1761 - 1844
Virginia - Kentucky - Indiana
Nobody has much to say about Sarah Jane. She was born, she married, she bore children, she died. She has her name, unlike her mother-in-law, but, like her mother-in-law, she has no story of her own.
Well, there is one story, which may or may not be true. It is said that she was disinherited for marrying Terrance Connor, although some researchers deny this strenuously. It is plausible at least - she was from a couple of old Virginia families (her mother was a Mason; I'm not sure how distinguished her father's people were, but they were definitely an old Virginia family), while Terrance was the son of an Irishman - either an indentured servant or a convict (or both). So one could understand her parents being unhappy.
But even if she wasn't disinherited by her father, she disinherited herself. She cast her lot among the commoners, the adventurers, rather than the Tidewater gentry. She could (possibly) have lived like Martha Washington; instead she lived like Nancy Hanks Lincoln - on the frontier, always. Did she ever regret her choice? Did she cope splendidly with the rigors of the frontier, or did her husband and children do all they could to protect her? What kind of person was she?
At least five granddaughters were named after her. She herself named one daughter Margaret, possibly after her sister, but none after her parents or brother.
There are no stories - well, maybe one - so we make them up, out of tiny bits of information, out of great hunks of our own imagination.
For her ancestry, there are two nicely detailed files at Rootsweb, that of Helen Bennett Voorhees (the Bennett Genealogy Database) and the "My Bunch" file by Norma. There is one major disagreement, but mostly they have the same information - Helen has more places and sources, Norma has more children. The Gunston Hall site also has some information on her.
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