DOCUMENTATION SOURCE:
Personally surveyed Taylors Creek Cemetery on 6/26/2001 and took photo of tombstone
Image of Last Will and Testament of Sarah Louisa (Johnson) Bird (original document located in Liberty County Courthouse, Probate Court Records, Liberty County, Georgia) [page 2] [page 3] [page 4]
Image of Inventory and Appraisment of Sarah Louisa Bird (original document located in Liberty County Courthouse, Probate Court Records, Liberty County, Georgia) [page 2] [page 3]
Transcription of Will of Sarah Louisa (Johnson) Bird (transcribed by Sherry Boresen Sullivan), Book ), Page 148-149, 4/7/1901, Liberty County Court Records
BOOKS

Taylors Creek, Story of the Community and Her People Through 200 Years", Bird and Paul Yarbrough, Editors, A Project of Taylors Creek Cemetery Association, Press of The Atkinson County Citizen, Pearson, Georgia, 1963. A copy of this book can be found at the Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia. This book has an updated and revised version printed in 1985.

(page 29)) (page 149) (page 150)
WEBSITES

Taylors Creek Cemetery Plot Map & Website

Tombstone reads: "Sarah L., Wife of I.L. Bird, Oct. 1, 1849, Jan. 25, 1910, God has transplanted her in her celestial home though cast down shes not forsake Though afflicted not alone Thou diddst give and thou hast taken Blessed Lord thy will be done"

Her will lists the following as her heirs, as she had no issue:

CC Daniel, next of kin
Heirs: Marth Hodges, Mrs. Birdie L. Darsey, PP Bird, Susie Bradley - each received $267.28. Also mentioned were Mrs. Elizabeth Duggar, Mrs. Eliza Edwards, Mrs. Alice Southwell and Miss Francis Johnson and William Johnson, presumably her sisters and brothers.

• Married: 1868