Sarah Williamson Bird

b. 24 February 1802, d. circa 1879
  • Sarah Williamson Bird was born on 24 February 1802 in South Carolina.
  • She married Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, son of John Lamar and Rachel Lamar, on 10 March 1819 in Baldwin County, Georgia.
  • William Barnes Wood wrote on 1 August 1848, from Oxford, Georgia, in a letter to his mother Evelina Alexander Barnes Wood in Tuskegee, Alabama, "Judge L— resigned his office here because he thought he would get the Presidency in oxford Mississippi. He was certain he would he get it, but was disappointed. Some on[e] was a head of him. I was very sorry he was not Elected. He has quit taking boarders. I have engaged board at Mrs Lamars one of the most Respectable families in oxford.
  • Sarah Williamson Bird appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Newton County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Thompson Bird Lamar, Mary Ann Washburn Lamar and Jefferson Mirabeau Lamar. Also in the household were Sarah (age 20), possibly the wife of Jefferson; A. Lamar (age 18), relationship unknown; John Williamson (age 16), likely a relative of Sarah Williamson Bird; and eleven others who likely were boarders.
  • Sarah Williamson Bird died circa 1879 in Bibb County, Georgia.
  • Last Edited: 29 May 2014

Family: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar b. 15 July 1797, d. 4 July 1836