Sarah Royse

1792 - Abt 1866

• Born	1792	Bardstown, Nelson Co, Kentucky, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	Abt 1866	Bedford, Lawrence Co, Indiana, USA
  Person ID	I979	Clarkson
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Frederick Royse,   b. 1750-1760,   d. 1826, Washington Co, Indiana, USA
  Mother	Sarah DeWitt,   b. Abt 1760,   d. 1827, Washington Co, Indiana, USA
  Married	Abt 1778
  Family ID	F368	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Levi Augustus Nugent,   b. 20 Oct 1792,   d. 3 Sep 1865, Bedford, Lawrence Co, Indiana, USA
  Married	13 Jan 1811	Clark Co, Indiana, USA
  Family ID	F369	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Sarah Royse (Royce) was born in November 1791 in Bardstown, Nelson county Kentucky, daughter of Frederick Royse and Sarah Dewitt. She married Levi Augustus Nugent 13 January 1811 in Clark county Indiana. He is the son of Willoughby Nugent and Rebecca Catherine Ross. Like the Royse family, the Nugents were in Nelson county Kentucky, before moving to Clark county Indiana. Levi Augustus Nugent is named in the 1812 Will of his father Willoughby Nugent, in Clark county Indiana. According to Levi Nugent's obituary, following the War of 1812, "he settled on White River, in this county (Lawrence county Indiana), near Old Palestine and resided in this county until the day of his death." Goodspeed's History of Lawrence County Indiana (1884) mentions travels of Nugent neighbors, Isom and Eli Burton, who "made several trips to New Orleans on flat-boats laden with produce, grain, lime and other articles. They usually started from the "Old Nugent Place," on White River, the trip occupying several weeks and being attended with dangers, exposure and much hard work." Levi Nugent and Sarah Royse had a number of children, and probably also raised several nephews. They appear in the 1850 Census of Lawrence county Indiana, where Levi Nugent is shown as a grocer. The McFall children are grandchildren of Sarah Royce Nugent's deceased sister, Rebecca Royse McFall. 1850 Census of Lawrence county Indiana; Marion township Levi A. Nugent 57 (1793) Maryland; grocer Sarah Nugent; 56 (1794) Kentucky Sarah McFall; 6 (1844) Indiana Emily McFall; 4 (1846) Indiana James Webster; 18 (1832) Indiana William Melvin; 22 (1828) Indiana; clerk Levi Nugent died 31 September 1865 and is buried in the Red Cross Cemetery, Marion township, Lawrence county Indiana. Sarah Royse Nugent died a year later on 17 August 1866. It is not clear where she is buried, but family records suggest she might be interred in the Burton Family Cemetery, neighbors to the Nugents in Lawrence county Indiana.