Sarah E. (Jones) Fleming (1930)

FLEMING, JONES, STRABLE, WILDER

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 2/1/2007 at 17:43:40

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 30, 1930

Mrs. Sarah E. Fleming

Sarah E. Jones was born in Illinois, January 6, 1858, and died April 25, 1930, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Guy Strable, near Martensdale, aged 72 years, 3 months and 19 days. She came to Iowa, with her parents, when she was five years old. They settled on a farm near Indianola. Five years later they moved to New Virginia, where she grew to womanhood.

In 1877, she was united in marriage to J. L. Fleming. To this union two daughters were born, Mae and Opal. After their marriage they lived in and near New Virginia for several years. Then they moved to Wick, where they lived two years, then came to St. Charles. Mr. Fleming died July 3, 1916.

Mrs. Fleming was a member of the Methodist church, having united with the church when she was fifteen years old. She was a member of the Women’s Relief Corps for thirty-five years. Mrs. Savannah McAndrews, Mrs. Maggie Horton, Mrs. Belle Faust, Mrs. Kittie Bean, Mrs. Mollie Roberts, and Mrs. J. K. Nickle, member of the Relief Corps (the first five being charter members), were honorary pall bearers. The active pall bearers were: J. D. Peffley, J. G. Carter, L. W. Lynch, Henry Imes, J. P. Small and J. K. Nickle. She leaves her two daughters, Mrs. Edward Wilder, of Phoenix, Arizona, and Mrs. Guy Strable, of Martensdale, and her grandchildren, Myron Edward, Guy Manson, Garnetta Mae, George Delmare and Harrison Hoover.

Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in St. Charles, Sunday, April 27th, at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by her pastor, the Rev. F. G. Barnes. Interment was made in the St. Charles cemetery, by the side of her husband.