After the death of her father Aaron Brooks in 1854... and remarriage of her mother Lucinda Ovitt Brooks Pinney, in 1857 (who had begun having additional children with her new husband), it appears that Sarah Jane was largely on her own.
Her two older brothers, Allen and Joel, are found working in the Adirondack lumber camps; her older sister, Rachel, had also married (by 1858, or possibly 1859). With little to no support from her family, she soon took a job ... working as a domestic... and crossed paths with the man she would marry first (father of her eldest child, who later became known as Walter Payne).
In the 1860 Federal Census, Sarah and Edward Z C Judson are in the same household, he as a guest and she as the household domestic.
Shortly after the census was recorded, according to recollections of a witness (whose comments about E Z C Judson aka Ned Buntline, including his drinking and impulsive behavior, were printed in a Troy, NY newspaper): to the many who would recall "the giving of a grand dinner party to a Miss Brooks, "Mrs. Buntline" No. 3, at Wilson's Hotel..." and noting that, while he spent lavishly, he paid poorly.
Apparently following a lavish and spectacular courtship, like many of his wives, Sarah Brooks was married, pregnant and abandoned in quick succession by a man more than twice her age. She gave birth to their son the following June. Nor was Ned unaware of the off-spring, as comments in a letter to a local friend showed, when he asked whether or not the boy bore any resemblance to himself.
Their son, Walter was nearly four and a half years old when Sarah Jane married her second husband, William H Payne (who was born in Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, and whose family emigrated first to Canada, then came to the Adirondacks). The Payne surname was extended to her son Walter and, by some accounts, William Payne raised the boy at though he were his own. There is some suggestion, however, that not all went smoothly...
The 1880 census... following the death of Walter's mother and quick remarriage of his step-father ... is absent Walter's presence. On the other hand, he would have been a young man of nineteen at the time, and may simply have set out to make his own way. He does not appear again on record in Indian Lake until his marriage in 1886.
Sarah Jane Brooks and William Payne had eight children together but she died of complications following the birth of her youngest son, William Jr, who (according to the family Bible) died shortly following his birth. Sarah's death is recorded in the 1880 Mortality Schedules (of deaths within the past year), filed at Lake Pleasant (county seat of Hamilton County), NY, in which cause of death was listed as convulsions.
After Sarah's death, William Payne thereafter married twice more, leaving a legacy of descendants throughout the area.
Her two older brothers, Allen and Joel, are found working in the Adirondack lumber camps; her older sister, Rachel, had also married (by 1858, or possibly 1859). With little to no support from her family, she soon took a job ... working as a domestic... and crossed paths with the man she would marry first (father of her eldest child, who later became known as Walter Payne).
In the 1860 Federal Census, Sarah and Edward Z C Judson are in the same household, he as a guest and she as the household domestic.
Shortly after the census was recorded, according to recollections of a witness (whose comments about E Z C Judson aka Ned Buntline, including his drinking and impulsive behavior, were printed in a Troy, NY newspaper): to the many who would recall "the giving of a grand dinner party to a Miss Brooks, "Mrs. Buntline" No. 3, at Wilson's Hotel..." and noting that, while he spent lavishly, he paid poorly.
Apparently following a lavish and spectacular courtship, like many of his wives, Sarah Brooks was married, pregnant and abandoned in quick succession by a man more than twice her age. She gave birth to their son the following June. Nor was Ned unaware of the off-spring, as comments in a letter to a local friend showed, when he asked whether or not the boy bore any resemblance to himself.
Their son, Walter was nearly four and a half years old when Sarah Jane married her second husband, William H Payne (who was born in Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, and whose family emigrated first to Canada, then came to the Adirondacks). The Payne surname was extended to her son Walter and, by some accounts, William Payne raised the boy at though he were his own. There is some suggestion, however, that not all went smoothly...
The 1880 census... following the death of Walter's mother and quick remarriage of his step-father ... is absent Walter's presence. On the other hand, he would have been a young man of nineteen at the time, and may simply have set out to make his own way. He does not appear again on record in Indian Lake until his marriage in 1886.
Sarah Jane Brooks and William Payne had eight children together but she died of complications following the birth of her youngest son, William Jr, who (according to the family Bible) died shortly following his birth. Sarah's death is recorded in the 1880 Mortality Schedules (of deaths within the past year), filed at Lake Pleasant (county seat of Hamilton County), NY, in which cause of death was listed as convulsions.
After Sarah's death, William Payne thereafter married twice more, leaving a legacy of descendants throughout the area.
After the death of her father Aaron Brooks in 1854... and remarriage of her mother Lucinda Ovitt Brooks Pinney, in 1857 (who had begun having additional children with her new husband), it appears that Sarah Jane was largely on her own.
Her two older brothers, Allen and Joel, are found working in the Adirondack lumber camps; her older sister, Rachel, had also married (by 1858, or possibly 1859). With little to no support from her family, she soon took a job ... working as a domestic... and crossed paths with the man she would marry first (father of her eldest child, who later became known as Walter Payne).
In the 1860 Federal Census, Sarah and Edward Z C Judson are in the same household, he as a guest and she as the household domestic.
Shortly after the census was recorded, according to recollections of a witness (whose comments about E Z C Judson aka Ned Buntline, including his drinking and impulsive behavior, were printed in a Troy, NY newspaper): to the many who would recall "the giving of a grand dinner party to a Miss Brooks, "Mrs. Buntline" No. 3, at Wilson's Hotel..." and noting that, while he spent lavishly, he paid poorly.
Apparently following a lavish and spectacular courtship, like many of his wives, Sarah Brooks was married, pregnant and abandoned in quick succession by a man more than twice her age. She gave birth to their son the following June. Nor was Ned unaware of the off-spring, as comments in a letter to a local friend showed, when he asked whether or not the boy bore any resemblance to himself.
Their son, Walter was nearly four and a half years old when Sarah Jane married her second husband, William H Payne (who was born in Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, and whose family emigrated first to Canada, then came to the Adirondacks). The Payne surname was extended to her son Walter and, by some accounts, William Payne raised the boy at though he were his own. There is some suggestion, however, that not all went smoothly...
The 1880 census... following the death of Walter's mother and quick remarriage of his step-father ... is absent Walter's presence. On the other hand, he would have been a young man of nineteen at the time, and may simply have set out to make his own way. He does not appear again on record in Indian Lake until his marriage in 1886.
Sarah Jane Brooks and William Payne had eight children together but she died of complications following the birth of her youngest son, William Jr, who (according to the family Bible) died shortly following his birth. Sarah's death is recorded in the 1880 Mortality Schedules (of deaths within the past year), filed at Lake Pleasant (county seat of Hamilton County), NY, in which cause of death was listed as convulsions.
After Sarah's death, William Payne thereafter married twice more, leaving a legacy of descendants throughout the area.
Her two older brothers, Allen and Joel, are found working in the Adirondack lumber camps; her older sister, Rachel, had also married (by 1858, or possibly 1859). With little to no support from her family, she soon took a job ... working as a domestic... and crossed paths with the man she would marry first (father of her eldest child, who later became known as Walter Payne).
In the 1860 Federal Census, Sarah and Edward Z C Judson are in the same household, he as a guest and she as the household domestic.
Shortly after the census was recorded, according to recollections of a witness (whose comments about E Z C Judson aka Ned Buntline, including his drinking and impulsive behavior, were printed in a Troy, NY newspaper): to the many who would recall "the giving of a grand dinner party to a Miss Brooks, "Mrs. Buntline" No. 3, at Wilson's Hotel..." and noting that, while he spent lavishly, he paid poorly.
Apparently following a lavish and spectacular courtship, like many of his wives, Sarah Brooks was married, pregnant and abandoned in quick succession by a man more than twice her age. She gave birth to their son the following June. Nor was Ned unaware of the off-spring, as comments in a letter to a local friend showed, when he asked whether or not the boy bore any resemblance to himself.
Their son, Walter was nearly four and a half years old when Sarah Jane married her second husband, William H Payne (who was born in Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, and whose family emigrated first to Canada, then came to the Adirondacks). The Payne surname was extended to her son Walter and, by some accounts, William Payne raised the boy at though he were his own. There is some suggestion, however, that not all went smoothly...
The 1880 census... following the death of Walter's mother and quick remarriage of his step-father ... is absent Walter's presence. On the other hand, he would have been a young man of nineteen at the time, and may simply have set out to make his own way. He does not appear again on record in Indian Lake until his marriage in 1886.
Sarah Jane Brooks and William Payne had eight children together but she died of complications following the birth of her youngest son, William Jr, who (according to the family Bible) died shortly following his birth. Sarah's death is recorded in the 1880 Mortality Schedules (of deaths within the past year), filed at Lake Pleasant (county seat of Hamilton County), NY, in which cause of death was listed as convulsions.
After Sarah's death, William Payne thereafter married twice more, leaving a legacy of descendants throughout the area.
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