Sarah Frazier Dudley 1848 - 1903

DUDLEY, FRAZIER, MCCRACKIN

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 3/3/2006 at 22:01:59

The Salem Weekly News - January 21, 1904

The funeral of Mrs. William Dudley was held in the First M.E. church, of which she was a member, on December 16, 1903, at 2 o'clock p.m. The services were very impressive and were conducted by Rev. Lynch, pastor of the church, and Rev. Harmon, an old time friend of the family. The esteem in which the good lady was held was manifested by the large number of sympathetic friends present and their beautiful floral gifts, which were laid on her casket sacred to her memory.

Sarah Jane Frazier was born in Salem, Ia., April 13 1848, and died at the old soldiers' home, in Fort Dodge, Kan., December 13, 1903, of paralysis. She was married to William Dudley in Eldora, Ia., on November 25, 1866. She was the fourth daughter of the late Thomas and Ruth McCrackin Frazier, pioneers of Henry and Marshall counties, Ia. After marriage she and her husband moved to Colorado, where they resided ten years; then they came to Kansas and have spent the remainder of her life in and near Wichita, where she was favorably and well known. She left a husband and three foster children, one brother and five married sisters to mourn her loss. She took a great interest in anything that helped to cheer and brighten the pathway of the old soldier. Her father, a brother, four cousins and her husband were all membeers of Company D, 14th Iowa, and marched side by side during the Civil war. Her remains were interred in the Maple Grove cemetery near Wichita.