Sarah Jane Beacher ^{7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14}

   Other names for Sarah were Sallie Beacher ¹⁵ and Sadie Beecher.^{2 7 19 20 21}

   FamilySearch ID: L8BL-R9Z.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Fact: Sadie was the daughter of Benjamin Beacher but lived much of her life with her Uncle Hiram Beecher.

2. Census in 1880 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA. ⁸ Hiram Becher, coal miner, 38, was married to wife Henrietta, 31. Living with them: Lilly May, 12; Sarah Jane, 10; Edith, 7; and Willie, 5. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Census in 1880 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA. ¹⁵ The 1880 census recorded on Center Street in Shenandoah: Benjamin Beacher, miner, 35, living with wife, Sarah Jane, 33; daughters Emma, 10, Laura, 8, Sallie, 6, and Angeline, 5, son Benjamin, 3, and daughter Mary, 1. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. She was divorced on 1 Jul 1895 in , Schuylkill, PA. ²²

5. Newspaper: Miners Journal: Matrimonial Misfits: A divorce was granted Sadie Mervine from Elias Mervine., 2 Jul 1895, Pottsville, Schuylkill, PA. ²³

6. Newspaper: Pottsville Republican: Marriage licenses were granted to George W. Blew and Sadie Merwine, of Mahanoy City, 5 Jul 1895, Pottsville, Schuylkill, PA. ⁴

7. Residence: on 5 Jul 1895 in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill, PA. ²²

8. Census in 1900 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ²⁴ The 1900 census recorded living on Maple Street West: George W. Blue, coal miner, 29, born Feb 1881, living with wife Sadie, 29, born May 1881; and son Harry, 12, Mar 1888. George and Sadie were married for 5 years and she had birthed one child by 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

9. Residence: in 1909 in Visalia, Tulare, CA. According to elder Beecher family members who spoke to family historian Bruce Franklin Beacher, Sadie (also called Sallie and Sarah Jane) was handicapped in a horse runaway accident as a child and starting about 1880 lived with her uncle, Hiram Beecher, of Mount Carmel. At a young age she fathered a child with Elias Mervine. Her second husband was Hiram's co-worker, Wilson Blew, who was injured with Hiram in a 1908 mine accident. In 1910 they moved to California, including her son, Harry Mervine.

10. Newspaper: Mount Carmel Item: "A party of twelve consisting of Harry Blue, William Beecher, wife and family and H. Beecher left this morning on the Reading for Tulare, Cal. The party will go into the homestead territory and stake up a tract of land they will farm.", 14 Apr 1910, Mount Carmel Twp., Northumberland, PA. ²⁵

11. Census in 1910 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ³ The 1910 census recorded at 304 E. Seventh Street: Wilson Blew, coal miner, 40, living with wife Sadie, 40. They were married for 14 years, Wilson's first marriage and Sadie's second marriage. She had birthed 1 child by 1910 who was still alive that year. Next door is Sadie's sister, Edith HIlbert, with her family.

12. Census in 1900 in Mount Carmel Twp., Northumberland, PA. ²⁶ Hiram Beecher (age 57, born Jul 1843) is listed in the 1900 Census as a household head living on the west side of Oak Street in Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His wife is listed as Etta (51, born Sep 1848). Living with them is son Wilhelm J. (24, born May, 1876). Both father and son are employed as coal miners. Henrietta is listed as having given birth to 4 children, all of whom were living in 1900. Living in the same building as a boarder is Sadie Beecher, his daughter, born Feb 1874 and single, occupation servant.

13. Residence: on 4 Feb 1911 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, CA.

14. Residence: in 1914 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁶

15. Thomas and Sarah obtained a marriage license on 26 May 1914 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁶ William Mc Connell
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 54
Race: white
Marital Status: widowed
Number of Marriages: 1
Birthplace: Missouri
Occupation: common labor
Father: William McConnell
Father's birthplace: Virginia
Mother: May Hulbert
Mother's birthplace: Michigan

Sarah Beacher
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 35
Race: white
Marital Status: single
Number of Marriages: none
Birthplace: Shenandoah, PA
Occupation: house work
Father: Benjamin Beacher
Father's birthplace: unknown
Mother: Sarah Jacobs
Mother's birthplace: unknown.

16. Census in 1920 in O'Neal Twp., San Joaquin, CA. ²⁷ The 1920 census recorded William M. Mcconnell, laborer, 60, born in Missouri, living with wife Sadie J., 35, born in Pennsylvania. William's father was born in Pennsylvania, his mother in Michigan.

17. Residence: 1400 N. Court St., Visalia, Tulare, California. In 1924 in Visalia, Tulare, CA. ¹⁸

18. The 1930 census recorded at Stockton State Hospital for Insane: Sarah J. McConnell, inmate, 56, born in Pennsylvania. [indexed incorrectly as Sarah S. McCornell], census in 1930 in Stockton, San Joaquin, CA. ²⁸

19. The 1940 census recorded at Stockton State Hospital for Insane: Sarah J. McConnell, inmate, 66, married, born in Pennsylvania. Census in 1940 in Stockton Judicial Twp., San Joaquin, CA. ²⁹

20. Residence: on 23 Dec 1949 in , , CA. ¹³

21. Census in 1950 in Stockton, San Joaquin, CA. ³⁰ The 1950 census recorded as a patient in the Insane Asylum at Stockton State Hospital: Sarah Jane McConnell, 76, born in Pennsylvania.

22. Book: History of the Beacher Family, 1970. ³¹
The following narrative was typewritten in 1970 by Hazel Horrox Miller, niece of Hiram Beecher: "Sarah Jane or Sallie Beacher [daughter of Benjamin F. Beacher Sr.] never married and lived with B.F. Beacher Sr.'s brother Hiram or Hyle Beacher most of her life in Mt. Carmel. Hyle or Hiram was married and in the 1930's Hyle and his 4 children - Lillian, Sadie, William and Edith, their husbands & children and Ma's sister Sallie all went to Fresno, Cal. They wrote to Ma [Emma Margaret Beacher, daughter of B.F. Sr.] for awhile but nothing has been heard from them in late years."

[Correction by Jonathan Beacher: From birth and census data we know Hiram went to California in 1910, not in the 1930's as Hazel states.].

Sarah married Elias Mervine, son of Philip Mervine and Anna Maria Shearer, on 22 Aug 1887 in , Schuylkill, PA.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorce on 1 Jul 1895. (Elias Mervine was born on 16 Mar 1860 in Ringtown, Schuylkill, PA,^{20 32 33} died on 12 Sep 1929 in Ringtown, Schuylkill, PA ^{20 33} and was buried on 16 Sep 1929 in Ringtown: St. Paul's Lutheran & Reformed Church (White Church), Schuylkill, PA ^{20 33}.)

Sarah next married George Wilson Blew, son of Edward Blew and Lydia Garber, on 5 Jul 1895 in , Schuylkill, PA.^{3 4 5} (George Wilson Blew was born on 1 Apr 1870 in Ryan Township, Schuylkill, PA,^{3 34 35} died on 16 Jan 1943 in , Los Angeles, CA ^{34 35} and was buried in Cerritos: Artesia Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA ³⁵.)

Sarah next married John William McConnell, son of William McConnell and Maria Hulbert, on 26 May 1914 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.⁶ (John William McConnell was born about 1860 in Yellow Creek Township, Chariton, MO ^{6 27} and died before 1955 ¹⁸.)