Sarah Ann (Ingram) Boster (1854-1911)

INGRAM, BOSTER, WRIGHT, THRASHER, HULL, SUTHERLAND, MAXWELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/15/2023 at 20:38:55

From Nevada Evening Journal March 27, 1911 (page 3)

OBITUARY OF MRS. BOSTER

Died at the Home of Her Daughter In Maxwell.

Sarah Ann Ingram was born near Agency, Wapello county, Iowa, Aug. 18, 1854, and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Sutherland, at Maxwell, at noon, Friday, March 24, 1911, aged 56 years, 6 months and 6 days. On a farm near Agency she grew to womanhood and was united in marriage to Stephen T. Boster, Sept. 7, 1873. To this union nine children were born, five sons and four daughters, two of whom, with her husband, have preceded her to the better world. Mrs. Josephine Wright, she passed away at the age 20 and Esaw Marrion at the age of 6 years, and her husband, July 19, 1905. The deceased leaves three brothers, all living in Los Angeles, namely Joseph M., Esaw A., and Charles B. Ingram, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Thrasher, who resides at Nevada. The children are Mrs. Nancy M. Hull and Mrs. Flora T. Sutherland of Maxwell, Milton of Nevada; Charles G. of Seattle, Wash.; Clyde L. Arapaho, Neb., Sarah A. Maxwell and John S. Boster of Maxwell.

On Feb. 19, 1878, she moved with her husband to a farm near Zearing, and has continued to live in Story county ever since. She had planned to visit her brothers in Los Angeles this summer, but her late illness compelled her to give it up. She was of a religious disposition and early in life gave her heart to the Lord and united with the Methodist Episcopal church where she continued to live a consistent christian life until she was called to the church triumphant. She had for a long time cherished a desire to leave a parting message to her children. It seemed for a time that this desire was not to be gratified, but on Tuesday preceding her death she called them to her, one by one, and gave them her final charge and mother's blessing, and informed them that she would willingly die for the salvation of her children.

She suffered for years with asthma and heart trouble which wasted her physical energy away. But amidst it all she was exceedingly patient and though often time suffering pain, she never complained. She was given to look on the bright side of life always found the silver lining to the cloud. She was a lover of children and was always happy in their presence.

She had a longing desire, that when she reached the end of her pilgrimage her departure might not be in the night. The Lord graciously granted this which and midway between sun up and sun-down, her spirit took its departure, to live in that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.