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Sarah Vanderbilt “Sadie” <I>Schwab</I> Knight Percival

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Sarah Vanderbilt “Sadie” Schwab Knight Percival

Birth
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
16 Sep 1969 (aged 85)
Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Burial
Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section S Lot 99 Grave 10 Range 6
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Daughter of William H. Schwab and Mary Joseph (married September 29, 1881, in Providence, Rhode Island), wife of Henry Gibson Knight, the son of Edgar Knight and Olivia Gibbs, whom she married on January 10, 1911, in Brookhaven, New York, and mother of Henrietta Marion (married Harold Winfield Gill) and William Henry Knight. Sister of Iona Schwab Tuddenham Graham.

Second wife of Louis Peter Percival, the son of Louis Pierre Perceval and Charlotte Lèonie Vreux, whom she married on June 12, 1932, in Patchogue, New York.

In 1900, Sadie Schwab, aged 15, born June 1884 in New Jersey, was living in a children's home on Somerset Street in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with her sister, Iona Schwab, aged 14, born March 1886 in New Jersey.

Marriage - Another Marriage at the L.I.R.R. Experimental Station - Medford, January 19 - A short courtship, two thoughts as one, a trip to Patchogue, and Henry Knight, foreman, and Sadie Schwab, a dairymaid at the Long Island Railroad Experimental Station No. 2, were quietly married yesterday. Celebration of the event was coupled with a surprise party given the groom today, his birthday, by his sister, Mrs. Edward Tuddenham, who lives at the experimental station, and only a short time ago was married to one of the farm's employees.

In 1940, Sarah Percival, aged 55, born in Rhode Island, was living at 18 Norton Street, Brookhaven, New York, with her husband, Louis Percival, aged 70, born in France, and son, William Percival, aged 22, employed in a retail grocery store, and boarder, Irving Young, aged 21, a bookkeeper.

Obituary - MRS SARAH KNIGHT PERCIVAL, 85. formerly of 43 Lake Street, Patchogue, died Tuesday. Born in Providence, R. l. She lived in Patchogue 39 years. She is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Henrietta Gill; and a son. William Knight, both of Patchogue; a sister, Mrs. Iona Graham of Florida; five grandchildren, and 10 great - grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Ruland Funeral Home, the Rev. John E. Southard, pastor of The First Baptist Church of Patchogue. officiating. Interment will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Patchogue.

(Records of Cedar Grove Cemetery; 1900, 1940 US Federal Census; Sarah V Schwab / Henry G Knight in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967, Certificate Number 3368; Sarah V. Knight / Sarah V. Schwab / Louis P. Percival in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967, Certificate Number 16936; The Long Island advance., September 18, 1969, Page 10; Sarah Percival in the New York State, U.S., Death Index, 1957-1970, Certificate Number 72091)
Daughter of William H. Schwab and Mary Joseph (married September 29, 1881, in Providence, Rhode Island), wife of Henry Gibson Knight, the son of Edgar Knight and Olivia Gibbs, whom she married on January 10, 1911, in Brookhaven, New York, and mother of Henrietta Marion (married Harold Winfield Gill) and William Henry Knight. Sister of Iona Schwab Tuddenham Graham.

Second wife of Louis Peter Percival, the son of Louis Pierre Perceval and Charlotte Lèonie Vreux, whom she married on June 12, 1932, in Patchogue, New York.

In 1900, Sadie Schwab, aged 15, born June 1884 in New Jersey, was living in a children's home on Somerset Street in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with her sister, Iona Schwab, aged 14, born March 1886 in New Jersey.

Marriage - Another Marriage at the L.I.R.R. Experimental Station - Medford, January 19 - A short courtship, two thoughts as one, a trip to Patchogue, and Henry Knight, foreman, and Sadie Schwab, a dairymaid at the Long Island Railroad Experimental Station No. 2, were quietly married yesterday. Celebration of the event was coupled with a surprise party given the groom today, his birthday, by his sister, Mrs. Edward Tuddenham, who lives at the experimental station, and only a short time ago was married to one of the farm's employees.

In 1940, Sarah Percival, aged 55, born in Rhode Island, was living at 18 Norton Street, Brookhaven, New York, with her husband, Louis Percival, aged 70, born in France, and son, William Percival, aged 22, employed in a retail grocery store, and boarder, Irving Young, aged 21, a bookkeeper.

Obituary - MRS SARAH KNIGHT PERCIVAL, 85. formerly of 43 Lake Street, Patchogue, died Tuesday. Born in Providence, R. l. She lived in Patchogue 39 years. She is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Henrietta Gill; and a son. William Knight, both of Patchogue; a sister, Mrs. Iona Graham of Florida; five grandchildren, and 10 great - grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Ruland Funeral Home, the Rev. John E. Southard, pastor of The First Baptist Church of Patchogue. officiating. Interment will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Patchogue.

(Records of Cedar Grove Cemetery; 1900, 1940 US Federal Census; Sarah V Schwab / Henry G Knight in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967, Certificate Number 3368; Sarah V. Knight / Sarah V. Schwab / Louis P. Percival in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967, Certificate Number 16936; The Long Island advance., September 18, 1969, Page 10; Sarah Percival in the New York State, U.S., Death Index, 1957-1970, Certificate Number 72091)

Gravesite Details

Plot owner Henrietta Gill.



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