Mary Sands (maiden name: Shick) was born on April 21, 1839, in Pennsylvania, to Henry Shick and Susanna Brown. Her father was a farmer who owned $5,000 of real estate and $1,000 of personal property by 1860. The family lived in Warwick, Pennsylvania, and she married John G. Sands around 1860. They had at least seven children: Susanna, born around 1861; Rose, born around 1863; Emma, born around 1868; Elizabeth, born around 1871; Anna, born around 1873; Henry, born around 1878; and Lilian, born around 1884. They lived in Warwick, and her husband worked as a teacher. By 1860, they owned $200 of personal property. They moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the 1860s, and her husband worked as a minister there. By 1870, they owned $550 of personal property. They moved to Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, in the 1870s, and by 1910, they were living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Her husband died on December 16, 1916, and she passed away in Harrisburg on September 6, 1917.

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