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From: "Robert Cooper Moor" <>
Subject: LOWER-DELAWARE COW MARSH 1850
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:01:37 -0500

SARAH ANN MEREDITH SHERWOOD, [29 SEP1830-12 AUG1917]
Petersburg, Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware

The Cow Marsh

Sarah's family was from Wales, and were Old School, Primitive
Baptists, who attended Mount Moriah on the Cow Marsh. Petersburg,
Delaware was little hamlet on the Goldsboro Road which was made up
mostly by the COOPER, LOWBER, HATFIELD AND SHERWOOD family. She was
the only daughter of Elder Peter MEREDITH [1789-1863] of the Cow
Marsh Old School Baptist Church and Sarah Ann COOPER [1798-1858]. At
age 15 she made a needlework sampler for her mother with the initials
of her siblings - that read: PM SM EM TCM JM PM WM SAM WW. She
lived on North-side of Goldsboro Road, west of the Petersburg
Intersection, in a large home. Her father was a farmer, preacher,
soldier and a blacksmith. He served as Lieutenant in the War of
1812.

Sarah's Father also owned a wheelwright shop, where he
manufactured carriages, wagons and other farm implements. Peter also
founded 'Mount Moriah' , the Cow Marsh Church on land he donated.
Sarah's Mother was Sarah Ann COOPER, her namesake. Sarah loved
singing and played the accordion. She always won at Spelling Bee's
and was the beloved sister of her eight brothers. She attended a one
room, rural, public School in Delaware. She traveled to Philadelphia
by boat to be married to Jesse SHERWOOD, III, [b. 18 DEC 1825] on 12
APRIL 1849, by The Rev DR Ignatus Cooper, D.D., a Cousin in their
Parsonage. Jesse SHERWOOD was one of the original Incorporators of
the COOPER Cemetery that is SW of Dover, Delaware. After fathering
eleven children, Jesse SHERWOOD "died from swallowing a mountain
cherry seed" on 25 APRIL 1871.

Wherefore, the marriages of seven of her ten children took place
at the farm-home of Abraham MOOR[e], the Cherry Hill Farm on Moore's
Lane in New Castle, New Castle County Delaware. One son John Edwin
SHERWOOD was a farmer on the Welsh Tract outside of Newark. The
others were: Elizabeth, Lucy Anne, Lydia Jane, Peter Enos, James
Madison, Margaret, Fannie, Elmira, Charlie and Susan SHERWOOD.

4. John HERSON burnt their barn down because they would not take him
with them to visit her parents. In 1872 Sarah Meredith SHERWOOD had
to move to Stanton, Delaware with ten of her eleven children to work
in a woolen mill to keep her family together. She rented her house
to Richard Broadway COOPER and his wife Mary Fletcher SHERWOOD who
had eleven children, one, Emma Hildrup COOPER - last to be born -
was my paternal Grandmother who married Benjamin Husbands MOOR, Jr.
on Bay Road, removed to Black Cat, New Castle County, [US RT. 40 & 13
split], Delaware and LATER to the farm north of Middletown, Delaware
at Mount Pleasant..

5. Sarah later sold this house in Petersburg, Delaware to her brother
Ezekiel Cooper MEREDITH in 1885. The house was razed in 1910.

Robert Cooper Moor, PO Box 5, Hockessin, DE 19707-0005
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Delaware
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Delaware Historical Records Advisory Board [DHRAB]
http://del-aware.lib.de.us/archives
Delaware Genealogical Society [DGS]
http://delgensoc.org
Aircraft Owners and Pilot's Association [AOPA]
http://www.aopa.org

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