Person:Sarah Miller (46)

From Brolliar-Orth research as recorded on USGenWeb

1. D: I00467
2. Name: Sarah Ann Jane MILLER
3. Sex: F
4. Birth: 1819 in Rumley, Hampshire County, Virginia
5. Death: 11 JAN 1896 in Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa
6. Fact 3: late in life she moved to Lamoni, Iowa with family.
7. Fact 4: As a member of RLDS faith move to Lamoni might have been a Gathering effort.
8. _ELEC: 1859 Widow & 5 children went west by covered wagon to Nebraska
9. _ELEC: 1846 Born in Virginia, she had moved to Ohio by time of 2nd Marriage.
10. Note:

   Sarah has been given two middle names because in some records Ann is shown, although Jane seems to be used more and is on her tombstone. Before she married William S. Brolliar, Sarah had been married before, to a man named Castor. They had a son, Tobias, who later became superintendent of the Burlington Railroad and was located in Lincoln, Nebraska.
   When Sarah was widowed ( for the 2nd time ? ) by William in 1858, she had five children left to raise alone. The Brolliars had often moved westward as a group in the past, as in the move from Pennsylvania to Ohio and from there to Iowa. So she went with other Brolliars out futher west into Nebraska about 1863. Moving herself, her children, and thier possessions by wagon train must have been difficult. Thier party was led by a Captain Hunt and they settled in the bottom lands along the wandering Blue River in the southeastern part of Nebraska.
   " It has been told that when families arrived in the valley of the Blue, many built temporary quarters in dugouts or soddy homes along the river. Think of what Sarah Jane did, a single woman with five children in the wilderness. Tobias would have been the oldest, with Daniel about 15 or so next, but the other three were not yet in thier teens. Samuel, when he was 85, told of how they struggled in the new country. The Pawnee Indians traipsed up and down the valley. Although not really hostile, they did steal and beg from those who had little enough themselves".
   " There were two forts to go to in times of Indian trouble. One fort was in Nebraska City, and the other was in Beatrice. Sarah didn't like to disrupt her daily routine and gather up her family to make the trip to the forts. She had one protection. It is said that when Indians came near, She'd raise up from her hoeing, swing her hoe on high, and with a screaming voice, nag, curse and yell at those savages until they would scurry away from the sound of her voice".
   Sarah was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. As were a number of other Brolliars in the Valley of the Blue in Nebraska, including her son William Henry. The family did move to Lamoni, Iowa, for several years, that being a gathering place for the RLDS faithful at that time. Sarah was buried there after she died in 1896.

Marriage 1 William S. BROLLIAR b: 17 JAN 1825 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania

   * Married: 1846 in Ashland County, Ohio
   * Marriage Ending Status: Death of one spouse

Children

  1. Has Children William Henry BROLLIAR b: 1 AUG 1854 in Perryville, Ashland County, Ohio

1. ↑ 1880 Federal Census of Saline Co., Nebraska.

   Her age is listed as 57
   
   She is living with her son, William and his wife, Emma J. Her parents were from Germany.

2.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (TM). (July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996).