Person:Sarah Wetmore (7)

During the Civil War, while her husband was away, she and her granddaughter, Jennie Smith, lived with her son Albert Hawley and his wife Sara Wetmore Hawley II in Iowa.

1. ↑ Lillian A. McClelland. Lillian A. McClelland, personal letter dated April 4, 1964, Recipient: H. B. Whitmore, Author Address: Princet. (4 April 1964).
2. ↑ H. B. Whitmore. Blanchard, Iowa, Cemetery Reading, Record Type: Cemetery Marker Reading, Cemetery: Iowa, Blanchard, Second Per. (April, 1997)
   Marker of Sarah Hawley.
3. ↑ Works Projects Administration, Compiler: Ancestry.com. Iowa Graves Registration Survey, Location: Washington, DC, 1930's, Url: ancestry.com/search/db.apsx dbid 4711. (Ancestry.Com)
   v. 4, p. 847, Sarah Hawley, b. 8 Aug 1812, died 21 Aug 1913, Blanchard Cemetery, Blanchard, Colfax Twp., Page Cty.
4. ↑ Compiler: Pat O'Dell. Abstracted Newspaper Index of Page and Taylor Counties, Iowa. (O'Dell's ANI, http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eiataylor/tci48.htm, Accessed 21 April 2006)
   Shenandoah [Iowa] Sentinel Post, 2 September 1913. 29 August 1913.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Death Certificate, Sarah Wetmore Hawley, Record Type: Certificate of Death, Name Of Person: Sarah Whitmore Haw. (29 Aug 1913).
6. ↑ H. B. Whitmore. Blanchard, Iowa, Cemetery Reading, Record Type: Cemetery Marker Reading, Cemetery: Iowa, Blanchard, Second Per. (April, 1997)
   Sarah Hawley marker, 8 August 1812 - 21 August 1913.
7. ↑ Sarah Wetmore Hawley Obituary: Grandma Hawley Had Century of Life. (Shenandoah Sentinel, Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa, 29 August 1913)
   [CM].

   Grandma Hawley Had Century of Life
   Strict Sunday Observances--Watched Erie Canal Built When Was a Child
   Related to Yale Founders
   Born Aug. 8 1812 in New York State -- Tells of Early Experiences and Incidents
   by Mertz Marvin
   One hundred and one years of life--that is the record achieved by Grandma Hawley of College Springs on Aug. 8. Now she is lying ill at the home of hr son, A. W. Hawley. A few weeks ago she fell and broke her limb and recovery is uncertain. But she is still bright and cheeful[sic], and recalls many interesting stories of events during her century of life. [CR] Grandma Hawley was born Aug. 8, 1812 at Livonia, Livingston county N.Y. Her parents wwere Peleg Wetmore and Rebecca Rice. Her mother was descended from a famous colonial family, a granddaughter of Thomas Yale, a brother of the founder of Yale university. The Yales came from Wales to England and thence to America. A brother came to America but returned to England, saying he refused to stay here and be hacked up by the Indians. [CR] Sarah Wetmore (that was Grandma Hawley's maiden name) was the oldest in a family of nine chiildren. The brothers and sisters bore the unusual names of Lucina, Miron [sic], Nore, Monroe, Marinda, Horas, Oren Yale and Orestus. O. C. Wetmore of College Springs is a son of Orestus. [CR] Parents in those days were very strict, especially on the Sabbath day. People went about with drawn faces and children were often whipped for not keeping still on the Sabbath. One man whipped a child to death and was sent to prison. Another acquaintance of Grandma Hawley's chldhood da;ys whipped a cat for catching a mouse on Sunday. Some playmates were whipped for tossing a new ball a few times on Sunday. One of the little girls of the family was doing something of which the mother disapproved one day. The mother said "Rebecca, don't you know this is the Sabbath?" The child answered "Oh dear,m Tabby days come so tick. Can't wink my eyes 'tween Tabby days." The children could only read bible tracts, were taught to sit and be still, to be seen and not heard. They never ate at the table with the grown people. [CR] Bit there are joyful memories as well as doleful ones. The Wetmores lived near Kenisaus Lake, and the children had merry times paddling about on a log. Sometimes the went in a boad. One day Sarah and Lucina and two neighbor girls went out in a leaky boat, and were nearlly drowned. They baled water dilligently and were finally rescued. [CR] When Sarah was six years old she watched the building or the Erie canal near her home. She sat by the canal by the hour and watched the boats and teh workmen. Before that time everything had been hauled from Buffalo, one hundred miles away, by stage. [CR] In those days they raised flax and spun and wove it. Grandma Hawley has spun many pounds of yarn and thread. She tells of hitchling flax that is, beating it over a board. [CR] In those days it wass thought that women needed no education--they were made to work and as soon as the girls were big enought to be of much help schooling must cease. [CR] Although most of their neighbors and friends kept slaves the Wetmores did not. Although the abolition sentiment was in its fancy [sic] the Wetmores did not approve of ownership of human beings. [CR] When Sarah Wetmore was fourteen years old her mother died and Sarah and her youngest brother went to live with an uncle in Ohio. On Thanksgiving Day 1825 she was married to Marquis Adam Hawley in Lenoway county, Mich. [CR] Grandma Hawley has had three childrenm, two sons and one daughter, Lucina, Jerome and A. W. Hawley. Lucina died in 1867 leaving a daughter, Jennie Smith, who now lives in Bconlake, Wash. Jerome died in 1894, leaving a son and daughter now in Indiana. The youngest son, A. W. Hawley, lives in College Springs, and Grandma has lived with them for several years. A. W. Hawley has two sons and one daughter, Mace in New Jersey, Elihu Yale in Washington and Mrs. Veda Loudon of College Springs. Altogether there are six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and three great, gread grandchildren. [CR] A. W. Hawley came to College Springs in 1866. In a short time he moved to a farm east of Blanchard. In the winter of 1867 Grandma came to visit them. In 1868 A. W. Hawley and family moved to a farm near Willsburg and Grandpa and Grandma Hawley came to live with them, bringing with them their little granddaughter. In 1875 they moved to a farm west of Tarkio and there Grandpa Hawley died, in 1878. In 1884 the Hawleys moved to Blanchard, in 1905 to Shenandoah and in 1906 to College Springs where they have lived ever since. [Grandma Hawley has beeen blind the past year, but retained escellent health till a few years ago. Now she is quite feeble and her recent accident leaves her in a precarious condition.

8. ↑ Father's Name: Peleg Whitmore, birthplace unknown
   Mother's Name: Rebeca Whitmore, birthplace unknown
   Cause of Death: Compound fracture of Ulna, Contributory: Senility
   Occupation: Retired housekeeper
   Family information given by A[rthur] W. Hawley [son]
   Place of burial listed as Maple Hill Cemetery, College Springs
   Date of burial listed as 29 Aug 1915 [sic]