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Sarah Rowan

Kelble & Rowan Generation 4 back

Ben’s great-great-grandmother, from the Irish Rowan family of Xenia.

Born
May 13, 1861 (one record: March 15, 1861) · Xenia, Greene County, Ohio
Died
November 29, 1927 · S. West Street, Xenia, Ohio
Married
October 20, 1891, at St. Brigid’s Church in Xenia, Ohio

Photos

Sarah Rowan.
Sarah Rowan.
Mrs Fitzgerald, left; Sarah Rowan Kelble, right; Maggie Glynn Clark, seated.
Mrs Fitzgerald, left; Sarah Rowan Kelble, right; Maggie Glynn Clark, seated.
Amon Sara Wedding.
Amon Sara Wedding.
Amon E and Sarah Rowan Kelble.
Amon E and Sarah Rowan Kelble.
Generations.
Generations.
Sarah Rowan Kelble born 1861.
Sarah Rowan Kelble born 1861.

Family

Father
John Rowan
Mother
Sarah Cullen
Child in this line
Francis Rowan Kelble
Spouse
Amon E Kelble

Children

Siblings

In brief

1860s

Born 13 May 1861 in Xenia, Ohio, into the Irish Rowan family — her father John Rowan and mother Sarah Cullen.

1890s

Married Amon E Kelble at St. Brigid's Church, Xenia, on 20 October 1891; her sister Katie was maid of honor. Son Francis was born in 1892.

1900s–1920s

Kept the household on South West Street, Xenia. Died there on 29 November 1927.

Life story

An Ohio Childhood

Sarah Rowan was born in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio — the records give either May 13 or March 15, 1861 — to the Irish immigrant family of John Rowan and Sarah Cullen. She had at least one sister, Catherine “Katie” Rowan, who married Lewis Heaton; the two sisters' families remained close for the rest of Sarah's life.

Marriage and a Growing Family

Sarah married Amon E. Kelble at St. Brigid's Church in Xenia on October 20, 1891, and the couple settled first in a cottage on Spring Hill before moving through a series of Xenia addresses, finally to 249 South West Street, where they would live for over two decades. In June 1893 the couple hosted a wedding reception at their home for Sarah's sister Katie.

A Life Centered on Family

As her sons Francis and John Kelble grew up, married, and settled in Columbus and Philadelphia, Sarah's later years took on a steady rhythm of visiting and being visited: trips to see Francis's family in Lima and Philadelphia during the First World War, regular holiday gatherings in Xenia at Christmas and Easter for both sons' households, and summers when her grandchildren John and Francis came to stay with her during their school vacation. In September 1917 she and Amon hosted a farewell dinner for three young Xenia men leaving for military training at Chillicothe. Illness became a more frequent visitor in her final years — a bout of flu in 1922, a severe attack of rheumatism in 1924, a hospital stay that November for an operation, and a further illness in 1925 — before a final decline in late 1927. She rallied briefly in mid-November but suffered a relapse, and died at home on South West Street on November 29, 1927, at the age of sixty-six.

At a glance

Lived
Beaver Creek, Greene County, Ohio
Sources (73)
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