Sarah Mae Straw

   Cause of her death was nephritis.

   Other names for Sarah were Sallie Mae Straw and Sarah Saloma Straw.

  General Notes:

census 1860 Wyandot county OH
Christine c1811
Samuel c1832
Sarah c1849
William c1843

burial site per research of Greg Beitel March 2001 via e-mail

Martha Hufford Shough also wrote that she remembered her mother (Tena Smith Hufford) telling her stories about her Grandmother Smith's (Sallie May Straw Smith) many kindnesses to the Indians in their vicinity as she was very generous in supplying them with lard as well as other foodstuffs as she was constantly reminded that "taters don't slip down good without grease". According to Martha, the Indians called her grandmother "Squaw Smith" and they would frequently just come into their home and spend the night in front of the fire since there were no locks on the doors. Upon the death of Chief Tarhe, he was buried in Grandmother Smith's deer park and the monument still stands marking his grave and now is surrounded by an iron fence (the Tarhe monument has been relocated from the deer park referred to here and now sits on a road that is diagonal from the Smithville brick house – on CR 37 about ½ mile south of SR 67).

OH deaths
Name Sallie Mae Smith Death date 25 Feb 1910 Death place Sandusky Twp, Wyandot, Ohio Birth date 04 Jul 1839 Age at death 70 years 7 months 20 days Gender Female Father name Samuel Straw Mother name Cristina Staley
informant: Nettie Juvenal

Sarah married Joseph Mason Smith Sr., son of Daniel Smith and Mary Ellen Duddleson, on 2 Nov 1860 in Wyandot County, Ohio. (Joseph Mason Smith Sr. was born on 28 Dec 1832 in Seneca Co. OH, died on 15 Sep 1909 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio, USA.)