Leaving New England and moving forward a couple of hundred years, Sarah was born to William and Elizabeth Mann Baldwin who had married and had a few children in West Virginia, then moved north to Tuscarawas County, Ohio where Sarah was born. If the Baldwin historians are to be believed, her Baldwin line can be traced back to Buckinghamshire, England and back to the 13th century.
Sarah married Elijah Ervin in 1838 in Tuscarawas County when she was 22 and he was 20. Soon after, they moved west to Scott county, Indiana with her dad and several siblings. Her brother wrote in a letter to his cousins,
"We are making preparations to move again in the spring to Scott County, Indiana, where we bought a farm containing 120 acres with a cabin house and stable and 25 acres cleared with 70 apple trees planted out for six hundred dollars . . . The Indiana fever is getting very high in this country. There is a good many of our neighbors have gone and several more agoing with us . . . We all expect to go down the river except David. He is going with the wagon as we think this would be the best way for us to go as there is so many of us that we all can't go in one wagon. As it is dear traveling by land and cheap by water as we found some very high bills as we was going down from 37 1/2 to 62 for supper and bed. The times is very hard in this country now for the poor people."
In the 1850 census, Elijah is shown as a fan dealer, and Sarah's youngest brother is living with them. Her father died in Scott County in 1842 and her mother may have died back in Ohio. In 1856 they moved further west to Vinton, Iowa and that is where my great grandfather Ebert was born. There is a family story that as a child, Eb was stolen by the Indians on his pinto pony and later found, still on his pinto. But the story goes that it wasn't really Eb who was found but a little Indian boy. I believe the story was made up as a joke since Eb looked so much like a native American as did several of his children.
After about 10 years in Iowa, Sarah and Elijah moved back to Scott County. In the l870 census, Elijah was a postmaster in Scott County, and he died when he was only 55. In the 1880 census, Sarah is shown as a Seamstress and three of her boys live with her. My grandma, Rose Lynch, would have know her grandma as Sarah died in 1897 when Grandma Rose was 8, but I never heard her talk about Grandma Sarah.
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