Annie Sargent 1854-1919

SARGENT, PARSON, BARKER, JEFFERS, PURINTON, TAYLOR

Posted By: Terry Sargent (email)
Date: 12/21/2010 at 22:34:02

SPENCER MOTHER DIED TUESDAY
MRS. IRA SARGENT DIED AT HOME IN SPENCER TUESDAY EVENING FOLLOWING LINGERING ILLNESS

Mrs. Annie Parsons Sargent, wife of Ira Sargent, and a resident of Spencer since 1898, passed away last evening after a lingering illness. Death was due to paralysis and other complications.

Annie Parson was born at Fairfield, Iowa, October 9, 1854, where she grew to young womanhood and at the age of seventeen she went to Marshall County and while living there she made the acquaintance of Ira Sargent and was married to him February 3, 1873. After their marriage they continued to live in Marshall County for something over a year when they went to Strawberry Point, Clayton County, Iowa, where Mr. Sargent was raised. There were eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Sargent, eight boys and three girls. Seven of these children are living; Mrs. Wm. Barker of Minneapolis; Ernest of Kimball, South Dakota; W. R. Jeffers of Union; Irvan of Nashville, Tennessee; Lawrence of Estherville; Clarence in the U.S. Navy at Norfolk, Virginia; Mrs. W. M. Purinton of Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent moved to Spencer in 1898 and have been residents since that time until her death which occurred Tuesday evening, May 20, 1919.

Mrs. Sargent was in poor health for a long time before her death. She suffered from two or three strokes of paralysis. She was a hard-working woman, one who was honored and respected by all who knew her for her goodness of heart and dear neighborly qualities. She was more than that; she was a Christian woman and a member of the M.E. Church of Spencer, also of the Royal Neighbors and the Modern Brotherhood. The funeral will held from the Methodist Church Saturday afternoon at three o’clock, conducted by Rev. Taylor.

Interment in Riverside cemetery

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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, also for the beautiful floral offerings and the lodges, especially the Royal Neighbors for their beautiful services in honor of our dear one and Brother Taylor for his kind words of assurance and sympathy.
Ira H. Sargent and Family

Sources:
~Obituary was published on pg. 7 of the Spencer Reporter, Spencer Iowa on Wednesday, May 21, 1919
~The “card of thanks” from the family was published on pg. 5 of the Spencer Reporter, Spencer Iowa on Wednesday, May 28, 1919