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Facts and Events
| Name |
Sarah Winans |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[1] |
16 Jan 1816 |
Milton, Trumbull, Ohio, United States |
| Marriage |
21 Feb 1833 |
to Benjamin Thatcher |
| Death? |
29 Sep 1905 |
Ohltown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States |
| Burial? |
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Eckis Cemetery, Milton, Mahoning, Ohio, United States |
Biography
From: Warren [OH] Daily Tribune
Issue: 23 Sep 1903
MRS. SARAH WINANS THATCHER
Has Nearly Reached Her Ninetieth Birthday - Still a Great Reader and a Letter Writer
Mrs. Sarah Winans Thatcher is one of the oldest and one of the brightest women in this county. She was born in Milton, then Trumbull county and now Mahoning county, January 16, 1816, which date makes her eighty-seven years old. She was married to Benjamin Thatcher February 21, 1833, and they went to housekeeping in Newton township in a log house. There they lived for eight years and then returned to Milton where Mrs. Thatcher lived for thirty-one years. Mr. Thatcher died January 20, 1864 from injuries received from a falling tree.
Mrs. Thatcher lived on the farm twenty-one years and then came to Lordstown to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. James McMahan.
Mrs. Thatcher was the mother of seven children but she has lived to survive all but two, Mrs. McMahan with whom she lives and Mrs. Etta Blackburn of Denver, Colo.
While a young girl Mrs. Thatcher became converted united with the Methodist church at Baldwin's Corners. She always attended church when she was able. She went to the M.E. church at Long's Corners until the church was disbanded and then she attended the Presbyterian church at Orr's Corners.
Mrs. Thatcher had a son, J.W. Thatcher who went through the Civil war and partly on this account and partly from an innate and strong patriotism, she was one of the women who stayed at home and yet helped no small part in winning a union victory. In her neighborhood the women got together at least once a week and sewed for the boys in front and scraped linen lint. Mrs. Thatcher's son had two horses shot from under him, one at the battle of Gettysburg and the winding up of the war at Appomattox, yet he was never seriously wounded in his four years' of service.
Mrs. Thatcher is the kind of a woman who is a good neighbor and one who has countless friends, both young and old. She was most charitable, thoughtful of others even though her own life was clouded by the death of her husband and five children.
Mrs. Thatcher reads the papers every day and is still a great letter writer.
The Tribune hopes she may continue to enjoy a ripe old age for many more years.
References
- ↑ Woolley, Alice Winans Egy (Alice Elizabeth Winans Egy). Winans family genealogy. (Sacramento, California: A.W.E. Woolley, 1987).
7 Sarah Winans b: 16 Jan 1816 d: 1905
+ Benjamin Thatcher b: 29 Jun 1806
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