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Sarah Ann Green Haley
Nov 1866 – 13 Aug 1939
| Birth | Nov 1866 |
| Death | 13 Aug 1939 |
| Cemetery | Mount Hope Cemetery Lansing , Ingham County , Michigan , USA |
| Added by | Brenda on 03 Jun 2025 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53018756 |
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A findagrave volunteer has reported that she has no grave marker. ----- HALEY Sarah Ann Obituary 1939 Lansing State Journal, Publ. Monday, 14 Aug 1939, Page 10 Mrs. Sarah Ann Haley Mrs. Sarah Ann Haley, 71, a resident of Lansing for 46 years, died Sunday at the home, 1420 South Logan street. She was born in Peoria, Ill. Funeral services will be held at the Original Church of God, 915 William street. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Elder A. B. Martin officiating. Sarah Green's marriage Samuel Baker Sarah's age 15 Samuel's age 49 Marriage Date 16 Jun 1882 Marriage Place Gilead, Branch, Michigan, USA ----- ◦Excerpts from Ethel Hand Armstrong's Story A FAMILY NAMED HAND ... Once our parents and we visited the children of mother's only brother, Walt. (Marcia's note: Walt was a nick name. His name was Lewellyn Walter GREEN.) He was sick and could not take care of them. There was quite a large family of them and there was no way to support them and the father would never be able to so they had been placed in a childrens' home in Indiana. Goldie and I felt so sorry for them because they could not remain and home without a father or mother and they were aware that their father was dying. Later mother's sister Sarah took the baby. (Marcia's note: Sarah's maiden name was Sarah Ann GREEN, her married name Sarah Ann HALEY.) A boy named Miles and raised him as her own. Other relatives took one or two others but all the older ones had to stay at the home until they were sixteen ... Aunt Sarah came by train from Lansing to visit us sometimes. We always enjoyed her so much. She was short, fat and good natured and she smoked a corn cob pipe. That was interesting to us because we didn't know any other woman who smoked them. Of course she brought cousin Miles with her. He was three or four by then. She always dressed him so nicely but Goldie and I always felt sorry for him. She was always on his back for something. He never did anything right. If he ate fast, she got on him to eat slower and if he ate slower she scolded him for dawdling with his food. I am sure that she was trying to raise him right but she went at it in a funny way. Aunt Sarah had been married to a colored man for a number of years. His name was Berriman Haley and he was a nice man but that was a long time ago and mixed marriages were not as common as they are getting to be now. I asked mother about him once and she told me that years before Sarah had been married to a white man and they had two boys. Her husband had been killed and left her with two babies tor raise. There wasn't a big choice of jobs that a woman could get then and the common solution was to remarry as fast as possible in order to have a father for your children. Berriman had offered security and a home and she was desperate enough to accept it. The little boys had both died after a little while and a baby boy born to her and Berriman also died when he was about a year old so she ended up with no children of her own. Berriman was good to her and if she ever regretted her marriage to him no one knew it. ... We were pretty crowded in the tiny house but we managed. We spent some time with Aunt Sarah while we were in Lansing too. I think that it was at that time that Sarah told mother that before she died, their mother had told her about her Indian blood but she would never say more than that but just before she died she told Sarah that she had been taken by white men in a raid and raised by a white family as a slave and later had married the son of the family. Because she was related to Sitting Bull and all of the Soo tribe hated white men she was afraid to tell anyone who she was until after Grandpa had died because she was afraid they might kill him for revenge. It seemed that she was Sitting Bulls wife's sister. Her Indian name was Grey Fawn. ... -----
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