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Little is known of Sara's life, except a few tidbits. In October 1888, the Connellsville Keystone Courier reported that eight-year-old Sara and her mother were "visiting friends at Scottdale" in nearby Westmoreland County. She is thought to have been a kindly aunt to her nephews and nieces. Once, when young nephew Tilghman "Tim" Thorpe was sent to bed without dinner, Sara snuck some cake and pie into his room for him to secretly enjoy. Sara and her sister Bertha Means and sister in law Leona (Colbert) Freed accompanied their elderly, widowed father to the Minerd Reunion in August 1932, held at Lake Forest Park near Scottdale, Westmoreland County. Writing in the Huntingdon (PA) Daily News, their cousin Laura Jane (Minerd) Williams reported: "Everyone seemed to enjoy the fine fellowship that existed among all the reunionists and the innumerable baskets that provided dinner and supper for the party were bottomless." Sara resided in Vanderbilt in 1934, near Dickerson Run, the year her father died.
By 1973, when her sister Clara died, Sara was in Jacksonville, Duvall County, FL. Sara died on Dec. 2, 1977, at the age of 97, presumably in Jacksonville. Her burial site is unknown. Copyright © 2002, 2006, 2009 Mark A. Miner |