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Sarah E. Cranston Sullivan

15 Jul 1843 – 15 Apr 1934

Birth	15 Jul 1843
Death	15 Apr 1934
Cemetery	Elmwood Cemetery Augusta , Butler County , Kansas , USA
Added by	Judy Mayfield on 01 Jun 2007
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19662450

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Sarah Cranston was born 15 July 1843 in Ireland to William and Rose Ann Cranston, the fourth of six children. With the famine in Ireland worsening, the small family set off for the United States, settling in New York City in time to be registered on the 1850 census. The census taker came on the1st of August to count the people in dwelling #151 finding7 families with a total of 27 people. Considering New York City housing of the day, dwelling #151 was likely a tenement. The definition of a tenement house includes a run-down and often overcrowded apartment building, especially in a poor section of a large city. The census record does not reveal how many rooms might have been in dwelling #151. Needless to say, it was probably very crowded. It is interesting to note from the census record that Sarah and her older sister Mary were attending school. The population exploded with the arrival of the famine refugees in the mid-19th century creating a rapid need in New York City for housing. More and more people squeezed into the available apartments giving rise to the tenements. After a few years the family finances were such they were able to head to the frontier in western Illinois settling in Clayton, Adams County Illinois, in 1852. Sarah continued her schooling there for several more years. During the Civil War years, while her brothers John and James were serving in the Illinois cavalry, she wrote letters to her married sister Mary who saved Sarah’s letters along with their brother John’s. George D. Sullivan’s (1835-1911) family left Pennsylvania to move to Hancock Co., Illinois when he was young. During the Civil War, George joined the 4th Iowa Infantry and was slightly wounded twice before mustering out at the end of the war. He returned to Hancock the county just north of Adams Co. “Geo. C Sullivan Dies Suddenly,” The Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Butler Co., Kansas, 22 April 1911, Sat., p 4. Newspapers.com. He met, courted then married Sarah on 6 January 1870 in Clayton. The newlyweds stayed only a short time in Hancock Co.,before moving west settling in Augusta, Butler Co., Kansas in 1871, where he worked as a blacksmith. George’s obituary states that they had six children, three daughters surviving to marry. Stella/Estella married C. A. Viets, May married Frank Anderson and Harriet Francis married A.C. Thompson. In contrast, in the 1920 Census records Sarah reports four as the number of children born to her, all living at the time, In my research, I have only found the three daughters named above. Sarah and George lived in Augusta, until 1895. They moved to Latham, Kansas a short distance away showing up in the 1905 Kansas State Census there, before returning to Augusta. In 1910 Sarah and George were living with their daughter Stella Viets, in Augusta. Her husband, C A Viets, was a proprietor of a Mercantile Emporium. According to George’s newspaper obituary Sarah and George traveled to Gueda Springs, Kansas in April 1911. George stayed there at the Springs to enjoy its health benefits while Sarah traveled further to visit their daughter Harriet in Lamont, Oklahoma. While Sarah was gone, George suffered a fatal attack (It is unclear exactly what kind of attack it was) and died 21 April 1911. The family gathered for his funeral with his body returning by train to Augusta, Kansas for burial at Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta. Many little notes appeared in the Augusta Daily Gazette over the following years as Sarah Sullivan visited her daughters in Lamont, Oklahoma and Garden City, Colorado. Sarah died at the age of 90 on 15 April 1934. She is buried with George in the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta, Kansas. NOTE: bio info provided by Contributor: Jeannette (47183885)

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