BIOGRAPHY: Sarah A. GILMORE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 667-668.

  SARAH  A.  GILMORE, Milroy, Mifflin county, Par., was born in the western part 
of the Kishacoquillas valley, February 25, 1823.  She is a daughter of William 
and Ann (Alexander) McDowell.  Sarah Gilmore's parents had seven children:  
Samuel, married Miss Eichy;  John R., married Margaret Jacobs;  Thomas Jackson, 
died in early manhood;  Perry Wilson, married Katherine Conley;  William 
Elliott, married Louisa Maguire;  Sarah A.;  and Eliza Jane, married to William 
Kennedy, and after his death to William Stroup.  They reside in Adams county, O.
  Sarah A. McDowell was married February 7, 1843, to Thomas Brown.  Mr. Brown 
was born June 30, 1811.  He was a son of James and Nancy (McClure) Brown, who 
had seven children:  Thomas;  Martha (Mrs. Robert McNitt);  Mary (Mrs. Cyrus 
Alexander);  Margaret (Mrs. William McManigal), and Jane (Mrs. William Smith), 
who were twins;  Nancy (Mrs. Christopher Marks);  and James, married first to 
Elizabeth McManigal, and after her heath, to Elizabeth, widow of James 
Alexander, of Centre county, Pa.  They removed to Kansas, where Mr. Brown died.  
Thomas Brown was educated in the district schools of his native township, and 
spent his life on the farm.  Prudent and conservative, Mr. Brown preferred the 
routine of farm labor to the uncertainties of commercial life.  He was actively 
interested in the affairs of the township, and contributed liberally to all 
benevolent enterprises.  Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown's children are:  James, died 
January 4, 1856;  Nancy McClure, died January 9, 1856;  Jane E., who died May 
13, 1860;  and Ann Alexander.  Mr. Thomas Brown died June 4, 1856.  Mrs. Brown 
was married, October 23, 1860, to Jacob Mutthersbaugh.  They removed to 
Lewistown, where they remained until his death, September 26, 1861.  After her 
husband's death, Mrs. Mutthersbaugh returned to the old Brown homestead in 
Armagh township, where she was living at the time of her third marriage.  Her 
daughter, Ann Alexander Brown, was married January 18, 1865, to John M. Bunnell, 
of Crawford county, Pa.  For a number of years they lived on the Brown 
homestead.  Mr. Bunnell then opened a music store in Bellefonte, Pa., where he 
remained for a number of years.  He sold his business there and opened a music 
store in Philipsburg, Pa., where they are living at the present time.  They had 
five children, all of whom died quite young except Sarah M., who was married 
January 1, 1890, to Thomas Mayes, of Lewistown;  they had one child, John Albert 
Mayes.
  Mrs. Mutthersbuagh was married to William Gilmore, April 19, 1866.  Mr. 
Gilmore and his wife lived at Reedsville, Pa., and when Mr. Gilmore died, August 
31, 1876, she again returned to the homestead in Armagh township, where she is 
now living.  Mrs. Gilmore is kind-hearted and intelligent, noted for her 
generous hospitality, and her liberality to the poor of the neighborhood.