Individual Details
Sophia WIDENHOUSE
(22 Apr 1802 - 1 Sep 1885)
Events
| Birth | 22 Apr 1802 | Cabarrus County, NC | |||
| Marriage | 9 Oct 1821 | Cabarrus County, NC - Daniel FURR |  |  | |
| Death | 1 Sep 1885 | Cabarrus County, NC | | | |
| Burial | Saint Martin Lutheran Church Cemetery, Concord, Cabarrus County, NC | | |
Families
| Spouse | Daniel FURR (1795 - 1876) |
| Child | Tobias A. FURR (1824 - 1864) |
| Child | Paul Wilson FURR (1826 - ) |
| Child | Martin FURR (1827 - 1865) |
| Child | Sally Mary A. FURR (1829 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Catherine FURR (1831 - 1883) |
| Child | Daniel Caleb "Dan" FURR (1833 - 1901) |
| Child | Israel Lewis FURR (1836 - 1882) |
| Child | Moses Monroe FURR (1838 - 1919) |
| Child | James Chesley FURR (1839 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth FURR (1841 - ) |
| Child | Adam McDonald FURR (1841 - 1864) |
| Child | Martha Jane FURR (1851 - ) |
| Father | Martin WIDENHOUSE (1764 - 1842) |
| Mother | Saly KUNTZ (1766 - 1850) |
Notes
Marriage
Groom: Daniel Furr Bride: Sophia Widenhouse Bond Date: 09 Oct 1821 Bond #: 000008069 Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868, ImageNum: 008604 County: Cabarrus Record #: 01 075 Bondsman: William Tallins Witness: John TravisDeath
At the residence of her son, Moses Furr, in No. 9, Mrs. Sophia Furr, wife of the late Daniel Furr, aged 83 years, four months and ten days. Mrs. Furr was an earnest Christian, and was a consistent member of the Methodist Church South from her early womanhood. —Concord RegisterWeekly Raleigh Register, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 9, 1885
Burial
On Sophia's tombstone is the inscription:"Dear Mother thou hast left us
Here thy loss we deeply feel
But 'tis God that hast bereft us
He can all our sorrows heal."
Endnotes
1. Dodd, Jordan. North Carolina Marriages to 1825. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997. Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in North Carolina. .
2. North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977..
3. Weekly Raleigh Register, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 9, 1885.
4. findagrave.com.