WELLER, Sarah Jane: 1876-1937

WELLER, GREEN, PITNEY

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Sarah Jane Weller

Sarah Jane Weller, daughter of George and Nan Green, was born in Clark county, Missouri, near Acasto, December 21, 1876, and spent most of her life there.

She attended school at the Dunkin school.

Sarah Jane Green was united in marriage to Fred Weller March 4 1900, by Webster Burrier, of Acasto, Missouri. After an illness of about two years duration, she passed away at the home of her mother, in Farmington, Sept. 18, 1937, at the age of sixty years, eight months and twenty seven days.

Mrs. Weller was one of four children born to her parents Two brothers Charles Green, of Farmiagton, and James Green, of Sigourney Iowa and one sister, Mrs. Charles Pitney, of Farmington as well as her aged mother, Mrs. Nan Green, remain to feel keenly the loss of her. Her father departed this life at Farmington, February 19, 1917.

Mrs. Weller was a ??? delighted in extending courtesy and kindness to her many neighbors and friends and she will be greatly missed by them The above was attested by the way in which her neighbors and friends came to comfort her in her last illness. Mrs. Weller was subjected to great pain and much suffering but was an heroic sufferer.

Mrs. Weller was converted in her late home in Missouri, about one year and a ha f ago, as the result of hearing a Radio Sermon. She said, "I knelt down and prayed and a great change took place and I accepted Christ as my Savior." At the request of Mrs. Weller, Rev. Harvey E. Butler, baptised her in the Christian faith Wednesday, September 8, 1937, and then received her in full membership in the Farmington Methodist Episcopal Church, in the presence of a number of neighbors and friends.

Source: Scrapbook of Unknown Origin, Page 137