Sarah Elizabeth Hannon

Edwin was born 1/5/1776 in the 96th District of SC

Soon after the birth of her last child, Sarah became sick. Worn out with bearing and raising nine offspring and fatigued with the hardships of frontier life, the mother was old beyond her years and gradually grew weaker and weaker, and seemed to lose all interest in living. A month after the last baby was born; the weeping family tenderly carried her body up the hillside above the cabin. A neighbor who could read was hastily summoned from the nearest settlement several miles distant to read several chapters from the Bible as the family stood with bowed heads.