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Sarah Jane Staples

Birth: about 1861Death: unknownMarried Durant on 14 October [1877]Age sixteen at marriage; High confidence identification with wife Sarah J., forty-seven, in 1910. Children’s maternity is inferred, not explicitly stated by that census.

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Recorded mortgage naming Anthony, his deceased brother William, and livestock, corn and household goods securing rent.

FAMILY STORIES

Anthony Forehand of Camden: Family, Land, and a Remembered Home

A rent mortgage, ten acres beside a millpond, and a remembered North River Road home trace Anthony Forehand’s Camden family—his wives, children and grandchildren, with the uncertain connections weighed openly.