Elijah and Sarah
OSBORNE
Elijah and Sarah (Haines/Hanes/Haynes) Osborne were married about 1840. Family folklore say that they were both from Ohio. However, the census reports on Sarah give both Ohio and Indiana as her birthplace. She was born about 1825.
Elijah is a puzzle. I have found an Elija Osborn on the 1840 Linn County, Iowa census with a female age 15-20 which would be within Sarah's age range. I could not find any information on Elijah after the 1840 census.
There was an Elijah Osborn who married a Sarah Adams 6/23/1839 in Linn County. This could be the Elijah stated above. The reason that I don't think Sarah Adams and Sarah Hanes are one in the same person is that Sarah would have been about 15 at the time of her marriage. It seems unlikely that being of that tender age she would have been married before.
Sarah died 30 September 1896 and is buried in the Stanton Cemetery, Stanton Co., IA beside her then husband, James Chambers.
Elijah and Sarah (Haines) Osborne three children were:
1. Jerusha born abt. 1841 in Iowa.
2. Augustus born February 1843 in Iowa.
3. William born 9 October 1845 in Iowa.
Jerusha has not been found on the census records after the 1860 Linn County, Iowa census. It is thought that she may have married Asa C. Rogers but no marriage license has been found for her.
Sarah had remarried by 1850 to James Chambers and the three Osborne children were living with them. On the 1880 Polk Twp., Benton Co., IA census, Augustus and William, Augustus's son from his first marriage, were living with them. On that census, Augustus is listed as James's stepson and little William was listed as grandchild. This gives further evidence that Sarah was his mother and that she had married James Chambers.
If anyone knows the answer to this puzzle, please let me know. I have not been able to find anything more on Elijah and would like this solved.
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