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Sarah Jane Newbrough
b.9 May 1849 Fort Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States
d.24 Apr 1926 Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States
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m. 1845
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m. 26 Jan 1869
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m. 7 Jan 1877
Facts and Events
Sarah Newbrough was first married to a cowboy by the name of Williams. They had 4 children and he left to go on a cattle drive and never returned. She moved back with her parents but eventually Mr. Calvert, an older widower, became enamored with Sarah and married her. He was the father of five children, all of whom left when he married Sarah except a little girl called Lou. He lived only another 5 years and when he died in 1882 Mrs. Calvert sold the large farm near Cleburne, Texas, left to her by her husband and invested most of the money in worthless oil stock. She used some of it to buy a rooming house in downtown Ft. Worth where she lived until her death never remarrying. She is buried in Mount Olivet cemetery, Alamo section, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas References
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