Sarah GATES

Father: Fellows GATES
Mother: Mary WILLIAMS

Family 1: James LOCKHART

(1) Source: Michigan, U.S., County Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

  1. Elias LOCKHART
  2. Lewis LOCKHART

Family 2: Amasa H. THORPE

(1) Source: Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records via Ancestry.com. 
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Notes

Updated January 20, 2026. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Michigan, U.S., County Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Sarah GATES
- Gender: Female
- Age: 18
- Birth Date: abt 1831
- Marriage Date: 1849
- Marriage Place: Wayne, Michigan, USA
- Spouse: James LOCKHART
- Film Number: 001377620

(2) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Barry Co., Castleton: Page 230, August 18, 1860.

Sarah [GATES] LOCKHART is married to James LOCKHART (age 36, b. Canada, a farmer with $800 Real Estate and $100 Personal Estate), head of household. Sarah is 26 years old and born in New York. Children in the household are Elias (age 11) and Lewis (age 10), both born in Canada.

(3) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Barry Co., Castleton (Nashville Post Office): Page 12; August 29, 1870.

Sarah [GATES] LOCKHART is married to James LOCKHART (age 47, a farmer with $9,000 Real Estate and $1,000 Personal Estate), head of household. Sarah is 40 years old and keeping house. Children in the household are Elias (age 19) and Lewis (age 17). All members of the family were born in Canada West.

(4) Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records and Michigan, Death Records via Ancestry.com

The marriage of Sarah GATES and James LOCKHART must have been disolved in the first half of the 1870's because James remarried Mary WEAVER on 13 Jan 1876. He passed away 29 Dec 1897 in Kalamazoo Co., Michigan, with no reference to Sarah.

(5) Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

- Record No.: 215
- Date of Marriage: July 21, 1886
- Place of Marriage: Vermontville, Eaton Co., Mich.
- Bride: Sarah GATES LOCKHART; maiden name Sarah GATES
- Residence: Castleton, Mich.
- Age: 35 [sic.]
- Birthplace: Canada O.
- Groom: Amasa H. THORP
- Residence: Carmel, Mich.
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: Ohio
- Occupation: Carpenter & Joiner
- Officiant: Ralph E. STEVENS; Justice of the Peace
- Witnesses: Homer G. BARBER and Edgar RAWSON, both of Vermontville

(6) Find a Grave

- Name: Sarah THORP LOCKHART
- Birth: 1830
- Death: 1891 (aged 60–61)
- Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery; Vermontville Township, Eaton County, Michigan, USA
- Memorial ID: 150446296

(7) J. Smith family records, February 10, 2002.

- This source includes a rather comprehensive 27-page review of Fellows Gates and his descendants
- First husband was LOCKHART; second husband was Amasa THORP