Ellen MITCHELL

• General Notes
  • Married Mr Oscar Magnusson.
    
    Four children were born to Bob and Sarah while they lived on "Landwreath" - Allotments 16, 19, 20a, Section F, in the Parish of Barwo. Bob tragically died from Pneumonia at the age of 35 on the 23rd August 1919.
    
    Shortly afterwards, Sarah sold the farm and moved to "Willowa" the property she and Bob had purchsed in Kotupna. Allotment 37 had once been owned by Sarah's father, and it was here that she reared her family, George (m Constance Officer), Ellen (Mrs Oscar Magnusson) Robert Quick (m Betty Armstrong) and John (m Kath Hanson).
    
    In the early 1950's she sold the property to her youngest son John. Sarah lived in Wyuna and Moama before moving to reside with her daughter Ellen, in Bendigo, where she died on 22nd June, 1964. Sarah was buried beside her husband in the Nathalia Cemetary.
    
    Source - Pioneers of Nathalia and district - Compiled by Nathalia Genealogical Group, 1 January, 2000