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Sarah Ann Hudson
d.2 Mar 1937 Ft. Smith, Arkansas
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m. 25 Aug 1853
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m. 18 May 1876
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She was born on the Hudson farm, in Grand Prarie, Franklin County Arkansas. Jerry D. Abshier observed this house at #1940 on Franklin County Road #60, during his visit to Franklin County in June of 2001. It was a very handsome house - small, but quite becoming. As a very young child, Sallie worked at the spinning wheel making yarn to be woven into cloth. Her father died, after walking home from Georgia during the Civil War on Christmas Eve, when she was twelve years old. Yankee soldiers had taken everything, including planting seed. She was 15 years and 8 months old when she married Amos DeWitt I, who was 27. She married him three years after his first wife (her sister Bradley) died. She rode horseback to Charleston, Arkansas for the ceremony. She produced six children with her husband Amos, all of whom were born on the DeWitt family farm in Peter Pender, Franklin County, Arkansas. She belonged to the Church of Christ. According to the Sallie Lee DeWitt 1981 Genealogy, Sallie Ann enjoyed poetry. She "was a delicate 89-pounder, about five feet tall. Her ready smile made her appear to be squinting. Aunt Sallie, as she was known in Franklin County, was revered by family and neighbors in the little community where she lived. She was widowed at age 55 and could be seen pitching hay to feed the cows, milking, churning, working in her garden, drying apricots, pears, apples, and peaches for the winter months by placing them by day out in the sun, sprinkling them with sulfur, and bringing them in at night out of the dew before placing them outside in the sun the following day. She canned vegetables out of her garden and stored the jars in her fruit cellar. She kept her milk and butter cold and fresh by lowering it into the well in her front yard; her smokehouse had an aroma of country ham and salt bacon. There was no hot water in the DeWitt home but it did have running water in the kitchen. She carried in wood for the pot-bellied stove in the dining room, for the fireplace in the living room, and firewood for the kitchen stove; it was cut by her grandsons Roger, Bobby, and Hillman (sons of Mills DeWitt) who lived nearby. Her "safe" in the dining room held poundcakes wrapped in a cloth that could not contain the delicious aroma. In the early part of the Twentieth Century, oranges were a scarce item - mostly to be found in Christmas stockings which were hung on a nail over the fireplace. The fragrant peelings were saved and dried on Sallie Ann Hudson DeWitt's windowsill, later to be grated and used for seasoning her delicious butter poundcakes. Grand daughters remember her wearing a chemise on her child-like frame and several (about 7) petticoats under her ankle-length dresses. Those spending the night remember she could hardly be found in the fluffy featherbed mattresses; and they remember too, that she snored and asked to be shaken when it got too loud. Her dresses were homemade from piece goods she bought at the Pendergrass Store (later Clyde Pile's store) at Peter Pender, or from the Boston Store in Ft. Smith. "She was loved!" She lived 62 years on the DeWitt farm before dying of a stroke. She was widowed many years before her death, and lived alone for most of those years. At times, grandsons Roger DeWitt or Bobby DeWitt (sons of Mills DeWitt) lived with her. Sallie Ann Hudson was interred at the King Cemetery, near Charleston, in Franklin County, Arkansas. References
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