Sarah Emily (Guess) Mattox 1854-1932

MATTOX, WELLS, FINDLAY, REISNER, CAHILL, THOMPSON

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 9/30/2001 at 15:29:44

SARAH EMILY MATTOX

Sarah Emily Guess was born near Bonaparte, Iowa Sept. 27th 1854. She married Joseph Mattox in the autumn of 1875. No children were born to this union.

Emily Mattox was a faithful and loving wife. For fifty-seven years she shared the sorrows and joys of the little home.

A woman of few words, she was much appreciated by her friends and neighbors. Her dutiful life needed no words to explain it.

Left to mourn her passing are Joseph Mattox, her huband, two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Wells of Farmington and Mrs. Francis Findlay of Sycamore, Ill. and her brother Oliver Guess of Bonaparte. Four neices [sic], Mrs. Belle Reisner of Centerville, Inez Wells at home, Carol Wells of Detroit, Michigan and Mrs. Myrtle Cahill, two nephews George Wells of Farmington and Seth Thompson of Keokuk and other relatives living at a distance.

Mrs. Mattox has been an invalid for six years, but during the last four months has suffered intensely.

Her death was the result of a complication of diseases, including cancer, heart leakage, dropsy and asthma.

She passed away Tuesday Oct 25 1932 at 4:30 p.m. at her home.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from the late home of the deceased in charge of Rev. Horace Ireland.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 38 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County Iowa Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in November 1999. Name and date of newspaper not given.) ORIGINAL POST 19 Nov 1999.

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