OBITUARY
Sarah Jane Chase was born near Princeville, Il, Oct. 4th 1843. Her parents, Simon P. and Ann Huston Chase had come overland from Cornish, New Hampshire in 1842 to their prairie home and it was in a long cabin her birth occurred. She had one older sister, Martha, now Mrs. Jas. Harbaugh of Red Oak, Ia., who still lives and one brother Philander who died at the old home near Princeville in 1899.
Hers was a happy childhood where music, religion and honest toil were a part of daily life. When she was about sixteen, she and her sister with several other young friend untied with the Princeville Presbyterian church.
Her early education was gained in the public schools and Academy at Princeville and also at a girls' seminary at Henry, Ill.
She taught her first school term at the age of fifteen and continued teaching for about five years in Peoria and Stark Counties.
Sarah Chase was married to Marvin Eldred, May 12th 1864 at Princeville and moved at once to their farm near Roseville, where their only child, May, now Mrs. Geo. Meacham, was born. This daughter with her four children, Cora, (Mrs. Hugh Kirkpatrick) Marvin, Ruth and Leland survive her.
Mrs. Eldred at once identified herself with the Roseville Congregational church and gave her services as organist.
After ten years of farm life, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred moved to the village of Roseville. Here Mr. Eldred died in January 1885.
Mrs. Eldred has since that time made her at Roseville except for a period of ten years spent at Garden City, Kas. and at Galesburg, Ill.
Since returning to Roseville she had lived quietly alone in her little "Vine" Cottage as she named it, finding pleasure in literature and in her wide correspondence with friends and in her church work.
She also enjoyed her membership in the D. A. R. and the Bay View Reading Circle.
All her life, wherever she was Mrs. Eldred has faithfully attended and worked in the church, teaching in the Sunday School and laboring in the Missionary societies.
For some years she was Vice president of the Illinois Home Missionary Society for Central West Association.
She loved young people and was constantly doing helpful, pleasant things for them, as her nieces, nephews, grandchildren and a large circle of other young people in her community can testify.
She has almost a lifelong habit of visiting "shut-ins" carrying cheer on many a dull day. How she enjoyed her services of the big Central church in Galesburg, yet none the less ardently did she work in the little church she attended in Roseville. Much more might be said of her beautiful life, but she herself "being dead, yet speaketh."
Last New Year's night she suffered a paralytic stroke and the effects of this with other complication caused her death which occurred at the home of her daughter on Saturday at 11 a.m. March 27, 1915.
Sarah Jane Chase was born near Princeville, Il, Oct. 4th 1843. Her parents, Simon P. and Ann Huston Chase had come overland from Cornish, New Hampshire in 1842 to their prairie home and it was in a long cabin her birth occurred. She had one older sister, Martha, now Mrs. Jas. Harbaugh of Red Oak, Ia., who still lives and one brother Philander who died at the old home near Princeville in 1899.
Hers was a happy childhood where music, religion and honest toil were a part of daily life. When she was about sixteen, she and her sister with several other young friend untied with the Princeville Presbyterian church.
Her early education was gained in the public schools and Academy at Princeville and also at a girls' seminary at Henry, Ill.
She taught her first school term at the age of fifteen and continued teaching for about five years in Peoria and Stark Counties.
Sarah Chase was married to Marvin Eldred, May 12th 1864 at Princeville and moved at once to their farm near Roseville, where their only child, May, now Mrs. Geo. Meacham, was born. This daughter with her four children, Cora, (Mrs. Hugh Kirkpatrick) Marvin, Ruth and Leland survive her.
Mrs. Eldred at once identified herself with the Roseville Congregational church and gave her services as organist.
After ten years of farm life, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred moved to the village of Roseville. Here Mr. Eldred died in January 1885.
Mrs. Eldred has since that time made her at Roseville except for a period of ten years spent at Garden City, Kas. and at Galesburg, Ill.
Since returning to Roseville she had lived quietly alone in her little "Vine" Cottage as she named it, finding pleasure in literature and in her wide correspondence with friends and in her church work.
She also enjoyed her membership in the D. A. R. and the Bay View Reading Circle.
All her life, wherever she was Mrs. Eldred has faithfully attended and worked in the church, teaching in the Sunday School and laboring in the Missionary societies.
For some years she was Vice president of the Illinois Home Missionary Society for Central West Association.
She loved young people and was constantly doing helpful, pleasant things for them, as her nieces, nephews, grandchildren and a large circle of other young people in her community can testify.
She has almost a lifelong habit of visiting "shut-ins" carrying cheer on many a dull day. How she enjoyed her services of the big Central church in Galesburg, yet none the less ardently did she work in the little church she attended in Roseville. Much more might be said of her beautiful life, but she herself "being dead, yet speaketh."
Last New Year's night she suffered a paralytic stroke and the effects of this with other complication caused her death which occurred at the home of her daughter on Saturday at 11 a.m. March 27, 1915.
OBITUARY
Sarah Jane Chase was born near Princeville, Il, Oct. 4th 1843. Her parents, Simon P. and Ann Huston Chase had come overland from Cornish, New Hampshire in 1842 to their prairie home and it was in a long cabin her birth occurred. She had one older sister, Martha, now Mrs. Jas. Harbaugh of Red Oak, Ia., who still lives and one brother Philander who died at the old home near Princeville in 1899.
Hers was a happy childhood where music, religion and honest toil were a part of daily life. When she was about sixteen, she and her sister with several other young friend untied with the Princeville Presbyterian church.
Her early education was gained in the public schools and Academy at Princeville and also at a girls' seminary at Henry, Ill.
She taught her first school term at the age of fifteen and continued teaching for about five years in Peoria and Stark Counties.
Sarah Chase was married to Marvin Eldred, May 12th 1864 at Princeville and moved at once to their farm near Roseville, where their only child, May, now Mrs. Geo. Meacham, was born. This daughter with her four children, Cora, (Mrs. Hugh Kirkpatrick) Marvin, Ruth and Leland survive her.
Mrs. Eldred at once identified herself with the Roseville Congregational church and gave her services as organist.
After ten years of farm life, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred moved to the village of Roseville. Here Mr. Eldred died in January 1885.
Mrs. Eldred has since that time made her at Roseville except for a period of ten years spent at Garden City, Kas. and at Galesburg, Ill.
Since returning to Roseville she had lived quietly alone in her little "Vine" Cottage as she named it, finding pleasure in literature and in her wide correspondence with friends and in her church work.
She also enjoyed her membership in the D. A. R. and the Bay View Reading Circle.
All her life, wherever she was Mrs. Eldred has faithfully attended and worked in the church, teaching in the Sunday School and laboring in the Missionary societies.
For some years she was Vice president of the Illinois Home Missionary Society for Central West Association.
She loved young people and was constantly doing helpful, pleasant things for them, as her nieces, nephews, grandchildren and a large circle of other young people in her community can testify.
She has almost a lifelong habit of visiting "shut-ins" carrying cheer on many a dull day. How she enjoyed her services of the big Central church in Galesburg, yet none the less ardently did she work in the little church she attended in Roseville. Much more might be said of her beautiful life, but she herself "being dead, yet speaketh."
Last New Year's night she suffered a paralytic stroke and the effects of this with other complication caused her death which occurred at the home of her daughter on Saturday at 11 a.m. March 27, 1915.
Sarah Jane Chase was born near Princeville, Il, Oct. 4th 1843. Her parents, Simon P. and Ann Huston Chase had come overland from Cornish, New Hampshire in 1842 to their prairie home and it was in a long cabin her birth occurred. She had one older sister, Martha, now Mrs. Jas. Harbaugh of Red Oak, Ia., who still lives and one brother Philander who died at the old home near Princeville in 1899.
Hers was a happy childhood where music, religion and honest toil were a part of daily life. When she was about sixteen, she and her sister with several other young friend untied with the Princeville Presbyterian church.
Her early education was gained in the public schools and Academy at Princeville and also at a girls' seminary at Henry, Ill.
She taught her first school term at the age of fifteen and continued teaching for about five years in Peoria and Stark Counties.
Sarah Chase was married to Marvin Eldred, May 12th 1864 at Princeville and moved at once to their farm near Roseville, where their only child, May, now Mrs. Geo. Meacham, was born. This daughter with her four children, Cora, (Mrs. Hugh Kirkpatrick) Marvin, Ruth and Leland survive her.
Mrs. Eldred at once identified herself with the Roseville Congregational church and gave her services as organist.
After ten years of farm life, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred moved to the village of Roseville. Here Mr. Eldred died in January 1885.
Mrs. Eldred has since that time made her at Roseville except for a period of ten years spent at Garden City, Kas. and at Galesburg, Ill.
Since returning to Roseville she had lived quietly alone in her little "Vine" Cottage as she named it, finding pleasure in literature and in her wide correspondence with friends and in her church work.
She also enjoyed her membership in the D. A. R. and the Bay View Reading Circle.
All her life, wherever she was Mrs. Eldred has faithfully attended and worked in the church, teaching in the Sunday School and laboring in the Missionary societies.
For some years she was Vice president of the Illinois Home Missionary Society for Central West Association.
She loved young people and was constantly doing helpful, pleasant things for them, as her nieces, nephews, grandchildren and a large circle of other young people in her community can testify.
She has almost a lifelong habit of visiting "shut-ins" carrying cheer on many a dull day. How she enjoyed her services of the big Central church in Galesburg, yet none the less ardently did she work in the little church she attended in Roseville. Much more might be said of her beautiful life, but she herself "being dead, yet speaketh."
Last New Year's night she suffered a paralytic stroke and the effects of this with other complication caused her death which occurred at the home of her daughter on Saturday at 11 a.m. March 27, 1915.
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