Sarah (Crawford) Spedden (1957)

BRIXEY, CRAWFORD, OVERMAN, KITTREIL, SPEDDEN

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 5/14/2007 at 10:41:10

Spokane Chronicle
Spokane, Washington
Thursday, May 23, 1957

Pioneer Schoolteacher, 99 Dies at Clarkston Hospital

Lewiston, Idaho, May 24. - Mrs. Sarah Spedden, 99, pioneer Inland Empire schoolteacher, died yesterday at Tri-State Memorial hospital.

Mrs. Spedden entered the hospital May 17 after breaking a hip in a fall at her home in Clarkston.

She was born March 31, 1858, at Winterset, Iowa, and lived there until 1879. She resided at Dayton, Wash., from 1879 till 1888 and from then until 1937 at Grangeville, Idaho, when she moved to Clarkston to reside with a daughter.

Mrs. Spedden married E.C. Spedden at Dayton, June 21, 1883, and he died in 1933. She was the first member of the Grangerville Baptist church to join after its reorganization in 1896, and she was an honorary member of the Lewiston chapter of Delta Kapp Gamma.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Lotie Overman, Clarkston, and Mrs. Cora Kittrell, Corvallis, Ore.: three grandchildren Ray Overman, Lewiston; Maj. William Kittrell, Fort Leavenworth, Kas., and Mrs. Melcena Brixey, Corvallis, and eight great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Brower Wann Memorial chapel with the Rev. Merle Wood officiating. Burial will be in Prarie View cemetery at Grangeville.

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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
May 29, 1957

PIONEER WOMAN DIES AT 99 YEARS

A Madison county woman, born to pioneer parents at Winterset in 1858, died May 22 at Lewiston, Ida. at the age of 99 years.

She was Mrs. Sarah Spedden, who was the former Sarah Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Crawford, who were residents of Winterset at the time of her birth. She was reared in this community and taught school here as a young woman.

After several years of teaching she accompanied her parents on a trip by covered wagon across the plains and mountains to Idaho. They settled at Dayton, Ida., in 1879. She was married to E. C. Spedden, a civil engineer in 1883. She taught school for 50 years, retiring when she was 69 years of age.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lotie Overman of Clarkston, Ida., and Mrs. Cora Kittreil of Corvallis, Ore.

Funeral services were held at Lewiston and burial at Grangeville, Ida.

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