LAMBIRTH, Sarah Ann (TILFORD) 1816-1891

LAMBIRTH, TILFORD, CHEZUM, POOL

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 4/14/2004 at 21:49:30

"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, July 22, 1891
Page 7, Column 1

ANOTHER PIONEER GONE.

Sarah Ann TILFORD was born in Adair Co., Ken., Nov. 3d, 1816, and died at the home of her son-in-law, J. P. CHEZUM, in Jefferson County, Iowa, July 16th, 1891, at the advanced age of 74 years 8 months and 13 days. When but a little girl her parents removed to Morgan County, Ill., where she grew to womanhood. On the 8th day of Feb., 1836, she was united in marriage with Thomas LAMBIRTH. After twenty-one years of married life her husband sickened and died and for more than 34 years Mother LAMBIRTH shared the sorrows and deprivations of a widow. In the month of May in the same year in which they were married they emigrated to Iowa, which was then a part of the territory of Michigan. They made their new home in what is now known as Round Prairie township, Jefferson County, where they continued to live until transferred from labor to reward. Mother LAMBIRTH was in every sense of the word a pioneer. She is said to have been the first white woman to cross the large creek known as Big Cedar. In 1848 she made a profession of religion and united with the M.E. Church, the services for years being held in her own dwelling. . . . She was the mother of eight children, seven of whom are still living. . . . .The remains being interred in the Lambirth cemetery near her old home. Rev. T. S. Pool.

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