Sarah Elizabeth (Blair) Simpson (1932)

BLAIR, DANIEL, MILLER, MOORE, SCOTT, SIMPSON

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 2/7/2007 at 14:33:20

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
December 1932

SARAH E. SIMPSON

Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander and Amanda Blair was born in Medcalf Co., Kentucky, March 7, 1858 and in 1863 came with her parents to Madison Co., Iowa, where they settled on a farm near the present town of Patterson and in this home she grew to womanhood.

Her Grandfather Blair, a United Brethren Minister, donated the site, a spot not far distant from the home, and with the cooperation of his sons and a few friends, built thereon, the chapel which bears his name and which has since continued to be the center of religious worship and social activities throughout that particular community.

In its churchyard near by lie all that remains of many of her people, and here her body shall rest.

Being the eldest of a family of ten children of sturdy pioneer parents, she early learned the lessons incidental to such life, and these traits thus acquired, served her well through the infirmities of later years.

It is fitting that tribute be given to perhaps her most outstanding habit, that of frugal, unselfish industry.

She was never more happy than when busy at some task, more often in the service of others rather than of herself and giving to it all times her best and most careful efforts.

She was married to George Simpson in December 1877 and to them six children were born, four sons and two daughters.

About seventeen years ago she sustained injuries from a fall from which she never fully recovered.

For the past seven years she had made her home for the most part with a cousin, P. W. Scott and wife, going for occasional visits among other relatives and friends, and it was upon one of these occasions, while at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel that she unexpected passed on, in the evening of Dec. 6, 1932 at the age of 74 years, 8 months and 28 days.

Surviving her are five brothers and one sister, as follows: John of Peru, William of Patterson; Robert of Bevington; Oliver of Chewelah, Wash, and George of St. Charles; and Mrs. Lucy Moore of New Virginia. Two children, a son and a daughter, Ernest Simpson of Newton, Iowa; and Mrs. E. H. Miller of Truro. Twelve grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and many friends.

Funeral services were conducted at Blair chapel by Rev. I. G. Randels of Truro Christian church on Thursday at 2 o'clock December 8, 1932. Music was furnished by a Truro mixed quartet. Interment took place in the cemetery adjoining the Chapel.

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