Sarah Hershom1

F, (1742 - 28 April 1821)
Family Lines
Boudreau Line
Last Edited=29 Feb 2024
Gravestone of Sarah (Hodgdon) Lord
     Sarah Hershom was born in 1742 at Berwick, Maine.1,2 Sarah Hershom was also known as Sarah Herson or Hodgdon. What is the exact spelling is anybody's guess.

Sarah Hershom married Ebenezer Lord Jr., age 24 , son of Captain Ebenezer Lord and Martha Emery, on 6 April 1769 at Second Churchin Berwick, Berwick, Maine.3,4,5,1 Sarah Hershom died on 28 April 1821 at Lebanon, Maine.1,2 She was buried on 8 May 1821 at Evergreen Cemetery, Berwick, Maine.2

Compeller's Notes:
Her birth year, 1842, is calculated from her gravestone. Geneanet Community Trees gives 1744. The death date is different as well.

I can find no reliable source for her parents.

Children of Sarah Hershom and Ebenezer Lord Jr.

Citations

  1. Geneanet. Geneanet Community Trees Index. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 2022.
  2. Find-a-Grave. Online https://www.findagrave.com/
  3. Maine State Archives. Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010.
  4. Hinton, Marietta Frances. "Records of the Second Church of Berwick, ME., 1755-1857", The New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume LXXIV (October 1920).
  5. Maine State Archives. Maine, Marriage Index, 1670-1921. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016.
  6. Ancestry.com. Ancestry Member Trees - Use with Caution. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations.
  7. Ancestral File.