Carpenter, Sarah Mercer 1870-1943

CARPENTER, MERCER

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 5/6/2011 at 21:24:22

Carpenter, Sarah Mercer –
Short funeral services were to be conducted at the Barber Mortuary at 2:00 p.m. Thursday for Mrs. Sarah Carpenter, who died Sunday at her home in Rocky Ford. Colo.

The aunt of Mrs. M. J. Sluss and of J. G. Leckliter, Mrs. Carpenter was 72 years of age.

Rites were to held at Rocky Ford, then the body was to be brought here. Interment will be made in the Corning cemetery.
Lenox Times Table, Lenox, Iowa, Thursday, February 4, 1943

Carpenter, Sarah Mercer –
Mrs. Sarah Mercer Carpenter, second daughter of John and Mary Ann Mercer, and aunt of Mrs. Helen Sluss and J. G. Leckliter of Lenox, died at Rocky Ford, Colorado, Sunday 31 [1943].

She was born in Lucas county, Iowa, April 19, 1870, where she lived until the age of 15 when she moved with her father and mother to Corning, Ia. She taught school in the vicinity of Prescott and Stringtown for several years, moving at the age of 25 to Cripple Creek, Colo. where she again taught school.

While teaching at Cripple Creek, she was married to Horace R. Carpenter, engineer for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. They lived in Denver for two years, moving to St. Louis where they resided until 1923 when Mr. Carpenter died. During these years in St. Louis, she became a well known genealogist, traveling extensively throughout the United States. She leaves a library of research which is valued at $4,000. She was an esteemed member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was instrumental in tracing lineages of members of the Rocky Ford chapter, as well as other chapters in the United States. She was also a member of the Daughters of the War of 1812.

In 1929 she moved back to Colorado, building a home in the vicinity of Rocky Ford, where she resided until her death.

She is survived by one brother, David N. Mercer of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and four sisters, Mrs. E. P. Brightwell of Omaha, Neb., Mrs. C. A. Baker of Grand Junction, Colo., Mrs. J. L. McCarthy of Culver City, Calif. and Mrs. Fred C. Strandrews of Alhambra, Calif.; three nephews, five nieces and a host of friends.

During her younger years, she was a member of the Methodist church, uniting with the Episcopalian church after her marriage to Mr. Carpenter.

Short services were conducted at the Barber Mortuary in Lenox, Ia. at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Rites were also held at Rocky Ford on Tuesday. Interment was in the Corning, Ia. Walnut Grove cemetery.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, Thursday, February 11, 1943