SCHOFIELD, Sara

SCHOFIELD

Posted By: Nancy (email)
Date: 10/20/2003 at 15:51:51

November 29, 1951, The Morning Sun News-Herald, page 1 with photo. I am not related and have no further information.

MORNING SUN’S OLDEST RESIDENT DIES.

Funeral services were held Monday for Sara Jane Schofield, 96, Morning Sun’s oldest resident and one of the few Civil War veterans’ widows in the state. Last rites, in charge of Dr. Will M. Hughes and Rev. J. E. McElroy, were held at the Pierce funeral home and burial was in Elmwood cemetery.

Mrs. Schofield, who celebrated her 96th birthday on August 13, has been in good health until recently. Her death on Friday, November 23, resulted from a decline that started about two months ago.

Mrs. Schofield was born in South Royalston, Massachusetts on August 13, 1855. In 1884 she with her sister moved to Nebraska where she was a dressmaker until 1885 when she married Isaac Schofield. Mr. and Mrs. Schofield settled on a Nebraska claim where they lived until 1892. In that year they moved to the Wapello community and lived for a time in the Harrison Hill neighborhood. In 1905 they moved to Morning Sun and Mr. Schofield died here in 1917.

Mrs. Schofield is survived by one son, Joseph Schofield, Morning Sun; and four grandchildren; George Schofield, Galesburg, Illinois; Mrs. D. M. Smith, Burlington; Mrs. Lillian Wills, South Gate, California, and Mrs. Lucille Young, Long Beach, California.

Also surviving are five great grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.