Title	Sarah Pearson wedding gown and poke bonnet
Subject	Weddings Wedding costume Clothing and dress Hats Women--Ohio
Time Period	1820s
Place	Miami County (Ohio)
Description	This is a front view of the wedding dress and poke bonnet worn by Sarah Pearson in 1823 in Miami County, Ohio. Made of muslin and linen, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring that ties in the back and a reinforced yoke lined with linen, with long and full sleeves. Sarah married her second cousin, Moses Pearson, and they had eight children, Rhoda, Mahalah, Timothy, Anna, Joshua, Abram, Nathan and Serepta. Sarah Pearson was a Quaker and member of the Mill Creek Friends Meeting House in Miami County. In 1837, Moses and Sarah were sent by the Indiana Yearly Missionaries to the Shawnee Indians who had recently been removed from Ohio to the present-day Kansas City, Missouri. Sarah died on February 7, 1844, and was buried in Union Joint Cemetery in Ludlow Falls, Ohio.
Creator	Anne Bissonnette (Photographer)
Date of Original	May 28, 1823
Collection	Ohio History Connection Museum Collections
Source	Museum; H 21998
Format	picture objects
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL04999.tif
Image Height	1920
Image Width	1920
File Size	14755480 Bytes
Date created	2011-08-04

Sarah Pearson wedding gown and poke bonnet

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