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- Hannah Sands
wife of
Michael Sands
and daughter of
Daniel & Margaretha
Gensemer
Born
24 August 1817
Died
2 September 1850
Aged
33 years and 9 days
∼
GREAT FLOOD OF 1850
One boat was manned by Mr. William Seitzinger and William Moyer, who contended bravely with the destructive element, and succeeded in bringing safely to land many persons, men, women and children, who would otherwise have found a watery grave. In one of their perilous trips, they passed the house of Mr. Michael Sands, in Front street, between Franklin and Chestnut, containing Mr. Sands, his wife and four children. The house was beginning to totter, as they passed it, but their boat was already full, and they could take but an infant child on board with them. This was scarcely done, before the house fell with a great crash, precipitating the three remaining children into the water, and in it supposed they immediately drowned. Mr. Sands was carried some distance down the stream, where he grasped a tree, and held fast until a boat came to his rescue. His wife floated away on a bed, was carried over the big dam, and there, sad to relate, she was drowned, in spite of repeated efforts made to save her. Her dead body was found on Tuesday evening, deeply imbedded in mud and rubbish in Mr. Goodhart's corn field, 6 miles below town. The bodies of the three children had not been recovered at the time we wrote.
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The August 1850 census of Reading lists Michael and Hannah with children Margaret 9, Catharine 5, Emma 2 and Harriet 1. The infant mentioned would be Harriet but Catharine also survived although her death certificate gives Michael's second wife Sybilla as mother. However, her obituary gives Sybilla's children as half brothers(Daniel, Ephraim and Charles)
Name: Hannah Sands
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 33
Birth Year: abt 1817
Home in 1850: Reading South West Ward, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
Line Number: 22
Dwelling Number: 40
Family Number: 46
Household Members Age
Michael Sands31
Hannah Sands 33
Margaret Sands9
Catharine Sands 5
Emma Sands 2
Harriet Sands 1
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1817 - 1850 (33 years)
