Sarah J. Rhoads

MCCAFFREY RHOADS, GORDON, DUNCAN, OLSON

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/18/2014 at 11:23:58

DEATH NOTICES

Rhoads

Mrs. Sarah J. Rhoads, 75 years old, died at 6 a.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Gordon, Moline locks, Rock Island arsenal, following an illness of five week’s duration with complications. Sarah J. McCaffrey was born in New Orleans, La., on Dec. 17, 1852, where she married Stephen Roads sixty-one years ago. Since that time has resided in Rock Island and at the arsenal.

She is survived by one son and three daughters, Mrs. J. B. Gordon, Rock Island arsenal, Mrs. James Duncan, Moline, and Mrs. Theo. Olson, Rock Island, six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday from the Danielson & Furgie funeral home, Rev. W. G. Oglevee, pastor of the South Park Presbyterian church of Rock Island, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.

Source: The Daily Times, Davenport, Ia., 25 Sept 1928, p. 21.