Sarah E. (Berry) Harris (1925)

BARTLETT, BERRY, ELDRIDGE, HARRIS, MILLER, SKINNER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 8/17/2006 at 13:44:05

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 9, 1925

Death of MRS. SARAH E. HARRIS

Mrs. Sarah E. Harris died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Eldridge of Scott township, Tuesday afternoon, at the advanced age of 92 years.

She was the widow of L. J. Harris of Webster township and has been making her home with the daughter for the past three years. Two sons, M. E. and Joe Harris and two daughters, Mrs. L. A. Eldridge and Mrs. Walter Skinner are left.

Funeral services will be held at the Fellowship church Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, conducted by Rev. F. C. McCallon of the Winterset Church of Christ.

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Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 15, 1925

MRS. SARAH E. HARRIS

The last page of an earthy life has been turned, another of God's faithful ones has been called home. Sarah E. Berry entered this life March 6, 1833 and passed to the life eternal, April 7, 1925, at the age of 92 years, 1 month and 1 day.

In 1853 she was united in marriage with L. J. Harris in Marion county, Indiana. The following spring they came to Madison county and entered the land which has been her home until two years ago,, when she went to live with her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Eldridge.

There came to enrich this happy pioneer home, ten children: Mary, Charles and Herbert, who died in infancy; Martha, mother of Veleta Miller Bartlett, died Nov 12, 1902; W. C. Harris, died March 11, 1924; those living are Manville E., Joseph L., and Sarah T. Eldridge of Madison county, and Zeresh E. Skinner of Collins, Iowa; 8 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren, besides a host of other relatives and friends.

She was the oldest of the four children of Joel and Louisa Berry, and the last to be called. The happy union formed by the marriage of Lewis J. and Sarah E. Harris was broken by the death of the husband and father, April 1, 1903.

During her lifetime, she has ever been a loyal friend, a helpful neighbor and a wonderfully devoted and loving mother, counting no sacrifice too great as she followed in the footsteps of Christ. For a number of years she has been blind and for the last two years, a constant sufferer, ever patient and praying to be called home.

Funeral services were held April 7th at 2:30 p.m., at the Fellowship church, conducted by Rev. F. C. McCallon, pastor of the Winterset Church of Christ.

Note: Burial was made in the Hamblin Cemetery