Sarah Jane DeVault

DEVAULT, SMITH

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/10/2006 at 08:12:19

Winterset Madisonian - Wed., February 2, 1944

Sarah Jane DeVault, one of the oldest residents of Penn township, died Jan. 23 at her home there. She was 86 years of age, and had been in failing health for several years.

Miss DeVault was the daughter of Jonathan and Malinda DeVault, and was born in Johnson county on Nov. 12, 1857. She attended the rural schools of Johnson county and Mt. Vernon college at Oxford. In 1877, when she was 20 years old, she came with her parents to Madison county, where she spent the remainder of her life.

She is survived by one brother, J. H. DeVault of Dexter, and one sister, Mrs. Mae Smith of Spirit Lake.

(Burial was made in the Penn Center cemetery)