Person:Sarah Harvey (21)

The Wedding Papers of Jehiel Williams & Sarah Harvey- December 15, 1842.

    Whereas Jehiel Williams of the County of Hamilton, State of Indiana, Son of John Williams, and Mary his wife of the County of Wayne, State of Indiana, and Sarah Harvey, daughter of William Harvey and Rachel his wife, of the County of Hamilton, and State aforesaid, have declared their intentions of marriage with each other before a Monthly Meeting of the religious Society of Friends held at Westfield and having the consent of parents, Said proposals are allowed of by Said Meeting.

    These I am therefore to certify to all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of their Said intention this the Fifteenth Day of the Twelfth Month of the Year of the Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Two. They the Said Jehiel Williams and Sarah Harvey appeared in public Meeting of Said People held at Sugar Ridge ( a branch of Westfield MM), and the Said Jehiel Williams taking the Said Sarah Harvey by the hand, declared that he took the Said Sarah Harvey to be his wife, promising with Divine Assistance to be to her a loving and faithful husband until death should seperate them. Then the Said Sarah Harvey did in like manner declare that she took him, the Said Jehiel Williams to be her husband, promising with Divine Assistance to be to him a loving and faithful wife, until death should seperate them, and moreover, they, the Said Jehiel Williams and Sarah Harvey, she according to the custom of Marriage, adopting the name of her husband. Now as a further confirmation there to these Presents set their hands.

And we, whose names are here unto ___ Jehiel Williams___ subscribed being present at the Solemnization of Said Marriage have ___ Sarah Harvey___ witnessed and thereto have set our hands the day and year above written.

___ William Harvey __Elvira Pary ___Solomon Cook___ ___ Rachel Harvey ___Abel Elliott ___Rachel Ridgeway___ ___ Caleb Harvey ___Sarah Elliott ___Sarah Picket___ ___ Malinda Harvey ___Riley Bond ___Kezia Ridgeway___ ___ John Harvey ___Sarah Boon ___William Picket___ ___ Rachel Cook ___Henry Pickett ___Thomas Rich___ ___ Rachel Harvey ___Henry Bushong ___Jabez Brown___ ___ Jacob Griffin ___  ? Rich ___John Boon___ ___ Emily Cook ___John Ridgeway ___Jonathon Bushong___ ___ Enos Pray ___Richard Ridgeway ___ Nathan Cook ___Elihu Cook ___Fielder Brown___

W.C. Bray, Notary Public

1. ↑ A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
2. ↑ Harvey History "Book", by N. E. Almond, 12/99..
3. ↑ Carolyn (Haworth) Johnson Interview, September, 2000..
4. ↑ Remembrance card from Sarah's funeral..