Tilly Laskey, curator at Maine Historical Society, has sent along a link to the sales offering of a wonderful family record sampler wrought in 1846 by Sarah Ann Cheeney (1835-1895), then in Eastport, Maine.
https://www.antiquesamplers.com/samplers/cheeney,-sarah-a.htm
Sarah was born in Pembroke, Maine, on April 27, 1835 to George Cheeney and his wife Mary A., natives of Derry, New Hampshire, and Salem, Massachusetts, respectively. George and Mary had married in Dennysville, Maine, on July 28, 1834.
Children listed on the sampler:
- Sarah Ann Cheeney, born in Pembroke, Maine, on April 27, 1835 [Sarah's gravestone gives her year of birth as 1836 but that does not reconcile with the birth of her next younger sibling]
- Emma Sophia Cheeney, born in Pembroke, Maine, on November 14, 1836
- George Alvin Cheeney, born in Robbinston, Maine, on January 12, 1839
- James William Cheeney, born in Eastport, Maine, on April 12, 1843
- Lemuel G. Cheeney, born in Eastport, Maine, on May 12, 1849
Sarah Ann Cheeney married George Kilborn, Jr., in 1858 in Boston, Massachusetts. She and George are buried in the Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts.
If you have information on the Cheeney family, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.
