Sarah Elizabeth Profitt

Sarah Elizabeth Profitt b 25 Jan 1800 Carter Co TN d 26 Jan 1887  Powell Co KY d/o Sylvester Profitt and Nancy Tompkins. Sarah Elizabeth never married but had 6 children with William Stacy. She gave her six children her surname. Family legend is that Sarah Elizabeth fell in love with William Stacy, but her sister Rebecca married him & Sarah vowed to have his children.

In the 1880 Powell Co, KY census, Sarah is living with John Ashley Profitt; In the 1860 Owsley Co KY census, she is living with Thomas Hampton & her daughter Sylvia. Sarah is listed as widow & spinster. Children of Sarah Elizabeth Profitt and William? Stacy?;

  Sylvia E Profitt b about 1823 Perry Co KY b about 1906  Knowlton, Powell Co KY m. Thomas Hampton b 17 Dec 1822 Letcher Co KY d 23 May 1890 Powell Co KY.

  Stephen Sewell Profitt b 18 Jun 1824 Perry Co KY d 1 Jun 1891 Powell, Wolfe Co KY m. about 1851 Owsley Co KY to Nancy Caroline Cox b 1833 NC d 1920 Estill Co KY.

  Eli Profitt b 1827 Camp Branch, Perry Co KY d 1902 Powell Co KY m. 29 Mar 1855 Owsley Co KY to Mary Agatha Spencer b about 1830.

  Nancy Profitt b about 1828 d about 1885 Wolfe Co KY m. about 1845 Clark Co KY to Armstrong Spencer b about 1825.

  Jeremiah Profitt b 1832 Perry Co KY d 1886 m. 1852 Bath Co KY to Mary Frances Wright. Mary was ¹/₂ Cherokee. (Source). Mary was born in 1837 in Bath KY d Lee Co KY before 1880. Jeremiah Profitt m. 23 Jul 1883 Lee Co KY to 2nd Martha Johnson b about 1860.

  Phoebe Profitt b 1832 Perry Co KY d 26 Oct 1854.