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Notes for Sarah "Sadie" Josephine Byrd

After her parents death she was placed at a ranch in the Hanford area with the prominent McQuiddy family as a bond servant. Her chores included care for the family children, and housework. It was here that she met Alphonso, who had also gotten a job at the ranch. It is unknown how she got released from being a bond servant, as the term was seven years. However, there is no record of a formal Bond in the Tulare County records. She married Alphonso when she was 17, and the McQuiddy's and Biddles were her witnesses. Catherine and Dorothy said that she rarely spoke about her family, and Catherine said she often seemed sad when the topic came up.

April 21, 1885 Tulare County certified that Alphonso Moon, native of New York, aged 21 years resident of Hanford, Tulare CO, CA and Sarah Byrd, Hanford, Tulare Co, CA being aged 17 and not of sufficient age to be capable of contracting marriage had the consent of her guardian in writing. The license was issued.

November 1900 "A large cat was treed near the Moon residence in Montalvo one day last week, and was shot and killed by Mrs. Moon who is an excellent marksman with a shotgun." reprinted in the Star-Free Press, November 1975 in a column entitled "Ventura County yesterdays"

Cause of Death: Bronchial Asthma with acute congestive heart failure
Medical Information: Sarah suffered extensively from asthma and allegedly she and Alphonso moved from Bardsdale to Santa Paula to be closer to the doctors.

She is a descendent of the Lady Margaret Campbell, the daughter of the Duke of Argyll, who was married to Michael Woods, and were some of the first of the large migration from Scotland of the Presbyterian Scotsmen, to the Virginia hill country in the 1730's
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