Elizabeth Ann (Evans) Sapp (1857-1913)

BURTON, DAWSON, EVANS, FLESHMAN, INGRAHAM, SAPP

Posted By: Jerry Hale (email)
Date: 8/18/2009 at 20:59:14

Collins Gazette 12-04-1913

Another home has been visited by the angel of death. This time it was a wife and mother who answered the summons to leave this world to join the loved ones who had gone on before.

Mrs. Anna Sapp, wife of C. W. Sapp passed away at their home six and one half miles south of Galt, Mo. at 20 minutes till 8 o'clock Tuesday night Nov. 25, 1913.

She had been ill for several months with that dread disease tuberculosis and since she had been first seized there has been but little hopes for her recovery, although loving hands did all that could be done to make her suffering easier to be borne. Although a sufferer for many years she was patient to the end, but being weakened by her long illness was unable to ward off the last attack; her death was peaceful, bidding all good bye and she was ready to join her savior.

Elizabeth Ann Evans was born at Walnut, Bureau Co., Illinois, Feb. 6, 1857. She came with her parents to Iowa when 9 years old to a farm in Story Co. where she lived until her marriage to C.W. Sapp, Dec. 23, 1875. To them were born 10 children, all of whom survive her but two who preceded her to the great beyond.

The children could not all be at her bedside at the time of her death, but all but Otto, who could not leave, were present at the funeral. She leaves to mourn her loss besides the husband, eight children, Otto, Edd and Ernest of Doland S. D. Mrs. Minnie Ingraham of Sewal, Ia. Mrs. Tressie Fleshman of Marshalltown, and Mamie, Ray and Celeste still home, also 5 grandchildren and a brother, S.W. Evans of Merine, Colo. and Mrs. Mollie Dawson of Mingo, Iowa.

At the age of 16 yrs. she gave her heart to God, uniting with the M.P. church till moving to S.D., when she changed to M.E. and when coming to Missouri reunited with the N.P. where she lived a devoted christian until the end. She was a constant attendant at church services, until a few years ago when failing health made it impossible to attend, yet she never forgot her savior.

She was a loving wife and a kind mother, bearing her suffering patiently, often saying if it was the Lord's will for her to suffer, all was well with her.

She was one of a family of eighteen children, only two remaining to mourn her loss.

The funeral was held in the Collins M.E. church last Friday. Rev. C.E. Burton of Seymour preached the sermon, an eloquent and comforting discourse. There was a large congregation of friends and old neighbors to pay a last tribute to deceased and give their sympathy to the bereaved [word unreadable.]

The deceased chose her funeral text and songs. Her body was laid to rest in the Day Cemetery at Collins, Iowa, Nov. 28, 1913.