Sarah H. Blaisdell

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Cass County Michigan Biographies
From The History of Cass County by Glover
.....Miss Sarah H. Blaisdell, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, where she was born September 8, 1811. Her parents, Samuel and Dorothy (Straw) Blaisdell, were of English parentage and New England birth. In 1836 Mr. Simpson and wife came to Pokagon and settled on the farm which was ever afterward his home....
.....After the death of her husband, Mrs. Simpson assumed the management of the estate, which she conducted successfully until 1850, when she was again married, to John H. Simpson, brother of her first husband. He was a native of New Hampshire and a man universally esteemed. He died August 19, 1879, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
Mrs. Simpson resided upon the old homestead until her death, January 4, 1889, a lady very highly esteemed.....

MI death records
Sarah H. Simpson
[Sarah H. Blaisdell] Birth Date: abt 1811 Birth Place: New Hampshire Death Date: 4 Jun 1888 Death Place: Pokagon, Cass Co., MI Death Age: 77 Occupation: Farmer Race: White Marital Status: Widowed Gender: Female Father Name: Samuel Blaisdell Mother Name: Dorothy Blaisdell FHL Film Number: 1021048

Sarah married Moses Wales Simpson, son of Samuel Simpson and Rhoda Dickerman, before 1836. (Moses Wales Simpson was born on 16 May 1808 in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 16 Jun 1849 in Pokagon Twp Cass County, Michigan and was buried in Sumnerville Cemetery in Pokagon, Michigan.)

Sarah next married John Harvey Simpson, son of Samuel Simpson and Rhoda Dickerman, in 1850. (John Harvey Simpson was born on 2 Oct 1823 in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 19 Aug 1879 and was buried in Sumnerville Cemetery in Cass County, Michigan.)