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Title: Seeking Sarah Maxwell, b. 1796, Edinburgh, Scotland
Posted by: Susan Nelson
Date: 23 September 2012

I am seeking the Scottish roots of my 3rd great grandmother, Sarah Maxwell, born 1796, in Edinburgh, Scotland.  She immigrated to the United States in the early 1800s and eventually married William Richie, who stated in various census documents that he was from Galway, Ireland. 

Sarah and William raised their nine children (Mathew b. unk, Letitia b. 1822, Matilda b. 1823, John b. 1824, William b. 1827, James b. 1829, Thomas b. 1834, David b. 1838, and Sarah Elizabeth b. 1840) in Jefferson and Niagara Counties, New York, as shown by the 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 U.S. Census.  She later lived with her youngest daughter, who married Noah Agustus Cone, and their children in Lucas County, Ohio. 

Sarah died 27 Jan 1882, and is buried beside her husband in the Orangeport Union-Gaskill Cemetery, in Royalton Center, Niagara, New York.

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