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Sarah

Bullen
Birth Date:

November 19, 1819

Birth Location:

Needingworth, Huntingdonshire
England

Death Date:

October 3, 1898

Death Location:

Otto Township
Kankakee County, Illinois

Burial:

Mound Grove Cemetery
Kanakakee, Illinois

Parents
Father
John Bullen
(1793-1873)
Mother
Mary Elizabeth Kirby
(1795-1840)

Siblings

1
Joseph
 Burling

1817-1898
2
Sarah

Bullen
1819-1898
3
Anne
Bullen
1820-1845
4
James
Bullen
1826-?
5
Samuel
Bullen
1828-1895
6
William
Bullen
1829-1829
7
Mary
Bullen
1831-1838
8
Robert
Burling
1832-1906
9
John
Burling
1835-1907
Marriage
Sarah Bullen married John Easton on July 20, 1841
in Holywell cum Needingworth, Huntingdonshire, England.


Sarah and John immigrated from England to America in 1856.
John died some time between 1856 and 1858.

Sarah married Christopher Stimpson on August 16, 1858
in Kankakee County, Illinois.  Christopher was also from England.

Children

Some family members have suggested that Sarah had
children; there is no known record of these children.
 
Notes
After their mother Elizabeth Kirby died, Sarah helped raise her younger brothers.

John and Sarah Eason appear on the 1851 census as living in Holywell, Cambridgeshire, England.  He is 35 years old and working as an agricultural laborer.  She is listed as being 28 years old.

In 1860, Christopher and Sarah Stimpson are living in Otto Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
Their name appears as "Stephenson."  Sarah's brothers Robert and John are living with them.

In 1870, Christopher and Sarah Stimpson are living in Otto Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.

In 1880, Cris and Sarah Stimpson are living in Otto Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.

Sarah is buried next to her husband in Mound Grove Cemetery in Kankakee, Illinois.
 Their plot is adjacent to the family plot of Sarah's brother John Burling.

Letters

Mentioned in:

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Letter from Robert Burling to John Burling, March 1877

Sources
  1. Leion lburling@aol.com

  2. Bob [rj.briggs@shaw.ca]

 

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