Sarah Gleason

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Gleason was born on 9 May 1804, in Oakland, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Elijah Gleason, was 34 and her mother, Relief Young, was 33. She married Moses Corson about 1820, in Canaan, Somerset, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Canaan, Somerset, Maine, United States in 1850. She died on 23 September 1895, in Fairfield, Somerset, Maine, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in New Village Cemetery, Canaan, Somerset, Maine, United States.

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Family Time Line

Moses Corson
1799–1852
Sarah Gleason
1804–1895
Marriage: about 1820
Lysander Hartwell Corson
1823–1896
Elijah D. Corson
1825–1826
Elijah I. Corson
1827–
Relief Corson
1830–1866
Esther Corson
1833–1916
Sarah Corson
1835–1838
Benjamin F. Corson
1837–1901
Ann Angeline Corson
1839–1869
Hellen Marr Corson
1841–1843
Hellen A Corson
1843–1849
Sarah Augusta Corson
1846–1917

Sources (78)

  • Sarah Allen in household of William Allen, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Gleason - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Sarah
  • Sarah Gleason Corson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1820

Oldest grave in memorial list.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

Irish (Waterford): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Glasáin, from a diminutive of glas ‘green, blue, gray’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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