| Notes |
- Sarah Elizabeth Churchill most likely attended East Lynn College in
Buffalo, KY to receive her education. After the death of her husband,
Walter Williams Coombs, she continued to live on at their home in Big
Spring, Larue County, Kentucky until 1900 when she sold the old homestead
of the Williams and Coombs family, consisting of 240 acres, to the Rider
brothers, namely Robert E. Rider and George M. Rider of Upton, Hardin
(Larue) County, Kentucky. Sarah Elizabeth Churchill then moved to
Blackwell, "K" County, Oklahoma in 1900 to reside. It has been reported
that the subject lost almost everything they had soon after their
departure to Oklahoma. Speculation is that they may have invested heavily
in the oil or cattle business, a venture that apparently proved ill-fated.
After living in Blackwell, Oklahoma, she and her family moved on March
15, 1901 to Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma. There she passed
away eight years later in 1910, just three days before her 80th birthday.
She was brought back home to Eagle Mills, Larue County, Kentucky and was
buried on her birthday beside her husband in the Coombs-Williams Cemetery.
While a resident of Larue County, Kentucky, she was a devout member of
the Big Spring Baptist Church, the only remains of which today are the
graves in the cemetery that was situated next to that church. It was said
that she was a most charitable woman, ever administering to the needs of
those who were in want.
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1830 - 1910 (79 years)
