Charlotte (Frazee) Sandham (1921)

BILDERBACK, COMPTON, FRAZEE, KAIL, SANDHAM

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/18/2013 at 08:06:48

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Wednesday, October 27, 1921
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In the early morning of October 21st, Charlotte Frazier Sandham, another of Earlham’s early pioneers, passed the portals that open into eternity.

She was born in Decatur, Illinois, February 25, 1835, where her early life was spent. On December 5th, 1860, she became the wife of James Sandham. Six years later these home makers with their two little children moved to Iowa, settling in Madison county. They lived in or near Earlham until twenty-seven years ago when they moved to Stuart. In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Sandham went to Spokane, Wash. where the husband died. A few years afterward she returned to Iowa. The last ten years she has been an invalid. A larger part of this time she lived with her daughter Mrs. Fannie Bilderback, from whom she has received most loving tender care.

In her girlhood days in Illinois she joined the Methodist Church. Later she united with the M.E. church here.

She was the mother of seven children, Mrs. Clara Compton, who died last August; Wm. Sandham of Klamath Falls, Oregon; D. C. Sandham of Spokane, Wash., Mrs. Fannie Bilderback of Earlham, Mrs. Alice Rude, Twin Falls, Ida., Mrs. Lillian Reed of Anita, Iowa, and Mrs. Susan Leeper of Dexter. In her early married life she also shared her home with a younger sister, a niece and two nephews who were orphans.

She has twenty-five grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Almira Blake of Guthrie Center is living.

And now between the lines of this brief sketch one can read of eighty-six years of joy, loving service, home cares, trials, struggle, sorrow, pain, patience and in and through all, of a hope that reaches beyond the walls of time to a glorious resurrection.

Funeral services were held from the home of Mrs. Fannie Bilderback Sabbath afternoon with Rev. Chas. Lescault officiating and a ladies quartet from the Christian Church furnishing the music. Burial at Stuart.
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Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, October 26, 1921
Page 7

Earlham

The funeral of Mrs. Charlotte Sandham was held at the home of her daughter Mrs. Carrie Bilderback, Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Lescault, pastor of the Friends church. Interment was made in the Stuart cemetery.

Mrs. Sandham, with her husband, was one of the pioneers of Earlham, but they later moved to Washington, where the husband died. Mrs. Sandham has been an invalid for about ten years and has been at the Bilderback home off and on during that time, but has been almost continuously with her daughter, Mrs. Bilderback for the past three or four years.

She leaves six children, 25 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren to mourn the loss of one who was very dear to them. The oldest daughter, Mrs. P. B. Compton, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emmett Kail, at Twin Falls, Idaho, last August.
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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, maiden name verified on father's gravestone as "Frazee"

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