Sarah Elizabeth Wade Hart (1843 - 1937)

HART, WADE, BOONE

Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 12/28/2021 at 23:51:15

The Osceola Tribune, Osceola, Iowa
March 23, 1937, Page 1

Last Rites For
Mrs. Hart Held
This Afternoon

Pioneer Mother Had Lived
In Clarke County
Nearly 90 Years; Passed
Away Saturday

Mrs. Sara E. Hart, 94, one of the first settlers of Clarke county, passed away at her home in Osceola Saturday after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services are being held this afternoon from the Church of Christ and burial will be made in Maple Hill cemetery.

For nearly 90 years she was a continuous resident of Clarke county, coming here with her parents, Isaac and Eleanor Wade in 1848, three years before the city of Osceola was laid out. The family located in the Hebron community.

Shortly after the Civil war she married Elijah Hart, who had served in Company F, Sixth Iowa Infantry who had been with his company at Shiloh, Corinth, Resaca, New Hope Church and with Sherman on his march to the sea. They settled on a farm northeast of Osceola where they successfully operated a large stock farm.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Hart were prominent in church activities and were charter members of the Union Chapel Church of Christ.

Sarah Elizabeth Wade, the daughter of Isaac and Eleanor Wade was born February 09, 1843 in Hendricks county, Indiana. When five years of age she moved with her parents to Clarke county, Iowa, locating near Hebron.

February 4, 1866 she was united in marriage to Elijah Hart and moved with him to a farm northeast of Osceola, which was their home for thirty years, then moved to Osceola where Mrs. Hart has since resided. Five children were born to them, Charley, deceased at the age of 2 1/2 years; James Quincy and Flora Belle (twins) deceased in infancy; W. F. Hart, West Hollywood, Calif., and Effie of Osceola.

Her husband passed away July 27, 1920. She united with the Church of Christ in 1870. She and her husband were charter members of the Union Chapel church later uniting with the Osceola Church of Christ in 1892. Here she served a deaconess and her husband as elder for a number of years.

Those left to mourn her passing are the son and daughter, W. F. and Effie, two grandsons, one great grandson, a brother, C. H. Wade of Whittier, Calif., eleven nephews and five nieces.

Mrs. Hart's parents came across the wilderness trail to Kentucky with Daniel Boone. They later moved to Indiana, where Mrs. Hart was born, then came to Iowa in 1848 just two years after it had been admitted to the Union.

Funeral services were held from the Osceola Church of Christ this afternoon (Tuesday) at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. F. C. McCallon and interment was made in Maple Hill cemetery.