Sar.

Sar. is a clerk's shortening of the given name Sarah. Busy writers cut common first names down to a few letters, often raising the last letters above the line, and the habit runs through deeds, wills, tax lists and census pages.

Sarah was a very common name, so Sar. on its own rarely identifies one person. Use husband, father, age and place to sort out the Sarahs in a family and a county.