From the limited information I have been able to find about her, she was born Sarah Cinderella Bennett abt 1863 in Montgomery County Indiana. Her parents were Caleb and Martha Miller Bennett, they are still livng in the 1870 Montgomery census, then in the 1880 census, the mother Martha is remarried to a John Sexton ( have not been able to find any information about him), and Sarah Cinderella is not listed with them, so think she was already married but have not been able to find her in any 1880 census. Then in the 1900 Decatur census she is living with her brother Albert Sexton on pg 19b. Since I have been unable to find her in a census with a husband or her marriage record I do not have her husbands name. I have found her in the 1920 living back in Montgomery County with a husband Frank Fletcher from Maine. I am just trying to find out what happened to her in Decatur, while she was living in that house her niece Minnie Bennett born 1891 gave birth to my grandmother, who was adopted out. and I have been unable to locate what happened to Minnie Bennett , the adoption record (1907) is the last record I have been able to find for her, so think locating what happened with her aunt will help me locate Minnie. I guess since I have been unable to find any inforamtion about John Sexton before he married Martha Bennett, the Sarah Ray in the 1900 census could be his child from a previous marriage, but his obit doesn't say anything about kids other than Martha's. Jean > Jean, when was your Sarah Bennett born? Did Sarah have a middle initial? Do > you know about when she was married? What's her husband's first name? I've > tried different spellings of Sara and that doesn't work. I found a Sarah > Bennett marrying a Jason Ray on 15 Mar 1852 in Warren Co., Illinois, and a Sarah > C. Bennett marrying a Henry Ray on 25 Oct 1883 Vermillion Co., Illinois. > > In the 1880 census, I found Sarah F. Ray, 40, born in Indiana in Aetna, > Logan, Il., and Sarah E. Ray, age 30, from Indiana in Island Grove, Sangamon > Co., > Illinois. My computer is so slow tonight that I'm going to have to give up on > pulling up all the census and go visit with my husband. > > In the 1860 Indiana (Crawfordsville) census, there was a Sarah Bennett, age > 26, living with a minister and his family (I couldn't read the last name). She > was born in England. > > I was not able to pull up Sarah Ray in the 1910 Illinois census, and I didn't > see her in the 1990 under her name; but that doesn't mean she isn't there, > just not on a by name entry. Sometimes I have to go to the state and start that > way. No more time tonight. > > Give me a little more info and I'll see what I can find for you. > > > ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== > Visit the Macon County ILGenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacon/ >