Sarah Ellen DeFoy(1845-1930)
MCPEAK, ALDERMAN, DEFOY, POOL, HAUCK, GREINER, REED
Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/2/2008 at 22:52:46
Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
July 3, 1930Sarah 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 Nov. 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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