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Sarah 'Birdie' (Miner) Pickard |
Sarah Bird "Birdie" (Miner) Pickard was born on Jan. 11, 1866 in Lee County, IA, the daughter of Nathaniel and Susan (Abbott) Miner.
She grew up in and around the family farm near West Point, Pleasant Ridge Township, Lee County.
At the age of 25, on Nov. 12, 1890, Birdie was united in the bonds of holy matrimony with 24-year-old farmer Isaac Lorain "Ike" Pickard (Dec. 3, 1866-1945). He was the son of James and Emma (Derbyshire) Pickard. The wedding took place in the Miner household in Lee County, by the hand of Rev. Frank Button, with Birdie's brother Charles and sister Florence serving as witnesses.
They did not reproduce.
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Picturesque San Diego, California |
In 1900-1908, the Pickards are known to have resided at Fort Madison, Lee County. Isaac's occupation in 1900 was carpentry.
The couple was on the move for much of the 1900s and 1910s. Federal census records for 1910 show that the couple migrated to the West Coast, settling in Los Angeles. There, Isaac continued his trade as a house carpenter. Then in 1920, census records show them living on a farm in the South Bijou precinct of Adams County, CO.
During the decade of the 1920s, they again pulled up stakes and migrated to the west coast, establishing a residence in Coronado, a peninsula community across the bay from San Diego. By 1930, Isaac secured a position as a clerk in a hardware store.
The pair remained in Coronado for good. Birdie's sister Laura Troxel and husband Joseph -- a Civil War veteran -- also dwelled in Coronado in those years. At the death of brother-in-law Troxel, Birdie signed an affidavit in support of the widow's claim for a military pension. U.S. Census records for 1940 count the pair in Coronado in their mid-70s and having no occupation.
Isaac surrendered to death in San Diego on June 16, 1945. The remains were placed into the sleep of the ages in the mausoleum of San Diego's Greenwood Memorial Park.
Birdie died in San Diego on April 6, 1954.
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