Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Runyon
and Rachel Hyde
Sister of
Anna Elizabeth Runyon, Vincent Runyon, Orminer Runyon, Rachel Runyon, Joseph Runyon, Francis Runyon, Anna Elizabeth Runyon, Henry Runyon [half], Isaac Runyon [half], Catherine Runyon [half], David Runyon [half] and Amos Runyon [half]
Wife of
Jacob Boss
— married
6 Feb 1799 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States
Descendants 
Died
at about age 97
[location unknown]
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Biography
Sarah was born about 1771 to John Runyan and Rachel Hyde; she was one of nine children.[1]
Her mother Rachel died around 1787, and her father remarried to Rebecca Landis and had five more children.
She married Jacob Boss in 1799.[2][3]
Her father died in 1813; she and her husband are named in his will, along with her siblings (Vincent, Francis, Anne, Henry, Isaac, Catherine, David, and Amos) and mother Rebecca.[4]
Her husband died in 1841.
In 1860 at age 89, she lived with her daughter Rachel Boss Evans and her family in Baltimore, Maryland.[5]
She died in 1868 and was buried with her husband in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.[6] A transcription of her tombstone, in the Larison's Corner Cemetery (now Amwell United First Presbyterian Church) says she died 8 Nov 1868 in her 98th year (birth therefore about 1771).[7]
Sources
- ↑ Ege, Ralph. 1908. Pioneers of Old Hopewell; with sketches of her revolutionary heroes. Race & Savage, Hopewell, New Jersey. https://archive.org/details/pioneersoldhope00egegoog/page/n168/mode/2up?q=runyan
- ↑ "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VW5V-6Z4 : 27 September 2017), Jacob Boss and Sarah Runyan, 06 Feb 1799; citing Hunterdon, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton; FHL microfilm 818,212.
- ↑ "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VW5K-VX9 : 27 September 2017), Jacob Boss and Sarah Runyan, 06 Feb 1799; citing Hunterdon, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton; FHL microfilm 818,212.
- ↑ "New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9S8-V93V-9?cc=2018330&wc=MQTM-MNG%3A338011201%2C338011202 : 21 May 2014), Hunterdon > Wills 1804-1815 vol 1-2 > image 411 of 529; county courthouses, New Jersey.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M69L-95W : 12 December 2017), Sarah Boss in entry for Joseph Evans, 1860.
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV7-JPKS : 13 December 2015), Sarah Boss, 1868; Burial, Ringoes, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States of America, Amwell Ridge Cemetery; citing record ID 6204261, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- ↑ Deats, Hiram Edmund. 1910. Tombstone Inscriptions from Hunterdon County cemeteries. p. 56 https://archive.org/details/tombstoneinscrip00deat/page/56/mode/2up
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Are you sure she was the daughter of Rebecca (Landis) Runkel (1761-1850), who was born in 1761? Her mother would have been only 10 years old when she was born.
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Lisa Hazard
Good question. Something's definitely funny here. Another possibility is that Sarah's birth date, which was based on her age in the 1860 census and on her gravestone in 1868, is incorrect. I'll look into it and see if I can find better documentation one way or the other.
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