Born in Kossuth Township, Washington, Maine, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Nelson Webber Scribner
and Caroline (Blanchard) Scribner
Sister of
Lucius Bonnyport Scribner, Simon Scribner, Ernest Hinckley Scribner and Estelle Jean (Scribner) Getchell
Wife of
John William Neal
— married
2 Apr 1879 in Kossuth Township, Washington, Maine, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
William Lee Neal
Died
at age 86
in Millinocket, Penobscot, Maine, United States
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Biography
Daughter of Nelson Scribner and Caroline Blanchard.
Augusta traveled across country several times with her family. She was part of a wagon train that went from Maine to California. She encountered Indians several times and helped with defending the children and others in the wagon train raids. John Neal, her first husband, caught "Gold Fever" and headed West to try his luck. Sarah went with him and until he died in Session, Siskiyou, California on 18 September 1889.
She stayed in California for awhile and then packed up her children, Dora, Carrie, Willie, Maggie, and Lorenzo, and headed back to Maine. After returning to Maine she married second Charles Moore and had one more child
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Augusta Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Augusta Sarah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Augusta Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Augusta Sarah:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Dwayne Young 
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TE7989049 [compare], Ancestry member Dwayneyoung267
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~0.78%
C.l. Rife :
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Rejected matches › Sarah (Stovall) Neals (1858-)
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