Sarah Summers

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Daughter of John "Little John" Coate and Susanna Ennis Coate, original settlers of Newberry County, South Carolina and of the Quaker faith.

Sarah became the wife of Jesse Summers of the same county. She was first married to a Mr. Hall.

From Sarah's marriage to Jesse, at least seven children were born: William E., Whitfield Brooks, Jesse Madison, Albert C., Henry, Caley G., John C., & Eldridge Summers.

In 1836, Sarah's son William E. Summers, fought and died at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6. He was buried at the Alamo in San Antonio. William is named among the Alamo's Immortal 32. Son Henry C.G. Summers also participated. The Summers brothers voted in the election of delegates to the Texas Independence Convention on March 1, 1836, at Washington-on-the-Brazos, where Henry served as clerk.