Sarah Jane Bowers was named after her two grandmothers and was always called by both names, owing Sarah to her paternal grandmother, Sarah Sawin, and Jane to her maternal grandmother, Jane Dinsmore. Sarah was not stout like her mother, and she had larger eyes, and a more open and luminous face. She had a more versatile intelligence, more varied tastes, and a better education than her mother.
Sarah spent her childhood getting all the training that could be got in the nearby district school where she became acquainted with Granville Gates, a year and a half her senior. She began teaching at the early age of fourteen, and it was a source of pride to her family throughout their lives. She also had a class in Sunday school, usually of young ladies.
She married the Rev. Granville Gates 19 Sep 1850 in Maine, Broome, New York. No two persons could be more absolute opposites. Not only were they different in physical stature, but Granville's motions were usually somewhat slow and negligent as befitted his sedentary pursuits, while Sarah's step was quick, firm, confident, and graceful. Granville did not shrink from physical labor, but his energy was by preference mental rather than physical. Sarah on the other hand, could give to what she was doing an undivided attention, and she took great pleasure in doing those things which require special deftness and the exercise of taste.
She was a beautiful seamstress, made lovely artificial flowers, and painted charming flower pictures. During the Civil War period she used to remove the plush from Granville's over worn silk hats, renovate it, cover a bonnet frame with it, and deck the whole with flowers of her own manufacture.
Granville's conversation was by preference on religion, doctrine, and on matters of the soul. While Sarah's mind was on affairs and business of the household or events in the community or nation. Sarah was kindly and sympathetic, a good neighbor, a faithful friend, and her life was one of continuous toil and sacrifice for others. She had executive efficiency, energy, vigilance, self-reliance, boldness, combined with unfailing common sense, tact, and shrewd judgment of men.
In 1867 they moved the family to the vicinity of Highland, Kansas, where Rev Gates spent the rest of his active professional life as superintendent of Baptist home missions.
Sarah was too nervous and high strung to be at any time in good health. She was often sleepless, and often had neuralgia (An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve).
During her last year in Kansas she caught malaria which thought neglect and misdiagnosis became a chronic condition. The usual sequence of such neglect is acute inflammation of the liver (Chronic Interstitial Hepatitis) This resulted in her death at the age of seventy-three. Both Granville died in Montclair, NJ and were buried in the Mt. Hebron Cemetery in the Gates's family plot. (Bio by Frederick Taylor Gates)
Sarah spent her childhood getting all the training that could be got in the nearby district school where she became acquainted with Granville Gates, a year and a half her senior. She began teaching at the early age of fourteen, and it was a source of pride to her family throughout their lives. She also had a class in Sunday school, usually of young ladies.
She married the Rev. Granville Gates 19 Sep 1850 in Maine, Broome, New York. No two persons could be more absolute opposites. Not only were they different in physical stature, but Granville's motions were usually somewhat slow and negligent as befitted his sedentary pursuits, while Sarah's step was quick, firm, confident, and graceful. Granville did not shrink from physical labor, but his energy was by preference mental rather than physical. Sarah on the other hand, could give to what she was doing an undivided attention, and she took great pleasure in doing those things which require special deftness and the exercise of taste.
She was a beautiful seamstress, made lovely artificial flowers, and painted charming flower pictures. During the Civil War period she used to remove the plush from Granville's over worn silk hats, renovate it, cover a bonnet frame with it, and deck the whole with flowers of her own manufacture.
Granville's conversation was by preference on religion, doctrine, and on matters of the soul. While Sarah's mind was on affairs and business of the household or events in the community or nation. Sarah was kindly and sympathetic, a good neighbor, a faithful friend, and her life was one of continuous toil and sacrifice for others. She had executive efficiency, energy, vigilance, self-reliance, boldness, combined with unfailing common sense, tact, and shrewd judgment of men.
In 1867 they moved the family to the vicinity of Highland, Kansas, where Rev Gates spent the rest of his active professional life as superintendent of Baptist home missions.
Sarah was too nervous and high strung to be at any time in good health. She was often sleepless, and often had neuralgia (An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve).
During her last year in Kansas she caught malaria which thought neglect and misdiagnosis became a chronic condition. The usual sequence of such neglect is acute inflammation of the liver (Chronic Interstitial Hepatitis) This resulted in her death at the age of seventy-three. Both Granville died in Montclair, NJ and were buried in the Mt. Hebron Cemetery in the Gates's family plot. (Bio by Frederick Taylor Gates)
Sarah Jane Bowers was named after her two grandmothers and was always called by both names, owing Sarah to her paternal grandmother, Sarah Sawin, and Jane to her maternal grandmother, Jane Dinsmore. Sarah was not stout like her mother, and she had larger eyes, and a more open and luminous face. She had a more versatile intelligence, more varied tastes, and a better education than her mother.
Sarah spent her childhood getting all the training that could be got in the nearby district school where she became acquainted with Granville Gates, a year and a half her senior. She began teaching at the early age of fourteen, and it was a source of pride to her family throughout their lives. She also had a class in Sunday school, usually of young ladies.
She married the Rev. Granville Gates 19 Sep 1850 in Maine, Broome, New York. No two persons could be more absolute opposites. Not only were they different in physical stature, but Granville's motions were usually somewhat slow and negligent as befitted his sedentary pursuits, while Sarah's step was quick, firm, confident, and graceful. Granville did not shrink from physical labor, but his energy was by preference mental rather than physical. Sarah on the other hand, could give to what she was doing an undivided attention, and she took great pleasure in doing those things which require special deftness and the exercise of taste.
She was a beautiful seamstress, made lovely artificial flowers, and painted charming flower pictures. During the Civil War period she used to remove the plush from Granville's over worn silk hats, renovate it, cover a bonnet frame with it, and deck the whole with flowers of her own manufacture.
Granville's conversation was by preference on religion, doctrine, and on matters of the soul. While Sarah's mind was on affairs and business of the household or events in the community or nation. Sarah was kindly and sympathetic, a good neighbor, a faithful friend, and her life was one of continuous toil and sacrifice for others. She had executive efficiency, energy, vigilance, self-reliance, boldness, combined with unfailing common sense, tact, and shrewd judgment of men.
In 1867 they moved the family to the vicinity of Highland, Kansas, where Rev Gates spent the rest of his active professional life as superintendent of Baptist home missions.
Sarah was too nervous and high strung to be at any time in good health. She was often sleepless, and often had neuralgia (An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve).
During her last year in Kansas she caught malaria which thought neglect and misdiagnosis became a chronic condition. The usual sequence of such neglect is acute inflammation of the liver (Chronic Interstitial Hepatitis) This resulted in her death at the age of seventy-three. Both Granville died in Montclair, NJ and were buried in the Mt. Hebron Cemetery in the Gates's family plot. (Bio by Frederick Taylor Gates)
Sarah spent her childhood getting all the training that could be got in the nearby district school where she became acquainted with Granville Gates, a year and a half her senior. She began teaching at the early age of fourteen, and it was a source of pride to her family throughout their lives. She also had a class in Sunday school, usually of young ladies.
She married the Rev. Granville Gates 19 Sep 1850 in Maine, Broome, New York. No two persons could be more absolute opposites. Not only were they different in physical stature, but Granville's motions were usually somewhat slow and negligent as befitted his sedentary pursuits, while Sarah's step was quick, firm, confident, and graceful. Granville did not shrink from physical labor, but his energy was by preference mental rather than physical. Sarah on the other hand, could give to what she was doing an undivided attention, and she took great pleasure in doing those things which require special deftness and the exercise of taste.
She was a beautiful seamstress, made lovely artificial flowers, and painted charming flower pictures. During the Civil War period she used to remove the plush from Granville's over worn silk hats, renovate it, cover a bonnet frame with it, and deck the whole with flowers of her own manufacture.
Granville's conversation was by preference on religion, doctrine, and on matters of the soul. While Sarah's mind was on affairs and business of the household or events in the community or nation. Sarah was kindly and sympathetic, a good neighbor, a faithful friend, and her life was one of continuous toil and sacrifice for others. She had executive efficiency, energy, vigilance, self-reliance, boldness, combined with unfailing common sense, tact, and shrewd judgment of men.
In 1867 they moved the family to the vicinity of Highland, Kansas, where Rev Gates spent the rest of his active professional life as superintendent of Baptist home missions.
Sarah was too nervous and high strung to be at any time in good health. She was often sleepless, and often had neuralgia (An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve).
During her last year in Kansas she caught malaria which thought neglect and misdiagnosis became a chronic condition. The usual sequence of such neglect is acute inflammation of the liver (Chronic Interstitial Hepatitis) This resulted in her death at the age of seventy-three. Both Granville died in Montclair, NJ and were buried in the Mt. Hebron Cemetery in the Gates's family plot. (Bio by Frederick Taylor Gates)
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