Ashby
Sarah Ellen “Sadie Ella”
1884 – 1918
Sarah Ellen “Sadie Ella” Ashby was born in 1884 in Iowa, the first child of Grant and Lizzie Ashby,
Marriage
Sadie Ella married James William “Will” Thomas in 1902. When her parents moved west, Sadie Ella stayed in Southeast Kansas with her husband. She gave birth to nine children; however, three of the children died at the time of birth or shortly afterward. Both Sadie Ella and her last child died within days of her giving birth.