Sarah D Shackford, the daughter of Samuel and Susannah (Hobbs) Shackford was born Feb 5, 1815. Sources differ on the location of her birth – Samuel Burnham Shackford says Maine, her death record says New York, the 1850 census says Vermont, the 1860 census says New York. We do know that she was the second child in a family that raised eight daughters on a farm in New York and was 16 when her father died.
Sarah was about 25 when she married David Hill, a 53 year old farmer widower with five children. We assume they married around 1840 as she and David then had four children, the first of which was born in 1842. David died on July 18, 1865 in Waterbury where he was buried.
Around four years later, Sarah married Charles Atkins, a widow with six children. We know they were living in Chittenden County and were married before Mar 30, 1869 because on that date Charles and his wife Sarah D Atkins sold land that Sarah had purchased while then Sarah D Hill. In 1870 they were still living in Bolton in a home with two of Charles’ sons and a daughter. By 1880 they were living in Duxbury where Charles worked as a laborer. Charles died on January 5, 1894 and was buried in the Duxbury Corner Cemetery in Duxbury, Vermont.
After Charles’ death, Sarah moved into a house with one of Charles’ daughters – Ida and remained in Duxbury until her death of old age and chronic diabetes at age 88 on December 11, 1903. She was buried next to Charles. An obituary was published in The Waterbury Record on December 15th – “Mrs Sarah D. Atkins, widow of the late Charles Atkins died last Fri. She was 89 years of age.”
CHILDREN:
Huldah J Hill (1842-1864) – married Rufus Place and died the next year
Lydia Susan Hill (1844-1915) – married Rufus Place after her sister died
Betsy G Hill ((1846-1886) – married John A Brown
Rosanna Mandana Hill (1852-1910) – married Vernon Alonzo Dillingham
Note: Some individuals on Ancestry have Sarah Shackford incorrectly showing as born in Nov 1814 in Chester with a death date of January 1880 in Boston. This Sarah Shackford was the daughter of Samuel Shackford and Hannah Currier and married William Adams Rice. We will try to message these folks and ask them to list the correct birth and death dates and the correct parents to prevent this error from being copied by others.
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SOURCES:
1850 US Federal Census, Washington County, population schedule, Waterbury, dwelling 2005, family 2015, David Hill; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 15 March 2016).
1860 US Federal Census, Washington County, population schedule, Waterbury, Page No 172, dwelling 1307, family 1387, David Hill; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 15 March 2016).
1870 United States Federal Census, Chittenden County, Vermont, population schedule, Bolton, Page No 11, stamped 477, dwelling 98, family 87, John Adkin; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 March 2024).
1880 US Federal Census, Washington County, population schedule, Duxbury, Page No 185, dwelling 182, family 193, Charles Atkins; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed ).
1900 US Federal Census, Washington County, population schedule, Duxbury, enumeration district (ED) 2-23, Sheet No 1B, dwelling 20, family 20, Sarah Atkins in household of Joel T Davis; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 10 February 2024).
“Find A Grave Index,” Index, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 16 March 2016), Charles Atkins, Find A Grave Memorial# 94023174.
Find a Grave, Find A Grave, digital images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 6 March 2016), Sarah D Shackford Atkins, Find A Grave Memorial# 94023176.
Shackford Samuel Burnham, “Shackford Genealogy Manuscript,” # 246 Sarah Shackford; SG SHA 5, Folder (56) William Shackford, New England Historical and Genealogical Society (donated 13 Oct 1925), Boston, Massachusetts.
Vermont, Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908, , Charles Atkins, 5 January 1894; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 March 2016).
“Waterbury. Deeds 1862–1872,” digital images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org : accessed 10 March 2024), Charles Atkins and Wife Sarah D Atkins (then Sarah D Hill); Image 285 of 622.
“Waterbury. Deeds 1862–1872,” digital images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org : accessed 18 March 2024), Lucius Colby and Lucy Ann Colby Sold Land to Sarah D Hill; Page 455, Image 268 of 616.
“WATERBURY,” The Vermont watchman (Montpelier, Vermont), 17 December 1903; digital images, Library of Congress Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 6 March 2016).
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