ware on 1 Sep 1814 in Adams, Mississippi, United States.
• Baptism: "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934"
  citing FHL microfilm: 6010598; Record number: 9537123;
  FamilySearch Record: HSRP-RLPZ (accessed 2 July 2023)
  Sarah Piercy baptism on 26 Jan 1783 (born 1782), daughter of Charles Piercy & Susanna Collins, in Louisiana, United States.