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Trotter Family Genealogy Report

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Sarah Trotter and Absolom Sivils Family

I know very little about Sarah Trotter and nothing about her parents.

A cemetery transcription says that her husband's brother Wallis Sivils married her sister Jane, but this is contradicted by Wallis and Jane's son's biography. See: Goodspeed Tipton County Biographies, noted 24 August 2004.

Sarah's husband seems to have died before 1850. She died sometime after the 1880 census. Her census records show a woman constantly dependent and constantly on the move.

In 1850 it appears that she is living with her in-laws.
Elizabeth Sivils Perry and Jefferson Sivils were likely her husband's siblings:
1850 Bradley Co., TN Census
26th Subdivision E.D. Tenn., pg. 222B
15 Nov. 1850 by Pryor K. Lea
line 31 1179/1179 John PERRY 35 M Farmer " [Tennessee]
Elizabeth 35 F " [Tennessee]
Francis 11 M " [Tennessee]
Elizabeth 9 F " [Tennessee]
Sarah 7 F " [Tennessee]
Mary 5 F " [Tennessee]
William 3 M " [Tennessee]
Sarah SIVILS 40 F " [Tennessee]
George 5 M " [Tennessee]
line 42 1181/1181 Jefferson SIVILS 48 M Blacksmith NC
pg. 223A, line 1 America " [SIVILS] 29 F Tennessee
Comodore 11 M " [Tennessee]
Sophia 8 F " [Tennessee]
Mary 7 F " [Tennessee]
America 4 F " [Tennessee]
Thomas 4 M " [Tennessee]
William 3 M " [Tennessee]
James 1 M " [Tennessee].)
In 1860, Sarah is living with her son Levi:
1860 Bradley Co., TN Census, Dist. Thirteenth Dist., pg. 230/278B
31 July 1860 by James Donohoo, P.O. Cleveland
line 5, 1521/1521 Levi SIVELS 33 M Farmer Painter 1000/100 " [Tenn]
Liza 18 F " [Tenn]
Susan M. 3 F " [Tenn]
Sarah C. 1 F " [Tenn]
Sarah 60 F " [Tenn]
Telitha 19 F " [Tenn]
Timothy 15 M " [Tenn].)
Sarah Jane "Jane" Sivils Lewis is Sarah's daughter:
8 July 1870, Eleventh Dist., McMinn County, Tennessee
Eleventh District, Page No. 19/130A, 8 July 1870 by R.T. Engledow, P.O. Athens
line 36, 127/130 LEWIS Ansum 33 M"[W] Laborer N-Carolina cannot r/w
Sarah 30 F"[W] Keeping house Tennessee
William 11 M"[W] " " [Tennessee] cannot r/w
Mollie 8 F"[W] " " [Tennessee]
Timothy 3 M"[W] " " [Tennessee]
pg. 20/130B
line 1, SIVELS Sallie 80 FW assistant HousK N-Carolina.)
Jeptha is Sarah's nephew (a son of Wallis Sivils) and Eliza is her former daughter-in-law (Levi died and she married Jeptha in 1866):
1880 McMinn Co., TN Census, 16th Civil District
Pg. No. 52/428B, S.D. 2, E.D. 68
22 June 1880 by E.W. Carlock
line 20, 109/110 SIVILS, Jeptha WM 49 Married Farmer Tenn Va Va
Eliza WF 39 Wife Married Keeping house Ky Va Ky
William WM 19 Son S Farm laborer Tenn Tenn Ky
Albert WM 15 Son S Works on farm Tenn Tenn Ky
Edgar WM 8 Son S Tenn Tenn Ky
Sarah WF 75 Aunt Wd. N.C. Md. Va.)

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