Sarah Jane Speed

(1844-1844)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Sarah Jane Speed was born on May 27, 1844, in Granville County, NC. She died on June 8, 1844, and was buried in Speed-Taylor-Young-Renuart Cemetery in Oxford, NC. Sarah Jane Speed died June 8,1844 and was buried at the Speed-Taylor-Young-Renuart Cemetery at the Thomas Henry Speed I home located on the west side of Cannady Mill Road, 10 miles south of Oxford on the Tar River [1].

Places of Residence

• Granville County, NC, from May 27, 1844.

Relatives

• Parents: Edward Speed (1808-1859) and Frances Young (1809-1851).
• Maternal grandparent: Ann Taylor Young.
• Siblings:
  • two brothers, Joseph H. Speed (b. 1834) and Edward Speed, [Jr.] (b. 1842).
  • four sisters, Mary Speed (b. 1840), Nannie Taylor Speed (1836-1909) , Virginia F. Speed (b. 1832) and Susan Speed.
• Others: Elizabeth H. Mangum (niece, 1861-1957), Frances Wade Mangum (niece, b. 1863), Lillian Augusta Mangum (niece, 1859-1925), Mary Grace Mangum (niece, 1869-1926), Nannie Speed Mangum (niece, 1866-1957) and Addison Goodloe Mangum, [Jr.] (nephew, 1868-1930).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).