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Note: She was aged 77 yrs., 9 mos. and 5 days at her death. Her middle initial was "B." which might have stood for Burr, her mother's maiden name. However, several places, the middle name is given as Brown. In compiled Genealogies, her name is sometimes written Sarah (Burr) Marvin, which could mislead the reader to think that it was her maiden name--which it was not, her maiden name being Sherwood. The sketch of her son, Dr. Charles Wakeman Marvin (Tucker, 1913, see below) gives it correctly as "Sarah B. (Sherwood) Marvin."
Sarah patented land in Van Wert Co., OH in 1845:
Sarah B. Marvin, of Richland Co., OH was issued patent for 310 acres, situated as such: the E 1/2 of Sec. 29, T 1 S, R 1 E, in the Dist. of lands subject to sale at Lima, Ohio. Patent issued 1 Jan. 1845. Signed by James R. Polk, proxy by J. Knox Walker, Sec. (Cert. no. 11.506)
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Concerning Sarah B. Marvin's mother: Since notes for Mrs. Deborah Moyer do not appear in a report of Marvin descendants, I will mention that her maiden name was Burr, and family tradition relates that she was a "cousin" or "full cousin" to Vice President Aaron Burr who challenged and shot Alexander Hamilton to death in a duel in 1805, and was later disgraced (and even indicted for treason by a Grand Jury in Chillicothe, Ohio). Deborah (nee Burr) was, in fact, a third-cousin-once-removed to Aaron Burr (1756-1836).
Deborah Burr's first husband, Daniel Sherwood, was a Captain in the West Indian Service. He died sometime between 1802 and 1810. After his death, she married George Moyer.
A little secondary research places Debbie as a daughter of Capt. George Burr (1736-1813) and Mabel Wakeman of Fairfield Co., CT. While the secondary source has a different birth month, her husband was noted as George Moyer (being Debbie's married name when she went to Ohio) and states that Deborah had been married previously, her first married name being Sherwood. While this would be an extremely unlikely coincidence, I should note that if this lineage is not correct, Deborah Burr is certainly descended from Jehu Burr (abt. 1600-1650) of Roxbury, Mass. and Fairfield Co., Conn. This Burr family intermarried several times with the Fitch, Sherwood and Wakeman families and many members of the family were active in public affairs--Wakeman and Sherwood being names handed down in the Marvin family. If the lineage is correct--and I believe it is--Deborah is a great-great-great-granddaughter of the same Jehu Burr (abt.1600-1650) by his third wife, Martha Heath.
Debbie is often claimed to have been a "full cousin" of Vice President Aaron Burr (1756-1836) . Aaron was a great-great-grandson of Jehu Burr (abt.1600-1650) by his second wife, Elizabeth Cable. Thus, Aaron Burr was actually a half-third-cousin to Deborah's father, Capt. George Burr (1736-1813).
Name: Deborah Burr
Birth: May 1783*
Death: UNKNOWN
Father: George (Capt.) Burr b: 26 MAY 1736 in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield Co., CT
Mother: Mabel Wakeman b: 24 MAY 1742 in Greenfield, Fairfield Co., CT
Marriage: George Moyer
Married: 30 JAN 1810 in Fairfield Co., CT
She was Mrs. Deborah Sherwood at the time of her second marriage in 1810.
*The May 1783 date may in fact refer to a baptism, which would support the relationships as stated here, her birth date being 5 January 1783.
(I will also note, that while the compiler is not related, as far as he knows, to Deborah Burr Sherwood Marvin--excepting by the marriage of her daughter to his "uncle" Stephen Marvin--Aaron Burr and Nick Sheedy are also distantly related, both descending from Philip Pinkney (d. 28 Feb. 1686/87) of Eastchester, Westchester Co., New York. --NMS)
The following is paraphrased from a history book on Shelby, Ohio, I found at the Marvin Memorial Library (failed to note title and author), pp. 19-20:
It was decided that a school should be put up in Sharon Twp. in 1820. The following year, the first schoolhouse in Shelby was built in the area later called "Texas." The school was of log construction about 18 by 20 feet with greased paper covering the cut windows so as to admit light and a large fireplace for heating the room in winter. Students sat on rough benches of hewed logs, and desks were hewed slabs set against the wall. Mrs. Moyer (affectionately called "Aunt Debbie") was hired as the first school teacher. She received a salary of 9 shillings per month which did not include board. The contract stipulated that she was to teach writing, spelling, reading and arithmetic, to the "single rule of three," or what was better known as simple proportion.
Mrs. Moyer also taught school several years at Milan, Ohio, according to an account by her great-grandson, Robert F. Mehrling.
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