Ann M Sailor Morris Johnston, daughter of Jacob Sailor & his wife Esther Crow Sailor
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Ann was born in Monroe Co, OH June 28, 1815. The daughter of Jacob Sailor and Esther Crow. Ann died Feb 10, 1902 of paraysis aged 86 years, 7 months and 12 days. Interment took place at Olive Cemetery, Wednesday morning.
She was married to Frederick Morris in 1833 in Elkhart, IN. They immediately moved to the Olive Twp farm where she resided until her death. They were the first settlers in Olive Twp; but the County Atlas gives that honor to Martin Sailor, brother of Anna. This is an error, he was the second arriving in 1834.
Mr Morris died 15 August 1857 and she married Samuel Johnston in 1861 who survives her. Mrs Johnston was the mother of eight children by her first husband, two boys and six girls all of whom are dead but Mrs Margaret Bemiller of Elkhart County and Maria Rushe of Iowa, and George Morris of Washington.
She also adopted several orphans and cared for others until another good home was provided for them. One of those adopted children, Mrs John Holdeman lived in the yard with her. Thus we see the benefit of this
kind old lady.
Oh how we loved to hear her tell us of the Pioneer days. She had a wonderful memory and was so accurate in detail and so charming in style of expression and oft times used the dialect of those early settlers mingled with Indian phrases that made her sketches of Pioneer life so real that we were almost oblivious to the present and thought we were living in the past.
Yes, Grandma Johnston has experienced all the hardships of frontier life surrounded by an unbroken forest with the Indians sulking therein; no roads, no neighbors, no school, no churches--yet she has lived through all this and was an eyewitness to the improvements from time to time and in many of them she was the chief promoter and she lived to see Olive Twp, in the advanced contition it is today and in the evening of her life enjoyed the peace and comfort that the toils and privations of her early work brought to her.
--Unknown, prob Wakarusa newspaper
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Ann was born in Monroe Co, OH June 28, 1815. The daughter of Jacob Sailor and Esther Crow. Ann died Feb 10, 1902 of paraysis aged 86 years, 7 months and 12 days. Interment took place at Olive Cemetery, Wednesday morning.
She was married to Frederick Morris in 1833 in Elkhart, IN. They immediately moved to the Olive Twp farm where she resided until her death. They were the first settlers in Olive Twp; but the County Atlas gives that honor to Martin Sailor, brother of Anna. This is an error, he was the second arriving in 1834.
Mr Morris died 15 August 1857 and she married Samuel Johnston in 1861 who survives her. Mrs Johnston was the mother of eight children by her first husband, two boys and six girls all of whom are dead but Mrs Margaret Bemiller of Elkhart County and Maria Rushe of Iowa, and George Morris of Washington.
She also adopted several orphans and cared for others until another good home was provided for them. One of those adopted children, Mrs John Holdeman lived in the yard with her. Thus we see the benefit of this
kind old lady.
Oh how we loved to hear her tell us of the Pioneer days. She had a wonderful memory and was so accurate in detail and so charming in style of expression and oft times used the dialect of those early settlers mingled with Indian phrases that made her sketches of Pioneer life so real that we were almost oblivious to the present and thought we were living in the past.
Yes, Grandma Johnston has experienced all the hardships of frontier life surrounded by an unbroken forest with the Indians sulking therein; no roads, no neighbors, no school, no churches--yet she has lived through all this and was an eyewitness to the improvements from time to time and in many of them she was the chief promoter and she lived to see Olive Twp, in the advanced contition it is today and in the evening of her life enjoyed the peace and comfort that the toils and privations of her early work brought to her.
--Unknown, prob Wakarusa newspaper
Ann M Sailor Morris Johnston, daughter of Jacob Sailor & his wife Esther Crow Sailor
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Ann was born in Monroe Co, OH June 28, 1815. The daughter of Jacob Sailor and Esther Crow. Ann died Feb 10, 1902 of paraysis aged 86 years, 7 months and 12 days. Interment took place at Olive Cemetery, Wednesday morning.
She was married to Frederick Morris in 1833 in Elkhart, IN. They immediately moved to the Olive Twp farm where she resided until her death. They were the first settlers in Olive Twp; but the County Atlas gives that honor to Martin Sailor, brother of Anna. This is an error, he was the second arriving in 1834.
Mr Morris died 15 August 1857 and she married Samuel Johnston in 1861 who survives her. Mrs Johnston was the mother of eight children by her first husband, two boys and six girls all of whom are dead but Mrs Margaret Bemiller of Elkhart County and Maria Rushe of Iowa, and George Morris of Washington.
She also adopted several orphans and cared for others until another good home was provided for them. One of those adopted children, Mrs John Holdeman lived in the yard with her. Thus we see the benefit of this
kind old lady.
Oh how we loved to hear her tell us of the Pioneer days. She had a wonderful memory and was so accurate in detail and so charming in style of expression and oft times used the dialect of those early settlers mingled with Indian phrases that made her sketches of Pioneer life so real that we were almost oblivious to the present and thought we were living in the past.
Yes, Grandma Johnston has experienced all the hardships of frontier life surrounded by an unbroken forest with the Indians sulking therein; no roads, no neighbors, no school, no churches--yet she has lived through all this and was an eyewitness to the improvements from time to time and in many of them she was the chief promoter and she lived to see Olive Twp, in the advanced contition it is today and in the evening of her life enjoyed the peace and comfort that the toils and privations of her early work brought to her.
--Unknown, prob Wakarusa newspaper
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Ann was born in Monroe Co, OH June 28, 1815. The daughter of Jacob Sailor and Esther Crow. Ann died Feb 10, 1902 of paraysis aged 86 years, 7 months and 12 days. Interment took place at Olive Cemetery, Wednesday morning.
She was married to Frederick Morris in 1833 in Elkhart, IN. They immediately moved to the Olive Twp farm where she resided until her death. They were the first settlers in Olive Twp; but the County Atlas gives that honor to Martin Sailor, brother of Anna. This is an error, he was the second arriving in 1834.
Mr Morris died 15 August 1857 and she married Samuel Johnston in 1861 who survives her. Mrs Johnston was the mother of eight children by her first husband, two boys and six girls all of whom are dead but Mrs Margaret Bemiller of Elkhart County and Maria Rushe of Iowa, and George Morris of Washington.
She also adopted several orphans and cared for others until another good home was provided for them. One of those adopted children, Mrs John Holdeman lived in the yard with her. Thus we see the benefit of this
kind old lady.
Oh how we loved to hear her tell us of the Pioneer days. She had a wonderful memory and was so accurate in detail and so charming in style of expression and oft times used the dialect of those early settlers mingled with Indian phrases that made her sketches of Pioneer life so real that we were almost oblivious to the present and thought we were living in the past.
Yes, Grandma Johnston has experienced all the hardships of frontier life surrounded by an unbroken forest with the Indians sulking therein; no roads, no neighbors, no school, no churches--yet she has lived through all this and was an eyewitness to the improvements from time to time and in many of them she was the chief promoter and she lived to see Olive Twp, in the advanced contition it is today and in the evening of her life enjoyed the peace and comfort that the toils and privations of her early work brought to her.
--Unknown, prob Wakarusa newspaper
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