More on Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Harrod

Chris here.

Im my previous post I described piecing together the story behind an ambrotype image in Jen's collection. I have found a little bit more about the Mr. William A. Harrod and his wife Sarah M. "Sallie" Brown(e).

From this website I have learned that in April of 1863 Sallie gave birth to William L. Harrod. Considering that William A. Harrod and Sallie were wed in July of 1862 they wasted little time in starting a family.

After William A.'s death in 1863, Sallie and little William went to live with her grandparents (her parents evidently being deceased). Sallie remarried in 1871 to one George J. James with whom she had a daughter, Cora, the following year. Like many of the people in Sallie's life, George James appears to not have been exceptionally long-lived as on the 1880 census "Sarah M. James" is listed as the head of household and a widower. She last turns up on the 1900 census living with her daughter and son-in-law with the occupation of "lecturer."

Her son with with William A. Harrod, William L. Harrod, moved to California with his family and William L.'s son, William Newell Harrod, died in the Golden State 1950.

William N. married in 1924, but I have yet to find and record of children from that marriage... (why do I suspect there is yet another William Harrod?) of course, on-line geneaology searches are hampered as records of living people and census data after 1930 are not indexed in order to prevent identity theft.

It is amazing the stories one little image can unlock sometimes.

To be continued...