Have you discounted the following
1901 census Cradley Worcs.
Elizabeth Tayler 34 born Lye Worcs
Sarah Adams 28 listed as single and her sister in law
There are other children but significant is Annie aged 14 days.
Would Sarah have gone to help out with other children and birth of Annie.
Last census Cradley Heath Staffordshire
Sarah Adams age 39 brick yard worker born Cradley is a boarder with William Worton and his wife
says she is married though number of years is missing children 3-2-1.
Sarah C Taylor/Adams hasn't got any sister in law named Elizabeth in UK. All of Sarah's brothers and sisters have already moved and are living in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois by 1901.
I did look at Sarah Adams age 39 brick yard worker as that may be a possibility although she only had two sons, Arthur John Adams (15 JUNE 1896 - 22 MAY 1966) and Philip Edwin Adams (17 AUG 1899 - 27 SEP 1977) and no information has come to light over the one child who has died apart from this 1911 census.
Looking at the records: -
I have Sarah's mother Delilah Taylor nee Williams arriving New York on a ship called Erin from Liverpool on 11 Nov 1882, her father Samuel Taylor was already in USA in 1881 just after his British 1881 census and her name is on the bottom the page then on the next page are her children: -
Carrie Taylor (Sarah C) age 10
Samuel - cannot make out age
John age 5
Tamar age 4
Anny (Amy Annie) age 3
Infant (Isabela)
Now I can see what you mean, Maureen, re SarahC/Carrie can't be the same person as the wife of Philip Henry.
I wonder if they, the family, travel backwards and forwards between UK and USA?
I currently have: -
Samuel Taylor (16/12/1847 in Cradley - 21/5/1911 in USA)
married
Delilah Williams (20/12/1851 in Rowley Regis - 28/5/1913 in USA)
Children: -
Sarah Caroline Taylor Birth - registered in Stourbridge during 1870, christened at St Peter's, Cradley on 3 April 1871
Samuel - (1875, Cradley - 4/1/1927 in USA)
John Thomas - (1875, Cradley - 30/8/1939 in USA)
Tamar May - (1877, Cradley - 25/8/1877 in USA)
Amy Annie - (1880, Cradley - 17/4/1941 in USA)
Isabela - 1881 in Cradley - ?
Florence Violet - born in USA (8/10/1885 - 13/11/1939 in USA)
Pearl Ameila - born in USA (7/1/1889 - 10/9/1939 in USA)
Then I have a marriage for
Philip Henry Adams age 23, Stock taker Vale Hawn
Father: John Billingham Adams, Stock taker
marrying on 18 August 1895 at St. John's Church, Halesowen to
Sarah Taylor age 22, The Mount Boro' (the name sound American)
Father: Samuel Taylor, Labourer
After Banns/Both Signed
Wit; Samuel Taylor / Alma Adams (sister of Philip Henry)
My head is thumping from having to recheck, searching for more information - so hard when she seems to have totally disappeared prior to 1901 census, which seems to tie in with the fact she may have left her husband and 2 sons to be with her family in USA and remarrying over there. My Dad remembers his Grandad, having lived with him and great Uncle and has often wondered what became of his Grandmother Sarah Taylor...