Sarah Ellen (Porter) Wilson (1934)

BERRY, GUYS, HENDERSON, JEFFS, KEEVERPERSINGER, PORTER, RICHEY, SEAMAN, SNOW, WELTY, WILSON, YOUREE

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 3/24/2007 at 20:47:55

The Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, Winterset, Iowa
August 30, 1934
Page 1

Death of Mrs. Sarah Wilson

Mrs. Sarah Wilson, 67, died here at the home of her niece, Mrs. Laura Berry, on Sunday, August 26.

Mrs. Wilson was a life-long resident of Madison county and the daughter of pioneer settlers. She was born in this county as Sarah Ellen Porter on March 13, 1867. In 1883 she was married to Alexander Wilson and they were the parents of two children, a daughter who died in infancy, and a son, Walter, who died at Camp Dodge while in the service during the World war. Her husband died in 1914, and since that time she has made her home on her farm and with her niece, Mrs. Berry.

Mrs. Wilson always maintained her church membership with the Fellowship Congregational, although of late years she had been attending the Ord Christian Union church.

The deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Cora May Youree, of Arkansas, and Mrs. Fannie Richey, of Des Moines; two brothers, Andrew Porter, of Lorimor, and George Porter, of Wyoming; a half brother, Isaac Persinger, of Kansas; and the following nieces and nephews; Mrs. Laura Berry, of Winterset; Mrs. Easter Jeffs, and George Snow, of Peru; Mrs. Maxine Seaman and Everett Wilson, of Des Moines; Mrs. Mary Guys, of Omaha; Mrs. James Keever and Sarah Ann Henderson and Mrs. Nellie Welty, of Macksburg; Lee Porter, of Winterset, and Edson Porter, of Newton.

Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Sunday, August 26, from the Ramsey-Richards funeral home. The Rev. W. C. Porter, of the United Presbyterian church, was in charge. Burial was made in the Hamblin cemetery.

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