Mrs. I. J. (Sarah Murray) AMSDELL 1858-1895

MURRAY, AMSDELL

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 7/6/2005 at 07:26:19

Our people were shocked on Saturday by the news that the remains of Mrs. Sarah Amsdell (nee Murray) had come in on the Burlington from Strawberry Point, where they had resided for some time. The cause of death was pneumonia and she was sick but a short time. She leaves a husband and two children, besides other relatives to mourn her untimely death. Funeral obsequies and interment at Frankville on Sunday.

[Related article, same paper]: The following additional particulars were handed us by a sister. The only correction in the above is that she was sick nearly four weeks with a complication of diseases, pneumonia setting in at the last: Sarah Murray was born in Heckersville, Schuylkill Co. Pa., May 16th, 1858. She came to Allamakee Co. with her parents in 1878. She was married in Postville, April 24th, 1885, to Dr. I. J. Amsdell. Three children were the result of the union, the youngest being but twenty-one months old. A father, four sisters and two brothers are left to mourn her loss, besides the children.

Postville Review, 8/3/1895 - contributed by Sharyl Ferrall