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About Sarah Jane Sevier
Sarah married John Sevier at the age of 15, 1761 in Frederick County, Virginia. Sarah died at the age of 33 soon after giving birth to their 10th child. She was a frontier woman of exceptional strength and never got to enjoy her husband's success as the 1st Governor of Tennessee.
Disconnected from mother Sarah Hawkins March 2019.
The back side of Sarah Hawkins Sevier's memorial stone in Knoxville, TN seen here: http://posterityproject.blogspot.com/2013/03/sarah-hawkins-sevier-f... "Sarah Hawkins Sevier, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Marlin Hawkins ..."
From: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marlin-140
Very recently, it has been brought to my attention that a controversy exists regarding the wife of Joseph Hawkins Sr., and the mother of Sarah Jane Hawkins. There is some reason to accept one Sarah MacDaniel (born Jones) was the wife of Joseph Hawkins, and the mother of Sarah Jane Hawkins and her siblings. And NOT Sarah Marlin. There are marriage registries to back up a Sarah Jones marriage to a James MacDaniel in 1739, and a marriage registry for a widow Sarah MacDaniel to a Joseph Hawkins in 1744. Both marriages took place in Maryland. However, so far the date of decease for one James MacDaniel is elusive, and no record of a decree of divorce has been offered. Since there is no adequate proof this is the very same Joseph Hawkins, I'm inclined to go with Sarah Marlin as the wife and mother of his children. She was believed to be the one in 1946 when the memorial stone was placed for Sarah Jane Hawkins on the Knoxville Courthouse lawn, next to the grave of her husband, Governor John Sevier. This is not her grave, as her remains have never been found. Again, Sarah Marlin is listed as the mother in the Cora Bales Sevier "Sevier Family History" 1961. If anyone has something more concrete on this matter, please by all means, bring it to my attention. Thank you.
I should also like to add that I recently was contacted by living members of the Marlin family. We exchanged DNA kit numbers and lo, and behold, I match three of them! Mystery, for me, solved.
See also: https://books.google.com/books?id=jMU0U3KqzQQC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=...
notes
- There is a marriage registration for John Sevier's marriage to Sarah Jane Hawkins, available at Ancestry.com.
- The memorial to Sarah Jane, put in place over at the Knoxville County Courthouse in Tennessee by one of her great-granddaughters, a Mrs. Hoss Headman, and the DAR, lists her parents as Joseph Hawkins and Sarah Marlin.
- Notable Southern Families, Volume IV suggests her death was January 1780, however, the newer Sevier Family History book published in 1961 by Cora Bales Sevier suggests it was either January or in the Spring 1780.
- From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/finley/1484/ ""P. S. Polly Finley, our cousin, married David Crockett, and Mary Finley, married Joseph Sevier, son of John Sevier, John Sevier and John Crockett, married Sisters - they were Hawkins."
- Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 3 2020, 2:08:47 UTC
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 8 2022, 20:29:25 UTC
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Sarah Jane Sevier's Timeline
| 1746 |
June 3, 1746
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Frederick County, Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1763 |
March 17, 1763
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Augusta County, Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1764 |
October 25, 1764
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Augusta County, Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1766 |
June 20, 1766
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New Market, Prince William County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1768
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New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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July 1770
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New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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March 10, 1772
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Woodstock, Dunmore, now Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1773
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Woodstock, Dunmore, now Shenandoah County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1775
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Rockingham County, Virginia, Colonial America
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