Sarah Millikin married Jonathan Walden in the winter of 1832 in Jackson County, Ohio. Their daughter, Mary Jane Walden, born the next fall, would marry Oliver C. Crookham (I) and migrate to Greenwood County, Kansas after the Civil War.
Sarah was born in 1810 in Pennsylvania according to the census records of 1850-1880. She died in 1896 and was buried in Pierce Mather’s Cemetery with Mrs. Jane Millikin, who had died in 1868 and her husband, Jonathan Walden who died in 1857. The cemetery is on land by Salt Creek owned first by W. W. Mather and later purchased by W. W. Pierce. Mather laid out the cemetery when his wife died in 1850 and deeded the cemetery to the town (History of Jackson County, Ohio) It is north of Jackson, off of Highway 35 on Pierce Mather Cemetery Road. Both Mather and Walden were Baptists and had founded the Baptist Church in Jackson County, Ohio.
In 1840, Jonathan Waldron is listed in the census living in Liberty Township, to the west of Lick Township, where they would move to by 1850. In 1841, he purchased land from the government as part of the Ohio River Survey. It was along the road southwest of Oakland. The 1875 map of Jackson County with the detail of Liberty Township shows the presence of Coal and Ore deposits on the Waldon land. (7N-19W, Sec 15, SE1/4 SE1/4).
In 1850, Jonathan and Sarah lived in Lick Township, and were enumerated on the same page in the census as George L Crookham, who was the father of Oliver C. Crookham (I). The Crookhams had real estate valued at $3000 and the Waldens at $2000.
Oliver and Mary were already married and living in Jackson Township, enumerated immediately after Lawrence Crookham, Oliver’s brother. Lawrence had real estate valued at $18,000.
By 1860, Sarah was widowed, and she was living in Lick Township, on land valued at $4000 with her children.
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