SARAH PETTIGREW GARRETT
Biography
transcribed by Sheryl McClure
from Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
MRS. SARAH GARRETT was born within six miles of
Belfast, in County Down, Ireland, Aug. 21, 1821. Her parents were
Robert and Mary E. (Huddleston) Pettigrew, of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
The father was a farmer. The marriage of Miss Pettigrew took place Aug.
11, 1847, the groom being James Garrett, son of Hugh and Margaret
(Clark) Garrett.
In 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Garrett left Ireland and came to
America, landing in New York, where they remained a short time. Thence
they removed to Fayette County, Ill., where they bought a farm, upon
which they lived for eleven years. In the fall of 1878, they came to
Kansas, and settled in Washington County. Their estate comprise 160
acres on Section 11, Mill Creek Township, where Mrs. Garrett still
resides. The farm has been well improved, and the productive acres bear
marks of careful tillage. The residence is a neat frame building, with
pleasant surroundings. One son and one daughter reside in it with their
widowed mother.
Mr. Garrett departed this life Dec. 19, 1884, at the age of
sixty-two years. He was an esteemed and respected citizen of the
county, and a man of known integrity and inflexible honesty. He lived a
Christian life, and left a good name as a highly prized inheritance to
his family. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he
was a Republican, though not an office seeker or office holder.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett was blessed by the birth of
seven children. The first born, Mary L., married Fletcher McWilliams, a
farmer of Mill Creek Township; they have ten children. Hugh is a
successful merchant of the little town of Morrow. Margaret married
James McWilliams, a farmer of Mill Creek Township. Jane is the wife of
Ross Hannon, a successful agriculturalist; they have two children. Sara
E. is unmarried and is at home. Arabelle died in 1888; she was
unmarried. She passed away in the earlier years of her young womanhood,
being twenty-five years of age. Robert J., the youngest, is single and
at home.
Mrs. Garrett is a lady of retiring disposition, self
abnegating, tender hearted, and sympathetic. She reveres the memory of
her departed husband, and of her daughter Arabelle, whose recent death
fell as a heavy affliction upon her mother’s heart, and is an
ever-present sorrow. Beside those of her children who reside with her,
Mrs. Garrett has living within a few miles, her two married daughters
and her son, Hugh.
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