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She was daughter of Job Collins, by his first wife, Mary Haines.
Sarah was 12 years younger than her husband and lived 31 years after
his death. Samuel and Sarah had 11 children, of whom 7 were sons and 4 were
daughters, their eldest son, named for his grandfather, Job, dying
in early childhood, during July, 1809. the remaining large family
of 10 children kept unbroken until 1819 when Mary, the oldest, married
and left the household. Within 18 months of her marriage, the second
daughter,
Elizabeth, died in the bloom of womanhood and was buried in the Friend's
Burial Ground at Haddenfield, New Jersey, Aug. 28th, 1820. She was
unmarried and only a few days past her 26th birthday. Four years
later Abigail, the third daughter, and likewise unmarried, also died,
Oct. 14th, 1824, and was interred in the same graveyard. The next
change in the
household of Samuel Thorne was one that affected its welfare more
greatly than any that had preceded it, for on the 25th of Feb., 1825,
Samuel's own death occurred after a long illness. Elizabeth Collins,
a minister among Friends, and a stepmother to Sarah, thus speaks
in her journal of his death;---"The latter end of the second month,
our son-in-law, Samuel
Thorn, departed this life, after a tedious, afflicted confinement
of nearly three months; neither my husband nor myself was able |