Sarah Branch

1823 - 1914  (91 years)

• Name	Sarah Branch  [1, 2]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1813  [3]
  Birth	9 Apr 1823	Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	13 Dec 1914	Lansing, Ingham, Michigan   [2]
  Death	15 Dec 1914	Lansing, Ingham, Michigan   [10]
  Burial	Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan   [11, 12]
  Person ID	I27685	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2023

  
  

  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)
  Marriage	3 Oct 1810	Hampshire County, Massachusetts   [1, 13]
  Family ID	F16525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Albert Cyrus Mead,   b. Dec 1825, New York
  Marriage	7 Jan 1847  [9]
  Children	1. Edwin Albert Mead,   b. 18 Mar 1851, Williamston, Ingham, Michigan d. 7 Jun 1932, Albion, Calhoun, Michigan (Age 81 years)   2. Myron O. Mead,   b. 19 Apr 1853, Michigan d. 4 Apr 1930, Mason, Ingham, Michigan (Age 76 years)   3. John Newton Mead,   b. 9 Mar 1855, Williamston, Ingham, Michigan d. 5 Feb 1922, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan (Age 66 years)   4. Alma Caroline Mead,   b. 5 Sep 1861, Michigan d. 19 Dec 1932, Oberlain, Lorain, Ohio (Age 71 years)   5. Charles Mead,   b. 16 May 1867   d. 18 Mar 1933, Ingham County, Michigan (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F16523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2023

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3940] History of Medina County and Ohio, eds. William Henry Perrin, J. J. Battle, and Weston Arthur Godspeed. Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881. [S3943] Michigan, Death Records, 1897-1929, on ancestry.com. [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. [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.