Sarah Brown

BROWN, CUMMINS, EVANS, HARBAUGH

Posted By: Volunteer: Barb Evans
Date: 11/26/2013 at 08:48:36

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obit Book C, page 251, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA

Sarah, wife of Orsen Brown, died at her home on the Kelsey farm 4 miles north of Ottumwa Wednesday, the 22d, at 11 o’clock. The decedent was 69 years of age, and survived by her husband and two adopted children, Leroy Brown and Mrs. J.B. Cummins of Ottumwa. The funeral was held at the 24th and the body was interred in the Birmingham cemetery.

Mrs. Brown will be remembered here as Mrs. Sarah Evans, later as the wife of John Harbaugh, and after the death of the latter moving from here to Ottumwa.

[NOTE: Handwritten at the bottom of the obituary is Birmingham Enterprise 30 Mar. 1916 pg. 5]