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- U.S., Find a Graveā¢ Index, 1600s-Current
Name: Sarah Jacks
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 20 May 1758
Birth Place: Lunenburg County, Virginia, United States of America
Death Date: 25 Jul 1849
Death Place: Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee, United States of America
Cemetery: Cowan Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse: William Pearson
Children:
Kindred Pearson
Sarah Bobo
Elizabeth Dillard
Isaac Jacks
Thomas Green Pearson
Lucretia Eakin
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116077791/sarah-jacks
Memorial ID 116077791
Sarah Jones Jacks Pearson (1758-1849) the widow of Edward Jacks, became the wife of William Pearson (1761-1844).
Sarah lost three brothers and two brothers-in-law in the Revolutionary War.
After raising nine children however, one of whom died in infancy, William and Sarah later divorced with the first official notice of their separation appearing in Union County, SC, Deed Book L, p 249, dated 22 Feb 1812 when William migrated shortly thereafter to Bedford County, TN.
Sarah remained in SC for a while, but later also moved to Bedford County, TN and lived the later part of her life with her youngest daughter, Lucretia, in Shelbyville, TN.
For many years the grave site of Sarah Jones Jacks Pearson remained a mystery. However, much credit is due Margie Scudder who in April 2014 located the above-ground "altar-tomb" of Sarah Jones Jacks Pearson among many old graves in the rear of the Cowan Cemetery adjacent to the Old City Cemetery in Shelbyville, TN.
NOTE: Although her date of death is correct, from more recent records, there appears to be an error in the information furnished to the stonecutter for the inscription on Sarah's tomb which denotes the length of her life as "Aged 85 Years, two Months, and three Days." From more recent records, her birthday was recorded as May 20, 1758, as noted above, making her age 91 at death.
Gravesite Details
Sacred to the Memory of Sarah Pearson Who departed this life 25 July 1849. (See also Note above.)
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