Sarah Miller Keasling 1828-1905

MILLER, KEASLING, LYDOLPH, PROCTOR

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 10/17/2001 at 19:56:30

Mrs. Sarah A. Keasling
Obituary Sketch

Mrs. Sarah Keasling, widow of Frederick Keasling, and eldest daughter of Peter and Mary Miller deceased, died at her home near Bonaparte, August 6, 1905, at the age of 77 years and 3 days. The funeral was held at her late home Aug. 8, at 2 p.m.. The high esteem in which she was held and the heartfelt sympathy for the family filled the house with mourning and sympathizing relatives and friends.

The services were in charge of Rev. Wilkin, pastor of the Baptist church at Bonaparte, who delivered the discourse from Psalm 90 chapter and 10 verse. "The days of our years are four score years and ten," after which interment was made in the Bonaparte cemetery.

Sarah A. Miller was born August 3, 1828 near Somerset, Pa., and the first 26 years of her life were spent at the home of her childhood. In 1854 she accompanied her parents to Van Buren County, Iowa, and was united in marriage to Frederick Keasling May 6, 1856, becoming residents of Bonaparte until 1874 when they removed to a home near that place where her husband died Oct. 15, 1888.

She was the mother of seven children, three of whom, Amanda A., Mary E. and Sarah J., have preceded her to the Great Beyond. There remains William, Chas. F., Henrietta and Archibald, four grand children, and a step son of Elk River, Minn.. These with her three brothers and two sisters and their families, E.E. and S. P. Miller, Mrs. Henrietta Lydolph of Bonaparte and Zebulon Miller and Mrs. Amanda Proctor of Mont., mourn a loving mother and sister.

She united with the Baptist church at Bonaparte about 1863 and has truly lived a conscientious christian life, and although she has been a constant sufferer for more than the year, having been stricken with partial paralysis, she has neither murmured nor complaint.

She was quiet, peaceable and kind and it is safe to say that her highest ambition was that of true womanhood. The supreme purpose of her life was in the perfection of a noble character. Being herself true, she was true to herself and to all others with whom she associated. She has gone but her noble influence remains for those who are left in sorrows wake.

She is mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends but those who are the most deeply affected are the children but let them be assured that their inconsolable grief is largely shared by many and may this so console them, and may the unfolding years steal away their sorrows, plant instead sweet flower of memory and make doubly secured to them the hope of that "All is Well. "

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Source: Entler Scrapbook Collection, vol 3, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA Historical Library, Iowa City, IA