Who is Sarah Savattur?

In the 1870 US Census for Salt River Township, Ralls County, MO is the following family:

Adams, Franklin 32 M W Farmhand $100 KY cannot read & write  citizen

Margaret 27 F W keeping house IN

Susan       5 F W                          MO

Newton    3 M W                         MO

Clay         1 M W                         MO

Savattur, Sarah  66 W               NC  cannot write

Clay is my maternal grandfather Cash Clay ADAMS. The others are his family, but who is Sarah SAVATTUR? I have long suspected that she is Margaret’s mother and thus my great-great-grandmother. I have looked in vain in North Carolina for surnames anything like SAVATTUR. If she is Margaret’s mother, why is Margaret’s maiden name (or at least her surname at the time of her marriage) listed as MOOR or MOORE?

It turns out that Sarah is indeed my gg-grandmother but I still don’t know what her maiden name was. I don’t know how I missed them previously, but in the 1860 Census for Ralls County, MO was the following family as indexed by Ancestry.com:

Name: William Savatier

Age in 1860: 67

Birth Year: abt 1793

Birthplace: Pennsylvania

Home in 1860: Salt River, Ralls, Missouri

Gender: Male

Post Office: Lick Creek

Household Members: Name Age

William Savatier         67  PA

Sarah Savatier             53  NC

Margaret A Savatier  18  IN

The writing on this census page is so faint it is possible the record actually says “Margaret A Moore.” Margaret’s recorded age is also open to interpretation.

In the 1850 census William Savatier was living in Hendricks County, IN:

Name:	William Savatier
Age:	56
Estimated birth year:	abt 1794
Birth Place:	Maryland
Gender:	Male
Home in 1850 (City,County,State):	Liberty, Hendricks, Indiana
Family Number:	99
Household Members:	Name Age William Savatier 56 Cynthia Ann Savatier 50 Jesse Savatier 33 Elizabeth Savatier 20

Note that his wife was not Sarah then and that his place of birth was listed as MD and not PA.

Sarah was also living in Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana:

Name:	Sarah Moore
Age:	45
Estimated birth year:	abt 1805
Birth Place:	North Carolina
Gender:	Female
Home in 1850 (City,County,State):	Liberty, Hendricks, Indiana
Family Number:	124
Household Members:	Name Age Samuel White 59 Mary Ann White 50 Charles W White 23 Samuel M White 21 Sarah Moore 45 Margaret Ann Moore 7

Marriage records confirm that Sarah and William married in 1854 in Hendricks County before they relocated to MO. I have not determined whether Sarah was related to the White family.

Also living in the same township in unincorporated Belville during the 1850 Census was the Adams family which included 10 year old Benjamin who was to later marry Margaret Ann in MO.

Name:	Benjamin F Adams
Age:	10
Estimated birth year:	abt 1840
Birth Place:	Kentucky
Gender:	Male
Home in 1850 (City,County,State):	Belville, Hendricks, Indiana
Family Number:	169
Household Members:	Name Age Isaac N Adams 37 Patsey Adams 37 Elizabeth H Adams 13 Benjamin F Adams 10 Mary Jane Adams 8 John Speed Smith Adams 5 Joseph T Adams 4 Susan Ann Adams 3 C M Clay Adams 0

Now I know who Sarah is. Well sort of. There is still much to learn.