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Sarah <I>Day</I> Stehle

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Sarah Day Stehle

Birth
Godney, Mendip District, Somerset, England
Death
12 Feb 1875 (aged 41–42)
Franklin, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Franklin, Oakland County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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Sarah Day was the daughter of George Day and Ann Churches. She came to the United States with her family, arriving on board the British barque Cosmo in New York City on May 31, 1851. The family came to America seeking better economic opportunities than what they had left behind in Godney, England. Settling in Oakland County north of Detroit, Michigan, Sarah was married to German immigrant Francis Xavier Stehle on November 3, 1852. Justice of the Peace Cornelius Lawrence performed the ceremony while Joseph Anderson and Elizabeth McDonald acted as their witnesses. Initially living in Farmington Township, Sarah and her family moved to Bloomfield Township, just outside the village of Franklin where her husband Francis operated a sawmill for many years. Francis and Sarah had eleven children: Anna Magdalena, Sarah Ann, George Francis, Lewis Allen, John Henry, Joseph Damian, Edward Alvin, Evelyn May (or Matilda), Herbert M., Andrew Alexander, and Ulrich Xavier. Sarah died at her Franklin home from "inflammation of the lungs" on February 12, 1875. Though there is no record of her burial location, she could have only been buried at the nearby Franklin Cemetery. The early cemetery records were destroyed in a fire, but a surviving map shows that her husband Francis did own a cemetery lot there. Sarah is probably buried near her husband's modern grave marker. Her oldest daughter, Anna Magdalena (Stehle) Kynast, may be buried beside her.
Biography compiled by her great-great-grandson, Jeff Stehle. Please credit appropriately.
Sarah Day was the daughter of George Day and Ann Churches. She came to the United States with her family, arriving on board the British barque Cosmo in New York City on May 31, 1851. The family came to America seeking better economic opportunities than what they had left behind in Godney, England. Settling in Oakland County north of Detroit, Michigan, Sarah was married to German immigrant Francis Xavier Stehle on November 3, 1852. Justice of the Peace Cornelius Lawrence performed the ceremony while Joseph Anderson and Elizabeth McDonald acted as their witnesses. Initially living in Farmington Township, Sarah and her family moved to Bloomfield Township, just outside the village of Franklin where her husband Francis operated a sawmill for many years. Francis and Sarah had eleven children: Anna Magdalena, Sarah Ann, George Francis, Lewis Allen, John Henry, Joseph Damian, Edward Alvin, Evelyn May (or Matilda), Herbert M., Andrew Alexander, and Ulrich Xavier. Sarah died at her Franklin home from "inflammation of the lungs" on February 12, 1875. Though there is no record of her burial location, she could have only been buried at the nearby Franklin Cemetery. The early cemetery records were destroyed in a fire, but a surviving map shows that her husband Francis did own a cemetery lot there. Sarah is probably buried near her husband's modern grave marker. Her oldest daughter, Anna Magdalena (Stehle) Kynast, may be buried beside her.
Biography compiled by her great-great-grandson, Jeff Stehle. Please credit appropriately.

Gravesite Details

Buried in an unmarked grave



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  • Added: Feb 18, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33974541/sarah-stehle: accessed ), memorial page for Sarah Day Stehle (Feb 1833–12 Feb 1875), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33974541, citing Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Oakland County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by 59er (contributor 49423200).