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Sarah Branch

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Name Sarah Branch [1] Alternate birth Abt 1813 [2] Born 9 Apr 1823 Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Gender Female Alternate death 13 Dec 1914 Lansing, Ingham, Michigan [9]
Died 15 Dec 1914 Lansing, Ingham, Michigan [10]
Buried Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan [11, 12]
Person ID I27685 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP Last Modified 10 Apr 2020
Father Elisha Branch, b. 9 Apr 1787, Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts , d. 14 Nov 1856, York, Medina, Ohio
(Age 69 years)
Mother Sarah "Sallie" Thompson, b. 3 Jul 1788, Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts , d. 13 Feb 1867, York, Medina, Ohio
(Age 78 years)
Married 3 Oct 1810 Hampshire County, Massachusetts [1, 13]
Family ID F16525 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Albert Cyrus Mead, b. Abt 1825, Cayuga County, New York Married 7 Jan 1847 [8] Children 1. Nathan Cyrus Mead, b. 9 Nov 1847, Medina County, Ohio , d. 17 Oct 1923, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
(Age 75 years)
+ 2. Edwin Albert Mead, b. 18 Mar 1851, Williamston, Ingham, Michigan , d. 7 Jun 1932, Albion, Calhoun, Michigan
(Age 81 years)
Last Modified 12 Sep 2021 Family ID F16523 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - History of Medina County and Ohio (citation details below), naming her as a daughter of Elisha Branch and Sallie Thompson of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, calls her "Mrs. Albert Mead, in Michigan".
From Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer (citation details below):
Sarah Branch Mead moved from a New York county to the Lansing area with her brood of six, lived in a log cabin and taught her children (plus the neighbors') how to read from newspapers on the walls, before she was able to add a real book to her copy of the Bible and one by Charles Dickens. I have a photo (circa 1903) of her at least 90, wearing her black bombazine highnecked shirtwaist, wearing her gold wedding ring, and reading the Bible. (I don't believe that many women could read at all at that time.) Of course, it paid off. Grandpa Mead became a proofreader for the Detroit Free Press, a Shakespeare scholar and a "reader" in the Christian Science church! He loved to laugh and tell funny stories. I remember the one about the witches in Macbeth.
- History of Medina County and Ohio (citation details below), naming her as a daughter of Elisha Branch and Sallie Thompson of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, calls her "Mrs. Albert Mead, in Michigan".
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Sources - [S3940] History of Medina County and Ohio, eds. William Henry Perrin, J. J. Battle, and Weston Arthur Godspeed. Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881.
- [S3936] Undated letter from Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer, addressed "Dear Marjorie", copy in the possession of Ada Palmer., year only.
- [S3938] Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952, on ancestry.com., place only.
- [S3941] "Mrs. Sarah Mead Dies at Old Age." Lansing State Journal, 15 Dec 1914, p. 12., date, county, and state only.
- [S3942] Vital Records of Worthington, Massachusetts To the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911.
- [S3943] Michigan, Death Records, 1897-1929, on ancestry.com., year only.
- [S3944] Find a Grave page for Elisha Branch.
- [S3929] A History of the Leading Branch Families in America, 1638-1904 by A. E. (Branch) Paulson. Ashtabula, Ohio, 1904.
- [S3943] Michigan, Death Records, 1897-1929, on ancestry.com.
- [S3941] "Mrs. Sarah Mead Dies at Old Age." Lansing State Journal, 15 Dec 1914, p. 12.
- [S3941] "Mrs. Sarah Mead Dies at Old Age." Lansing State Journal, 15 Dec 1914, p. 12., city and state only.
- [S3945] Find a Grave page for Sarah B. Mead.
- [S3929] A History of the Leading Branch Families in America, 1638-1904 by A. E. (Branch) Paulson. Ashtabula, Ohio, 1904., date only.
- [S3940] History of Medina County and Ohio, eds. William Henry Perrin, J. J. Battle, and Weston Arthur Godspeed. Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881.