Sarah is the fourth of nine children in the family of Charles and Ginnet Winton Simmons. The family live in Sugar Grove, Illinois when she was 12.[1]
She married James Rowley in Kane County when she was about 20.[2]He was likely the younger brother of her sister Rachel's husband William C. Rowley.
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M851-R95 : accessed 5 May 2015), Charles Simmons, Sugar Grove, Kane, Illinois, United States; citing family 2628, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF23-74Z : accessed 13 June 2016), James A. Rowley and Sarah A. Simmons, 31 Oct 1858; citing Kane, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,443,738.
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