Sarah Mildred Gilmer
b. 12 January 1829, d. 27 November 1902
- Father: George Oglethorpe Gilmer
- Mother: Martha Harvie Johnson
- Sarah Mildred Gilmer was born on 12 January 1829 in Alabama.
- She married Leonidas Pendleton Spyker on 19 September 1844 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
- Leonidas Pendleton Spyker and Sarah Mildred Gilmer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, and also children Pauline and Mary E., and overseer Chas R. King.
- Leonidas Pendleton Spyker and Sarah Mildred Gilmer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Bastrop PO, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, with five children (Pauline G., Mary E., George A., David B., and Martha G.) and probably Leonidas' father, Benjamin F. Spyker, age 72, born in Pennsylvania.
- Sarah Mildred Gilmer became a widow at the 19 November 1867 death of her husband Leonidas Pendleton Spyker.
- At the time of her death Sarah Mildred Gilmer was living in Philadelphia, Pensylvania, at 1629 Spruce Street.
- Sarah Mildred Gilmer died on 27 November 1902 at age 73 in Philadelphia, Pensylvania.
- She was interred at Lafayette Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
- Research Note: L. P. Spyker's wife Sarah Gilmer was a sister of R. C. Cummings' mother-in-law Paulina de Graffenreid's second husband James Blair Gilmer.
- Last Edited: 29 Jul 2014