IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
159SarahN/ARannieN/A5/7/1879Cerebro-spinal meningitis

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
N/AFALSEN/AAdams Street

lot
plot
N/AR23 G6 in unplotted "lower end"
relations
William Rannie (father, b. c1842) Elizabeth Rannie (mother, b. c1852) Lizzie (sister, b. c1868)

comments
Sarah was born c1867 in Ohio. She is listed in the 1870 U.S. Census with her family. Her father, William, was born in Canada, and her mother, Elizabeth, was born in Scotland. William worked as a laborer with $500 real estate value. Sarah's sister, Lizzie, was also born in Ohio. Sarah died on 7 May 1879 at the age of 12. Her obituary was printed in the Berea Advertiser on 15 May 1879: "Sarah Rannie, a twelve-year old daughter of Wm. Rannie, died Friday morning, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. She was buried Saturday afternoon from the Stone church, Rev. J. W. Baxton officiating." The Stone Church was the Methodist Episcopal church that stood at the edge of the Big Quarry, north-west of the current Coe Lake. Sarah's tombstone was located in 2007 in the unplotted area at the lower end of the cemetery. The white marble stone is now grayed and worn, but still mostly legible, reading "SARAH daughter of ELIZABETH RANNIE DIED May 8, 1879 Safe with [dear?…] Jesus". It was recorded in the 1904 survey as "Sarah Rannie, dau. Of Elizabeth, d. May 8, 1879." In the 1934 survey, her name was read "Raunie." Sarah Rannie's base was leveled, D-2 was used to clean the marker, and in the future more may need to be done to restore the marker.

sources
1870 U.S. Federal Census Series M593 Roll 1193 Page 431, HeritageQuestOnline.com Sarah Rannie obituary, Berea Advertiser, 15 May 1879, p.3, c.3 E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904; Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Sarah Rannie tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2007. Recrds of Grave Marker Repairs, Sarah Rannie, 2009.