DEFOY, Sarah Ellen (McPeak)(Alderman) 1845-1930

DEFOY, MCPEAK, ALDERMAN, POOL, REED, GREINER, HAUCK

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/2/2008 at 23:01:39

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Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
July 3, 1930

Sarah Ellen McPeak Alderman DeFoy

DEATHS

Mrs. Oliver DeFoy, 84, died at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of a grandson, Earl L. Alderman, 324 Seventh street west. Death was attributed to the complications incident upon advanced age. She had been bedfast for the past six months. She had made her home with her grandson during the preceding four years, coming here from Chicago.

Sarah E. McPeak, daughter of James and Rebecca McPeak, was born November 29, 1845, in Illinois and moved with her parents the following March to Iowa. She was united in marriage in 1861 to William W. Alderman, who died three years later after serving two years in the Civil War as a volunteer with the Thirty-first Iowa Infantry.

She was again united in marriage with Oliver DeFoy in 1866. Her second husband preceded her in death on January 17, 1911, at Waterloo, Iowa.

When she was 14 years old Mrs. DeFoy joined the Christian church and later joined the Methodist Episcopal church in Maquoketa, Ia.

Surviving are one son, O. L. DeFoy, Chicago; two daughters, Mrs. Ellen D. Reed, Albuquerque, N. M., and Mrs. Maybel A. Greiner, York, Pa.

A son, A. L. Alderman, and two daughters, Ada A. Pool and Mrs. Ethel L. Hauck, preceded her mother in death.

The body was taken to O‘Keefe & Towne mortuary.

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Maquoketa Excelsior
July 8, 1930

Body of Former Resident Brought Here for Burial

Brief committal services were held Saturday afternoon at Mount Hope cemetery for Mrs. Sarah DeFoy, 84, whose body was brought here from Waterloo.

Mrs. DeFoy was a former resident of Maquoketa and while here her home was on South Second street. Following the death of her husband in 1911 she made her home with her grandson, Earl Alderman in Waterloo where her death occurred. She had been an invalid for more than a year, her illness dating from a stroke.

Her three children: Ella of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mabel and Roy of Chicago, accompanied the body here for burial.

Rev. Hunt of the Methodist church read the committal service.