Ida (Ewing) Sanford (1887)

EWING, SANFORD

Posted By: Cay Merryman
Date: 8/4/2004 at 11:30:02

Newspaper Unknown
November 1887

Ida Ewing Sanford died November 15, 1887 at 6:30 a.m. at Des Moines, 2013 Pleasant street.

Ida Ewing, wife of James A. Sanford, died of consumption, age 31 years, -- months. (It was a) blow to a loving husband, an ---lizing child, and a wide circle of earnest friends. Mrs. Sanford was born in Winterset and grew to womanhood there. There she was married October 10, 1878, and there she spent the early years of her married live coming to Des Moines, in 1883, when her husband became associated with The Register. She was a member of the Central Presbyterian Church. Her father, Rev. J. O. Ewing, organized the Presbyterian church at Winterset.

The body was taken to Winterset Tuesday afternoon, for burial. Mrs. Sanford’s crowning virtue was her devotion to her home. Her husband and baby were her world. All though her long sickness, lasting many weeks, she evinced no anxiety to live except for those two idols of her life. (corner torn off)
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The Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, November 17, 1887
Page 4, Column 1

Mrs. Ida Ewing Sanford died at Des Moines at half past six o'clock Tuesday morning. Her remains were brought to Winterset for interment. Thus passes away one of the loveliest and best of Winterset's young ladies.

Born and raised here, she was beloved by every-one and all mourn her death, but her life was exemplary, her hope strong, and our great loss is her great gain.

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