Sarah Elizabeth Hudson Wellons

Sarah was known as “Sally”. She was the wife of John Chapple Wellons (Sr.) and the mother of John Chapel (sic) Wellons, the grandmother of James H. Wellons and the great grandmother of Ralph Wellons, who was my maternal grandfather.

She was born on January 3, 1816 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

On December 8, 1831, she married John Chapple Wellons in Pulaski County. She was still just 15 years old at the time.

She gave birth to John Chapel Wellons (Jr.) on February 17, 1839. He was one of her 14, or maybe even 15 children. There were 14 at the 1860 census and she may have had one more after that.

She travels to Indiana and then lives many years in Warren County, Iowa with her family.

However, she died on January 8, 1861, at just 45 years old. I wonder if she died giving birth to her 15th child, Charles. Or Charles may have been born to John Chapple Wellons (Sr.)’s second wife.

Sally was buried at the Hartford Cemetery in Hartford, Iowa, near her husband.