Sarah Jane GHRIST

Notes:

Sadie gave birth to their third child soon after she had contacted small pox. Both Sadie and the child died during or shortly after the birth. She was staying at her mother's home in Vanderbilt, PA at the time of death.

Ref: Family records and papers located in the family Bible
Interviews with Fanny Ethel Santmyer Rowley, James R. Rowley & Anna Mae Wagget Walls.

1880 East Huntington Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA - page 25
Grist, Robert - age 27 - Coal miner - born PA
Elizabeth - 24 - wife - born PA
Minnie - 5 - daughter - born PA
Nelson - 2 - son - born PA
Sadie - 6/12 - daughter - born PA
Robert's parents born PA
Elizabeth's parents born PA

Sarah married William Harrison SANTMYER 6 Nov 1897, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. William (son of James Jacob SANTMYER and Helen Marr SHAW) was born 12 Jun 1876, Allegany Co., Maryland; died 16 Nov 1923, Fairmont, Marion Co., West Virginia; was buried 21 Nov 1923, Mt Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

1. Hilda Willis SANTMYER was born 17 Aug 1899, Vanderbilt, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died 31 Jan 1935, Keisterville, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; was buried 1935, Pleasant View Cemetery.
2. Roy James SANTMYER, Sr was born 21 Jul 1901, Vanderbilt, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died 28 May 1960, Irwin, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.