Sarah (Jennings) Kegley (1826-1910)

JENNINGS, KEGLEY, KEIGLEY, BLACKMAN, HECKER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/31/2017 at 21:24:49

From Nevada Representative May 3, 1910 (front page)

Death of Mrs. Kegley.

Mrs. John Keigley a Story county pioneer of 1853, died last Friday at the hoe of her youngest daughter in Monte Vista, Colorado, and her remains now await at Ames the funeral which is to be held in the Congregational church there at two o'clock Wednesday.

From Nevada Representative May 6, 1910 (front page)

OBITUARY

Funeral of Mrs. John H. Keigley

The funeral of Mrs Sarah Jennings Keigly was held Wednesday afternoon in the Presbyterian church at Ames, Rev. I. Fowle pastor of the Baptist church of which Mrs. Keigley had ever since its organization been a member, conducting the services, and a host of people testifying to pleasant remembrance and esteem. Mrs. Keigley, as was stated in our last issue, died April 29th, 1910, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie K. Blackman, at Monte Vista, Colorado. Her age was almost eighty-four. She had spent the last three years with this daughter, and had retired comfortably on the evening of her demise, when the household were startled with the sound of her little call bell and hastening to her she was found unconscious with the bell still in her hand. She dropped off quickly and quietly as any one might which to do, with the least possible interference in the march of events around her. Her husband passed away just eleven years before her.

Nine of their eleven children survive. They are John J. of Sawtell, California; T. J. of Olympia, Washington; F. T. of Urbana, Ill.; Dr. E. A. of Cedar Rapids, iowa; B. of Palouse, Washington; C. H. of Los Angeles; S. M. of Colfax, Ia., and Mrs. Lizzie K. Blackman and Mrs. Lillie K. Hecker of Monte Vista, Colorado.

Mrs. Keigley was the first white woman who settled in Franklin township. She and Mr. Keigley came there from Mount Vernon, Ohio in 1853, and eloquent is testimony of old settlers to the hospitality and kindness which their home centralized.