MAJOR brick wall.
Sarah WILKS / WILKES, b. 15 May 1840, Tipton County, Indiana, Cause of Death:
stroke, d. 12 Sep 1918, Oak or Elk, Nebraska, Buried: Clay Center, Nebraska.
Married to John Wolford, son of Martin Wolford and Sally Harman.
Sarah has been illusive. Her parents do not appear in any Tipton county
census and her own cesus replies state she was born in Tipton. (State
records were not required then.) The 1900 Nebraska census states her father
was born in Pennsylvania and her mother was born in Kentucky. A newspaper
article leads to the idea she was orphaned and raised in the house of Julia
(Wolford) and William Wimer. Perhaps that is where her future husband John
met her.
The few things we know is John and Sarah moved to Clay County, NE in March of
1876 to a farm East of Harvard, Nebraska. Then, they moved to a farm 3 miles
east of Clay Center. She had several children, worked on the farm, and died
of a stroke in Oak or Elk, Nebraska, in the home of her daughter. The death
certificate was written with the usual scribble of the medicine community.
Her obituary states she was ill for several years. (Partially paralized,
maybe?)
I have a lot about their children and John Wolford's side. Just that Sarah
has been one stubling brick after another.
Regards,
Diane
Researching: Wolford, Harman, Briggs, Wilks, Hayes, Bowling, Whitlam,
Flannery, Schenk, Dyer, Burton, Bauder/Bader, Hardendorf, Barnum, Clark,
Keith, Finch
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