Sarah Gayle

b. 18 December 1774, d. 2 May 1848
  • Sarah Gayle was born on 18 December 1774 in South Carolina.
  • She married Abijah Rembert II, son of Abijah Rembert and Elizabeth English, say 1795.
  • Sarah Gayle died on 2 May 1848 at age 73 in Dayton, Marengo County, Alabama.
  • She was interred at Dayton Cemetery, Dayton, Marengo County, Alabama.
  • The following appeared in in the Fall 1997 issue of The Plume, quarterly publication of the DeSoto Historical Society:
                        William Erasmus Rembert, DeSoto Parish Physician/Farmer
    Dr. William Erasmus Rembert, (often called 'Uncle Billy') was born in Selma, Alabama on 4 December 1840. He was the oldest of five children of Dr. Abijah Richard and Emily Alabama (Hale) Rembert. His (William's) father was a physician and from family accounts was sent from South Carolina to Paris, France for his medical education. When he returned home in the late 1830's his father (Abijah II) was dead and his mother (Sarah Gayle) had moved with her four daughters to the south-central counties of Alabama.
         Author: Franklin C. Rembert Jr., MD, Dallas, TX.
  • Last Edited: 13 Apr 2012

Family: Abijah Rembert II b. say 1775, d. circa 1835