Sarah Elizabeth Newhook was born July 18, 1918. Or so her mother said. The Newfoundland government disagrees. Officially, the records say Sarah Elizabeth Newhook was born on July 17, 1918.
Sarah Elizabeth only learned of the discrepancy when she was widowed on July 11, 1968, a week before her 50th birthday. As you can imagine, there wasn’t much of a birthday celebration that year, following the shock of her husband’s sudden death. But the next year, when Sarah Elizabeth’s family brought her presents and birthday greetings on July 18, she declared that they were a day late. Her birthday has passed the day before.
