Sarah Brink ^{1 2 3}

   Another name for Sarah was Sarah Schoonover.^{4 5}

  General Notes:

From Knapp's History of Ashland County:
"While the white inhabitants were yet few in number, the neighborhood was thrown into a high state of excitement by the following occurrence: Sarah, aged about eighteen, daughter of Thomas BRINK, which family then resided in the southern part of the township, undertook, one winter evening, an errand to the house of Nathaniel BAILEY, situated about a mile distant; and on her return home she became lost and wandered about three days and nights in the woods. On the morning following her loss the whole neighborhood was out in search of her; but as the weather was intensely cold, after the second day's exploration all hope of finding her alive was abandoned -- it was supposed that she must have perished and that her body had been devoured by the wolves. This theory, however, proved erroneous; for the morning of the fourth day found her yet alive, though her limbs were frozen and she was nearly famished; but her senses were not so far gone by the agony she had suffered and was still suffering, as to disable her from detecting the voice of a dog, and, following the sound, it led her to an Indian camp near the western shore of the lower Vermillion Lake. The Indians took her into their cabin; where every attention and kindness were shown her, and to their skill and care she was indebted under Providence and salvation from the most fearful of deaths and for restoration to her friends. She remained crippled for life in consequence of the loss by freezing of nearly all the toes from both feet.
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Not found in the 1880 census.
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Sarah married George Fast, son of Christian Fast and Elizabeth Blosser, on an unknown date. (George Fast was born on 13 March 1824 in Pennsylvania ^{3 6 7} and died on an unknown date.)