Seeking info on Sarah MILLER in Sangamon Co. She was b. in Davidson Co. TN 1809, came to Sangamon co. with relatives in 1828, according to the obit her husband, N.S. BASTION/BASTIAN wrote after her death in 1850. Unfortunately, he didn't name them and multiple queries to that list haven't provided any clues. Too common a name! Presumably they didn't include her parents, or he would have given their names? Whatever schooling she may or may not have had, the obit says she became the tutor to the children of Peter CARTWIGHT, the famous Methodist preacher and evangelist who later became a member of the IL legistlature. I've read CARTWRIGHT's autobiog and it doesn't mention her, but there's no reason it would. (They would have to have been the youngest ones.) It does mention BASTION, also a Methodist minister. I can't find her in the 1830 census, but the obit says that Sarah and BASTION met in 1833. Probably it was in Sangamon Co, because he was the minister of the Methodist church there for two years starting that y! ear. They were married in Athens, Sangamon Co, Dec. 3, 1835, and appear to have immediately left for Dubuque, where he was then a teacher. As he was never again assigned by the Methodists to a church in Sangamon Co., she never lived there again, but every year or two or three got transferred across the middle of the state, from Alton to Paris, Edgar Co., where their only child was b. after 13 years of marriage. The next year, 1849, They were sent as missionaries to Liberia. Six weeks after arrival, the baby died. Sarah set up a school for females. But she too died there. Except for the Liberia information, and his moves with the Methodists, everything I know about her comes from his obit of her or his Bible. I would love to have some other information, even though I descend from his second wife. Thanks, Doris Waggoner Seattle