On This Day: April 11

In 1856, my paternal great-grandmother Sarah Belle Forshee was born in Hopewell, Washington County, Missouri, the youngest child of James B. Forshee and Sarah A. Parker. She died on February 17, 1923, in Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Source: Texas State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, death certificate 4483 (1923), Sarah Belle Martindale; digital image, Footnote.com, Texas Death Certificates (http://www.footnote.com/documents/19419207/texas_death_certificates/ : accessed 2 May 2011).]

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