Author: Wilmore, Sarah
Biography:
WILMORE, Sarah, formerly EVES (1764-1848: ancestry.co.uk)
She was the eldest of four daughters of Francis Eves (1743-1803), attorney, and his wife Anna Maria Jefferson (1743-1801), who had married at Eaton Bishop, Herefordshire, on 7 Aug. 1761. She was baptised at Hay, Herefordshire, on 12 June 1764. She married John Wilmore MD, a doctor practising in Elm-Hill, near Worcester, on 4 Feb. 1815 at St. Helen’s, Worcester. He had been widowed in 1807 and left with eight children. He subscribed to her volume The Progress and Comforts of Religion (1820) as did four of his daughters and two of his sons. At his death in 1827, he exhorted his widow and unmarried daughters to live together at Elm-Hill “harmoniously and affectionately.” She appears, however, to have preferred to live with her niece Sarah (the daughter of her sister Harriet) and her husband the Rev. Samuel Johnson, Rector of Hinton Blewett, Somerset. She died there on 13 Apr. 1848. She had no children of her own but left bequests for her nieces and surviving sisters. She made no mention of or provision for the children of her husband. (ancestry.co.uk 30 Oct. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 30 Oct. 2020; Hereford Journal 15 Feb. 1815; Worcester Journal 24 May 1827; Bath Chronicle 27 Apr. 1848) AA