SARAH ELIZABETH (PECK) MITCHELL
Birth and Parents Sarah Elizabeth was born in Mason county, Ky., on the 9th day of November, 1826, to James and Eunice (Knight) Peck. Her parents both died within days of one another from cholera in 1832.
In his research on the Lincolns/Harlans/Pecks, Tom Lincoln reported that after Sarah Elizabeth and her siblings were orphaned, Dr. Lennox M. Knight, brother of Eunice, took the girls under his care. He eventually settled in Putnam County, Indiana.
Siblings Little is known about Sarah's early life, but one of her sisters, Ann Eliza Harlan, was married to a Senator, and their daughter, Mary Eunice, married Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, so much information about Sarah's family comes from published writings about Ann Eliza.
Sarah Elizabeth had six siblings. These are the names gathered to date (02-2015):
Mary Jane Peck was born 09/12/1814 (birth year in question) and died 05/02/1906. She married James Law on October 14, 1857 in Henry County, Iowa.
Malinda Peck was born in 1823 in Kentucky, and died January 24, 1900 in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. Her grave is unmarked. She married Ellison E. Skinner July 27. 1842, in Fleming County, KY.
Matilda Peck (twin to Malinda) was born in 1823, Kentucky. She died November 07, 1899, in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. She married Alexander W. Ogle August 11, 1842 in Lewis County, KY.
Ann Eliza Peck was born 1824 in Maysville, Mason County, KY, and died September 04, 1884 in Fortress Monroe, Point Comfort, VA. She married Senator James Harlan November 09, 1845 in Greencastle, Putnam County, IN.
Sister (name unknown) Peck was born between 1824 and 1832.
Brother (name unknown) Peck was born before 1832 in Kentucky. He was married to a woman born in Kentucky, and they had a son, Harlan Peck, who was born about 1864 in Kentucky and who lived with the Harlans in 1880.
Marriage George Mitchell and Sarah Elizabeth Peck were married by the Rev. Mr. Gardner in Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, on the 16th day of March, 1848.
On the Move They moved to Cincinnati in time for the birth of their daughter, Charlotte, in January of 1849 (died at age 7). They moved to Indianapolis, after the birth of their second daughter, Rosabell in September of 1850.
Their son, John Francis was born in Indianapolis in 1852, followed by their twin boys, Richard Harlan and his brother (name unknown) in 1854. Richard's twin died at age four and a half months. At some point after the boys were born they moved to Iowa. They are recorded in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, in 1860, with their children: Rosabelle, John, and [Richard] Harlan. The couple did have a sixth child, stillborn, name, gender, place and date of birth/death is not known.
Settlers: From Iowa, George and Sarah moved to Kansas, settling in Baxter Springs, about 1871--they are listed as pioneers of that town, as George was working as an Indian agent.
In October of 1870, when members of the Society of Friends were charged with making an assessment of the conditions of the Indian tribes in Kansas, an observation noted by one of the party was made in regard to Sarah: "The Agent's wife speaks very highly of [the women of the Seneca and Quapaw tribe's] good qualities & their anxiety to learn, in cooking making clothing &c- She had an Indian woman assisting her in her household duties- She seems to take a real interest in the welfare of these people & is certainly a superior lady- I am persuaded that she has a deep Christian solicitude for their real improvement."
They would live in Kansas the rest of their lives. Their son Richard appears with them in the 1875 and 1880 census records for Cherokee County, Kansas. In the latter census, it was reported that Sarah Elizabeth had a "nervous debility".
Two months later, she departed this life on the Valier Reservation in Cherokee county, Kansas, on the 2nd day of August, 1880, aged 54 years.
Obituary:
DIED—Near Baxter Springs, Kansas, Monday, August 2, 1880, of cancer of the womb, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Sarah E., wife of George Mitchell, elder brother of the editor of THE DEMOCRAT.
Mrs. M. was born near Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, about the year 1827, where her parents died of cholera in 1833. Left an orphan in the tender years of her life, she was watched and cared for by friends and relatives, and developed into a beautiful and intelligent woman, the pride and boast of orphaned sisters and brother. About the year 1848 she was married at Maysville, Ky., to George Mitchell, then a citizen of Cincinnati. Five children were born to them, the last twins in this city in 1855, three of whom remain to mourn the loss of a kind, generous and affectionate mother and earnest and most sacred friend.
Her husband, as old age is creeping on, is left alone, without solace or comfort when it is most needed. With tottering steps, and with the love of his heart away on the shining shores of the New Jerusalem, must he grope his way in the gloom and sorrow that surrounds the one left behind. We tender the afflicted family our deepest and warmest sympathy, and say to them, be of good cheer, she for whom you now mourn rests in peace, and has received the reward of her life—a true woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an earnest and zealous Christian.
From The Hancock Democrat 08-12-1880 page 2
Note: Great appreciation is extended to Pat Ryan White for her research on the Peck siblings.
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Birth and Parents Sarah Elizabeth was born in Mason county, Ky., on the 9th day of November, 1826, to James and Eunice (Knight) Peck. Her parents both died within days of one another from cholera in 1832.
In his research on the Lincolns/Harlans/Pecks, Tom Lincoln reported that after Sarah Elizabeth and her siblings were orphaned, Dr. Lennox M. Knight, brother of Eunice, took the girls under his care. He eventually settled in Putnam County, Indiana.
Siblings Little is known about Sarah's early life, but one of her sisters, Ann Eliza Harlan, was married to a Senator, and their daughter, Mary Eunice, married Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, so much information about Sarah's family comes from published writings about Ann Eliza.
Sarah Elizabeth had six siblings. These are the names gathered to date (02-2015):
Mary Jane Peck was born 09/12/1814 (birth year in question) and died 05/02/1906. She married James Law on October 14, 1857 in Henry County, Iowa.
Malinda Peck was born in 1823 in Kentucky, and died January 24, 1900 in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. Her grave is unmarked. She married Ellison E. Skinner July 27. 1842, in Fleming County, KY.
Matilda Peck (twin to Malinda) was born in 1823, Kentucky. She died November 07, 1899, in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. She married Alexander W. Ogle August 11, 1842 in Lewis County, KY.
Ann Eliza Peck was born 1824 in Maysville, Mason County, KY, and died September 04, 1884 in Fortress Monroe, Point Comfort, VA. She married Senator James Harlan November 09, 1845 in Greencastle, Putnam County, IN.
Sister (name unknown) Peck was born between 1824 and 1832.
Brother (name unknown) Peck was born before 1832 in Kentucky. He was married to a woman born in Kentucky, and they had a son, Harlan Peck, who was born about 1864 in Kentucky and who lived with the Harlans in 1880.
Marriage George Mitchell and Sarah Elizabeth Peck were married by the Rev. Mr. Gardner in Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, on the 16th day of March, 1848.
On the Move They moved to Cincinnati in time for the birth of their daughter, Charlotte, in January of 1849 (died at age 7). They moved to Indianapolis, after the birth of their second daughter, Rosabell in September of 1850.
Their son, John Francis was born in Indianapolis in 1852, followed by their twin boys, Richard Harlan and his brother (name unknown) in 1854. Richard's twin died at age four and a half months. At some point after the boys were born they moved to Iowa. They are recorded in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, in 1860, with their children: Rosabelle, John, and [Richard] Harlan. The couple did have a sixth child, stillborn, name, gender, place and date of birth/death is not known.
Settlers: From Iowa, George and Sarah moved to Kansas, settling in Baxter Springs, about 1871--they are listed as pioneers of that town, as George was working as an Indian agent.
In October of 1870, when members of the Society of Friends were charged with making an assessment of the conditions of the Indian tribes in Kansas, an observation noted by one of the party was made in regard to Sarah: "The Agent's wife speaks very highly of [the women of the Seneca and Quapaw tribe's] good qualities & their anxiety to learn, in cooking making clothing &c- She had an Indian woman assisting her in her household duties- She seems to take a real interest in the welfare of these people & is certainly a superior lady- I am persuaded that she has a deep Christian solicitude for their real improvement."
They would live in Kansas the rest of their lives. Their son Richard appears with them in the 1875 and 1880 census records for Cherokee County, Kansas. In the latter census, it was reported that Sarah Elizabeth had a "nervous debility".
Two months later, she departed this life on the Valier Reservation in Cherokee county, Kansas, on the 2nd day of August, 1880, aged 54 years.
Obituary:
DIED—Near Baxter Springs, Kansas, Monday, August 2, 1880, of cancer of the womb, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Sarah E., wife of George Mitchell, elder brother of the editor of THE DEMOCRAT.
Mrs. M. was born near Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, about the year 1827, where her parents died of cholera in 1833. Left an orphan in the tender years of her life, she was watched and cared for by friends and relatives, and developed into a beautiful and intelligent woman, the pride and boast of orphaned sisters and brother. About the year 1848 she was married at Maysville, Ky., to George Mitchell, then a citizen of Cincinnati. Five children were born to them, the last twins in this city in 1855, three of whom remain to mourn the loss of a kind, generous and affectionate mother and earnest and most sacred friend.
Her husband, as old age is creeping on, is left alone, without solace or comfort when it is most needed. With tottering steps, and with the love of his heart away on the shining shores of the New Jerusalem, must he grope his way in the gloom and sorrow that surrounds the one left behind. We tender the afflicted family our deepest and warmest sympathy, and say to them, be of good cheer, she for whom you now mourn rests in peace, and has received the reward of her life—a true woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an earnest and zealous Christian.
From The Hancock Democrat 08-12-1880 page 2
Note: Great appreciation is extended to Pat Ryan White for her research on the Peck siblings.
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SARAH ELIZABETH (PECK) MITCHELL
Birth and Parents Sarah Elizabeth was born in Mason county, Ky., on the 9th day of November, 1826, to James and Eunice (Knight) Peck. Her parents both died within days of one another from cholera in 1832.
In his research on the Lincolns/Harlans/Pecks, Tom Lincoln reported that after Sarah Elizabeth and her siblings were orphaned, Dr. Lennox M. Knight, brother of Eunice, took the girls under his care. He eventually settled in Putnam County, Indiana.
Siblings Little is known about Sarah's early life, but one of her sisters, Ann Eliza Harlan, was married to a Senator, and their daughter, Mary Eunice, married Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, so much information about Sarah's family comes from published writings about Ann Eliza.
Sarah Elizabeth had six siblings. These are the names gathered to date (02-2015):
Mary Jane Peck was born 09/12/1814 (birth year in question) and died 05/02/1906. She married James Law on October 14, 1857 in Henry County, Iowa.
Malinda Peck was born in 1823 in Kentucky, and died January 24, 1900 in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. Her grave is unmarked. She married Ellison E. Skinner July 27. 1842, in Fleming County, KY.
Matilda Peck (twin to Malinda) was born in 1823, Kentucky. She died November 07, 1899, in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. She married Alexander W. Ogle August 11, 1842 in Lewis County, KY.
Ann Eliza Peck was born 1824 in Maysville, Mason County, KY, and died September 04, 1884 in Fortress Monroe, Point Comfort, VA. She married Senator James Harlan November 09, 1845 in Greencastle, Putnam County, IN.
Sister (name unknown) Peck was born between 1824 and 1832.
Brother (name unknown) Peck was born before 1832 in Kentucky. He was married to a woman born in Kentucky, and they had a son, Harlan Peck, who was born about 1864 in Kentucky and who lived with the Harlans in 1880.
Marriage George Mitchell and Sarah Elizabeth Peck were married by the Rev. Mr. Gardner in Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, on the 16th day of March, 1848.
On the Move They moved to Cincinnati in time for the birth of their daughter, Charlotte, in January of 1849 (died at age 7). They moved to Indianapolis, after the birth of their second daughter, Rosabell in September of 1850.
Their son, John Francis was born in Indianapolis in 1852, followed by their twin boys, Richard Harlan and his brother (name unknown) in 1854. Richard's twin died at age four and a half months. At some point after the boys were born they moved to Iowa. They are recorded in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, in 1860, with their children: Rosabelle, John, and [Richard] Harlan. The couple did have a sixth child, stillborn, name, gender, place and date of birth/death is not known.
Settlers: From Iowa, George and Sarah moved to Kansas, settling in Baxter Springs, about 1871--they are listed as pioneers of that town, as George was working as an Indian agent.
In October of 1870, when members of the Society of Friends were charged with making an assessment of the conditions of the Indian tribes in Kansas, an observation noted by one of the party was made in regard to Sarah: "The Agent's wife speaks very highly of [the women of the Seneca and Quapaw tribe's] good qualities & their anxiety to learn, in cooking making clothing &c- She had an Indian woman assisting her in her household duties- She seems to take a real interest in the welfare of these people & is certainly a superior lady- I am persuaded that she has a deep Christian solicitude for their real improvement."
They would live in Kansas the rest of their lives. Their son Richard appears with them in the 1875 and 1880 census records for Cherokee County, Kansas. In the latter census, it was reported that Sarah Elizabeth had a "nervous debility".
Two months later, she departed this life on the Valier Reservation in Cherokee county, Kansas, on the 2nd day of August, 1880, aged 54 years.
Obituary:
DIED—Near Baxter Springs, Kansas, Monday, August 2, 1880, of cancer of the womb, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Sarah E., wife of George Mitchell, elder brother of the editor of THE DEMOCRAT.
Mrs. M. was born near Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, about the year 1827, where her parents died of cholera in 1833. Left an orphan in the tender years of her life, she was watched and cared for by friends and relatives, and developed into a beautiful and intelligent woman, the pride and boast of orphaned sisters and brother. About the year 1848 she was married at Maysville, Ky., to George Mitchell, then a citizen of Cincinnati. Five children were born to them, the last twins in this city in 1855, three of whom remain to mourn the loss of a kind, generous and affectionate mother and earnest and most sacred friend.
Her husband, as old age is creeping on, is left alone, without solace or comfort when it is most needed. With tottering steps, and with the love of his heart away on the shining shores of the New Jerusalem, must he grope his way in the gloom and sorrow that surrounds the one left behind. We tender the afflicted family our deepest and warmest sympathy, and say to them, be of good cheer, she for whom you now mourn rests in peace, and has received the reward of her life—a true woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an earnest and zealous Christian.
From The Hancock Democrat 08-12-1880 page 2
Note: Great appreciation is extended to Pat Ryan White for her research on the Peck siblings.
~~mjp~~
Birth and Parents Sarah Elizabeth was born in Mason county, Ky., on the 9th day of November, 1826, to James and Eunice (Knight) Peck. Her parents both died within days of one another from cholera in 1832.
In his research on the Lincolns/Harlans/Pecks, Tom Lincoln reported that after Sarah Elizabeth and her siblings were orphaned, Dr. Lennox M. Knight, brother of Eunice, took the girls under his care. He eventually settled in Putnam County, Indiana.
Siblings Little is known about Sarah's early life, but one of her sisters, Ann Eliza Harlan, was married to a Senator, and their daughter, Mary Eunice, married Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, so much information about Sarah's family comes from published writings about Ann Eliza.
Sarah Elizabeth had six siblings. These are the names gathered to date (02-2015):
Mary Jane Peck was born 09/12/1814 (birth year in question) and died 05/02/1906. She married James Law on October 14, 1857 in Henry County, Iowa.
Malinda Peck was born in 1823 in Kentucky, and died January 24, 1900 in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. Her grave is unmarked. She married Ellison E. Skinner July 27. 1842, in Fleming County, KY.
Matilda Peck (twin to Malinda) was born in 1823, Kentucky. She died November 07, 1899, in Greenfield, Hancock County, IN. She married Alexander W. Ogle August 11, 1842 in Lewis County, KY.
Ann Eliza Peck was born 1824 in Maysville, Mason County, KY, and died September 04, 1884 in Fortress Monroe, Point Comfort, VA. She married Senator James Harlan November 09, 1845 in Greencastle, Putnam County, IN.
Sister (name unknown) Peck was born between 1824 and 1832.
Brother (name unknown) Peck was born before 1832 in Kentucky. He was married to a woman born in Kentucky, and they had a son, Harlan Peck, who was born about 1864 in Kentucky and who lived with the Harlans in 1880.
Marriage George Mitchell and Sarah Elizabeth Peck were married by the Rev. Mr. Gardner in Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, on the 16th day of March, 1848.
On the Move They moved to Cincinnati in time for the birth of their daughter, Charlotte, in January of 1849 (died at age 7). They moved to Indianapolis, after the birth of their second daughter, Rosabell in September of 1850.
Their son, John Francis was born in Indianapolis in 1852, followed by their twin boys, Richard Harlan and his brother (name unknown) in 1854. Richard's twin died at age four and a half months. At some point after the boys were born they moved to Iowa. They are recorded in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, in 1860, with their children: Rosabelle, John, and [Richard] Harlan. The couple did have a sixth child, stillborn, name, gender, place and date of birth/death is not known.
Settlers: From Iowa, George and Sarah moved to Kansas, settling in Baxter Springs, about 1871--they are listed as pioneers of that town, as George was working as an Indian agent.
In October of 1870, when members of the Society of Friends were charged with making an assessment of the conditions of the Indian tribes in Kansas, an observation noted by one of the party was made in regard to Sarah: "The Agent's wife speaks very highly of [the women of the Seneca and Quapaw tribe's] good qualities & their anxiety to learn, in cooking making clothing &c- She had an Indian woman assisting her in her household duties- She seems to take a real interest in the welfare of these people & is certainly a superior lady- I am persuaded that she has a deep Christian solicitude for their real improvement."
They would live in Kansas the rest of their lives. Their son Richard appears with them in the 1875 and 1880 census records for Cherokee County, Kansas. In the latter census, it was reported that Sarah Elizabeth had a "nervous debility".
Two months later, she departed this life on the Valier Reservation in Cherokee county, Kansas, on the 2nd day of August, 1880, aged 54 years.
Obituary:
DIED—Near Baxter Springs, Kansas, Monday, August 2, 1880, of cancer of the womb, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Sarah E., wife of George Mitchell, elder brother of the editor of THE DEMOCRAT.
Mrs. M. was born near Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, about the year 1827, where her parents died of cholera in 1833. Left an orphan in the tender years of her life, she was watched and cared for by friends and relatives, and developed into a beautiful and intelligent woman, the pride and boast of orphaned sisters and brother. About the year 1848 she was married at Maysville, Ky., to George Mitchell, then a citizen of Cincinnati. Five children were born to them, the last twins in this city in 1855, three of whom remain to mourn the loss of a kind, generous and affectionate mother and earnest and most sacred friend.
Her husband, as old age is creeping on, is left alone, without solace or comfort when it is most needed. With tottering steps, and with the love of his heart away on the shining shores of the New Jerusalem, must he grope his way in the gloom and sorrow that surrounds the one left behind. We tender the afflicted family our deepest and warmest sympathy, and say to them, be of good cheer, she for whom you now mourn rests in peace, and has received the reward of her life—a true woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an earnest and zealous Christian.
From The Hancock Democrat 08-12-1880 page 2
Note: Great appreciation is extended to Pat Ryan White for her research on the Peck siblings.
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