Sarah Catherine (Rue) Sink (1823 - 1881)

Born 11 Mar 1823 in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Jackson Sink — married 4 Mar 1841 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Descendants

Died 3 Jun 1881 at age 58 in Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States

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Biography

Sarah Catherine Rue was born on March 11, 1823 to Matthew Matthias Rue and Charlotte Higgins, but became an orphan before she was seven years old. She was sent to live with Samuel Jennings who ran a hotel in Lockport New York, where she recalled witnessing the origins of the Joseph Smith's Copper. tablets. She married hotelier and businessman Andrew Jackson Sink in 1841, and had four children with him, before dying of cancer on June 3, 1881.

Space:Mrs. Sarah C. Sink's Recollections of the Origin of Joe Smith's Copper Tablets

Sources

• Marriage 4 Mar 1841 Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 1078; Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

• Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 089 : 1911 Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. [1]

• Year: 1850; Census Place: Rome, Oneida, New York; Roll: M432_565; Page: 37B; Image: 82 Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.[[2]]

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVL-3Z3F : 11 July 2016), Sarah Catherine Rue Sink, ; Burial, Rome, Oneida, New York, United States of America, Rome Cemetery; citing record ID 17644769, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1875 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Census of the state of New York, for 1875. Microfilm. New York State Archives, Albany, New York. Citing Sarah C Sink in houseold of Andrew J. Sink.

• "Mrs.Sarah C. Sink's Recollections of the Origin of Joe Smiths' Copper Tablets," Notes preserved by Capt H.H. Cummings. Image:Rue-306.pdf