Sarah S. Rusk ²

   FamilySearch ID: LJ5J-YJ9.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1870 in Shawnee Township, Fountain, IN. ³ The 1870 census recorded Josiah Rusk, farmer, 31, living with wife Melinda, 27; Jacob B., 5; Sarah S., 3; and John, 2. Everyone was born in Indiana. The post office was Attica.

2. Census in 1880 in Shawnee Township, Fountain, IN. ⁴ The 1880 census recorded Josiah Rusk, farmer, 40, living with wife Melinda, 37; Sarah S., 14; John, 11; Albert, 7; Ellen 5; and Miranda, 2. Everyone was born in Indiana. Josiah's father was born in Ohio and mother in Maryland. Melinda's father was born in Pennsylvania and mother in Indiana.

3. Census in 1900 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL. ⁵ The 1900 census recorded owning a home: Phineas Remster, farmer, 38, born Nov 1862, living with wife Sarah, 34, Aug 1866; Robert, 6, Aug 1894; Pearl, 4, Sep 1896; Ora, 1, Aug 1899. The parents were born in Indiana their children in Illinois. Everyone's parents were born in Indiana except Phineas' father in New Jersey. Sarah was married for 9 years to Phineas and she had birthed 3 children, all alive in 1900. Also in the home is servant Martha Lingley, 19, Dec 1881, born in Indiana.

Sarah married Phineas T. Remster on 12 Jan 1891 in Vermilion, Illinois.¹ (Phineas T. Remster was born on 10 Nov 1862 in Attica, Fountain, IN,⁶ died on 12 Apr 1932 in Lebanon, Boone, IN ⁶ and was buried on 15 Apr 1932 in , Iroquois, IL ^{6 7}.)