Pete was said to have murdered a man in a bar fight, but court records show a $2 fine for assult and battery. Enough family stories exist that I think he must have been a short-tempered man. Also, Sarah and Pete had to face the tragedy of one of Pete's brother-in-law's lynching, and the arrest for murder of another brother-in-law. According to newspaper stories, three men (two of them married to Pete's sisters) planned to rob an old woman near Brownstown, Indiana. Two of them went to her home and ended up murdering her. Those two were later pulled out of jail by a lynch mob and hung. The other brother-in-law apparently was released and moved out of state.
Sarah and Pete had about 8 children and lived in a log cabin in western Scott County, near Little York. In 2000, the cabin was still standing and inhabited. After Pete died in l902, Sarah lived with her youngest son, Wid, and his wife, and then with her grandson, Ivan, and his wife, until she died in 1919.
My dad, a son of Ivan, knew Grandma Sarah when he was a youngster. When his first child was born, he named her Nancy Jane. Was that for his Grandma Sarah, and her mom, Jane? When his first son was born, he wanted to name him Pete after his great-grandfather. My mother, his wife, said she would not name a child after a murderer and named him Robert. However, everyone called Robert "Petie" until he started to school.
Sarah's mother was probably of English descent - her father a Montgomery and her mother a Johnston. Both those families also were in southern Indiana in the early nineteenth century. Sarah inherited good genes and she lived to be 93 years old.
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