SUTTON, Sarah (1811-1904)

SUTTON

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 1/31/2016 at 16:27:49

Sarah Sutton
(May 31, 1811 - March 4, 1904)

Death of Grandma Sutton
Sarah Brown, daughter. of Robert Brown, was born May 31, 1811, and on April 14th, 1832, was united in marriage to Levi Sutton.. The earlier part of her married life was spent in West Virginia, Ohio. and Indiana; the latter part in Kansas and Iowa. For the pair few years she has lived with her oldest son, A. J. Sutton, of Indianola, Iowa, at which place she died March 4th, 1904.
She was the mother of nine children, the grandmother of twenty-two, the great grandmother of forty-eight, and the great, great grandmother of three. The number surviving her are three children, sixteen grandchildren, forty-three great, grand children, and three great, great grand children. Before leaving West Virginia, she united with the Missionary Baptist church. Finding no church of her choice when she removed to Ohio, she united with the Methodist Episcopal church and, after moving :to Iowa, to the Church of Christ in Christian Union, to which she adhered as an amble devoted Christian until her death.
Funeral services were conducted by C. S. Fair at Belmont Zion church, Sunday, March 6, 1904, in the presence of a large audience of relatives and friends. All that was mortal of Grandma Sutton lies beneath. the sod, but the immortal lives and whispers to ear and heart in the old sweet, gentle tones of the joy of a eoming reunion.
[Copied from a list of obituaries by Rev Charles S. Fair]