Sarah Ellen (Rodenberger) Miller (1853-1915)

RODENBERGER, MILLER, STANLEY, BANFORD, MORGAN, TALLMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/28/2024 at 16:09:51

From Story City Herald March 18, 1915 (page 6)

Mrs. John Miller

Sarah Ellen Rodenberger was born near Brazil, Indiana, May 5, 1853, and died at Ames, Iowa, March 11, 1915, aged 61 years, 10 months and 6 days.

When four years of age she emigrated with her parents to Iowa, the entire journey being made by wagons and oxen. They settled near what it now known as Boone but was then called Montana. She and her six brothers and sisters were left orphans when Sarah was six years old. Here she was married March 22, 1870, to John Miller. They moved immediately onto a farm near Mackey. To them were born eleven children, eight of whom together with the father survive her loss. The eight children are Alfred E. of Mackey; Mrs. Hattie B. Stanley and Mrs. Esther Banford of Marshall, Minn.; Mrs. Jennie E. Morgan and Frank A. of Riceville and John K., Herbert A. and Mrs. Edith O. Banford of Ames.

Mrs. Miller united with the Evangelical church of Mackey in the fall of 1880. Since 1904 they have lived at their home on Ontario street in Ames. The deceased leaves the children, the father, a sister, Mrs. John A. Tallman of Marshalltown, two brothers I. D. Rodenberger of Bellingham, Wash., and Ralph of Chicago, twenty-four grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn her departure and recall her life with affection. "They that fall asleep in Jesus shall rise first."

Short services were conducted at their home in Ames. The remains were then taken to Mackey for interment, where C. D. Wendel conducted services in the M. E. church, March 14, 1914.