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Sarah "Sallie" BURT[1]

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Name Sarah "Sallie" BURT Nickname Sallie Birth 1778 Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina [2]
Gender Female FamilySearch ID MY5B-BNF Name Sallie _UID A47C4EFA78C84C7EAFDEE072C94DE962B25B Death 16 May 1846 Dickson, Dickson, Tennessee Person ID I14001 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 15 Nov 2024
Father John BURT, Jr., b. Abt 1756, Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America d. May 1824, Wake County, North Carolina
(Age ~ 68 years)
Mother Priscilla SENTER, Hardy, b. 1760, Wake, North Carolina, British Colony d. 1820, Fuquay-Varina, Wake County, North Carolina
(Age 60 years)
Marriage 1778 Wake, North Carolina - eldest son b. abt 1780
Family ID F7498 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 William SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1778, Wake, North Carolina d. Abt 1829, Dickson County, Tennessee
(Age ~ 51 years)
Marriage 16 Sep 1799 Wake County, North Carolina Children 1. Albert S. SPEIGHT, b. 1800, Wake County, North Carolina d. Jun 1851, Dickson County, Tennessee
(Age 51 years)
2. Jesse H SPEIGHT, b. 1802, Tennessee d. Yes, date unknown
3. John T. Alsey SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1802, Dickson County, Tennessee d. Abt 1832, Dickson County, Tennessee
(Age ~ 30 years)
4. Jesse M. SPEIGHT, b. 1805, Dickson County, Tennessee d. 19 May 1852, Dickson County, Tennessee
(Age 47 years)
5. Mary SPEIGHT, b. Abt 1806, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown
6. John SPEIGHT, b. Aft 1808, Dickson County, TN d. Dickson County, TN
7. Kizziah C. SPEIGHT, Hunter, b. 1810, Tennessee d. 1864, Bellsburg, Dickson, Tennessee
(Age 54 years)
8. William D. SPEIGHT, b. 15 Feb 1811, Dickson County, Tennessee d. 8 Oct 1852, Dickson County, Tennessee
(Age 41 years)
Family ID F7241 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Nov 2024
Family 2 Washington A. HUNTER, b. Abt 1770, Possibly Pitt, North Carolina d. Aft 1840, Dickson County, Tennessee
(Age ~ 71 years)
Marriage 1823 Wake, North Carolina Family ID F7242 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - Named in her father's will as "daughter Sally Hunter" (second husband).
Surname variation: Bish, Burt, Birt
I believe that Sarah and her children are living in the household of Washington Hunter in the 1820 census. Washington Hunter was made guardian of her 2 youngest boys.
Marriages and Lineage Proof:
Abstract from The SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1838-1846
By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2003
JULY-DECEMBER 1846
(Page 77)
July 3, 1846
SARAH HUNTER wife of Washington Hunter, esq.; born Wake Co., N.C.; daughter of John Burt; married William Speight and moved to Dickson Co., Tenn.; he died and she married Hunter; She died May 16, 1846.
- Named in her father's will as "daughter Sally Hunter" (second husband).
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Sources - [S749] Fred Holmes.
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Sarah "Sallie" BURT, person ID MY5B-BNF. (Reliability: 3).
- [S749] Fred Holmes.