Sarah Skinner

Name
Sarah /Skinner/
Given names
Sarah
Surname
Skinner
Marriage
Unique identifier: 56118908921684C9C4494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF7766
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 561188EDC9B439DE04494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF58632
Birth of a son
Unique identifier: 56118906B82046A704494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF90361
Marriage of a son
Unique identifier: 56118908DEC6B63064494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:FF10621

Alexander and Elizabeth Catherine Hope were married October 10, 1878 at the home of her

<p>half-brother, James Sanderson Hope in Kerr County, Texas. James, local justice of the peace, officiated at their marriage ceremony on the Guadalupe River. Mrs. Merritt said, “She was very excited over the big crowd that gathered there to witness the ceremony. They celebrated with a big supper and dance.”
Death of a husband
Unique identifier: 561189068E3E153804494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF90190
Burial of a husband
Unique identifier: 561189068E5C753904494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF90191
Death of a son
Unique identifier: 561188EDCA1B69E204494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF58634

At the age of 71, Alexander W. Merritt died December 12, 1919 in a San Antonio hospital. He was buried at the Vance Cemetery, adjacent to the Baptist Church, Real County, Texas. The Merritts had been married 41 years. After the death of her husband, Catherine and the three younger children remained on the home place until sometime after 1920. She sold the ranch property to her son, William Alex and his wife Willie and moved to Camp Wood. She drew a widow’s pension for her husband’s service in the Texas Rangers.

Reference Number
Unique identifier: 56118906B7DFE6A504494FC262BEB6D4
Record ID number: MH:IF90360
Shared note: 44453
Record ID number
Family with Sherwood Randolph Merritt
husband
18221918
Birth: May 3, 1822Morgan Co., GA
Death: August 17, 1918Kerr Co., TX
herself
Marriage MarriageJanuary 30, 1848Mobile, AL
10 months
son
18481919
Birth: November 10, 1848 26 AR
Death: December 12, 1919San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX
3 years
son
Sherwood Randolph Merritt + Kiziah Jane Watson
husband
18221918
Birth: May 3, 1822Morgan Co., GA
Death: August 17, 1918Kerr Co., TX
husband’s wife
Marriage MarriageJuly 17, 1856
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