MISS SARAH MOFFIT PASSES AT HOME
Miss Sarah Ellen Moffit, highly esteemed resident of Princeville passed away early Saturday morning at her home. She had been in poor health for a number of years, but her last illness was of only a week's duration.
Funeral services were held at the Tretheway funeral home Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Lee H. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment was in Princeville cemetery.
Sarah Ellen Moffit was born in Princeville Nov. 27, 1866, the elder daughter of Aaron Carleton Moffit and Ruth Harrison Moffit, to whom also was born a second daughter, Susan Harriett.
While still a small girl her parents moved to Iowa, where her mother died. The family returned to Princeville and her father married Mary Jane Rowcliff on May 1, 1873. To that marriage were born two sons, Fred Howard Moffit and Albert Rowcliff Moffit.
When about eight years old Ella fell and sustained a spinal injury, from which she suffered the remainder of her life. Her education was obtained in the public schools of Princeville and early led to a career as a teacher, which continued for many years in schools in and near Princeville.
She was united the Princeville Presbyterian church on Feb. 5. 1881, and took an active part in church work, taching in the Sunday school and acting for 15 years as secretary and treasurer of the woman's missionary society.
When her father retired from active work she gave up most of her teaching and devoted her life to his care, but after his death in 1920 she left Princeville and went to live in Richmond, Virginia, for about two years. For a time after leaving Richmond she spent part of the year in Princeville and the remainder in Florida and Washington, D. C., but in recent years her failing health and strength compelled her to remain at her home in Princeville.
Miss Moffit had a great love for flowers and throughout her life maintained a keen interest in reading, in current event , and in the affairs of the community in which she found herself. As a result of these interests in things and in people and her life-long interest in church she gained a wide circle of close friends and was held in great esteem in the community.
Miss Moffit is survived by her two nieces, Mrs. Alfred Norton Bean of Rio Linda, Calif., and Mrs. Chester Eugene Whittier of Helena, Mont., the daughters of her sister, Mrs. Alanson Bouton McKown, who died March 11, 1930, also by her brothers, Fred H. Moffit of Washington D. C., and Albert R. Moffit of Poughkeepsie, New York.
Princeville Telephone, Feb, 1942.
Miss Sarah Ellen Moffit, highly esteemed resident of Princeville passed away early Saturday morning at her home. She had been in poor health for a number of years, but her last illness was of only a week's duration.
Funeral services were held at the Tretheway funeral home Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Lee H. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment was in Princeville cemetery.
Sarah Ellen Moffit was born in Princeville Nov. 27, 1866, the elder daughter of Aaron Carleton Moffit and Ruth Harrison Moffit, to whom also was born a second daughter, Susan Harriett.
While still a small girl her parents moved to Iowa, where her mother died. The family returned to Princeville and her father married Mary Jane Rowcliff on May 1, 1873. To that marriage were born two sons, Fred Howard Moffit and Albert Rowcliff Moffit.
When about eight years old Ella fell and sustained a spinal injury, from which she suffered the remainder of her life. Her education was obtained in the public schools of Princeville and early led to a career as a teacher, which continued for many years in schools in and near Princeville.
She was united the Princeville Presbyterian church on Feb. 5. 1881, and took an active part in church work, taching in the Sunday school and acting for 15 years as secretary and treasurer of the woman's missionary society.
When her father retired from active work she gave up most of her teaching and devoted her life to his care, but after his death in 1920 she left Princeville and went to live in Richmond, Virginia, for about two years. For a time after leaving Richmond she spent part of the year in Princeville and the remainder in Florida and Washington, D. C., but in recent years her failing health and strength compelled her to remain at her home in Princeville.
Miss Moffit had a great love for flowers and throughout her life maintained a keen interest in reading, in current event , and in the affairs of the community in which she found herself. As a result of these interests in things and in people and her life-long interest in church she gained a wide circle of close friends and was held in great esteem in the community.
Miss Moffit is survived by her two nieces, Mrs. Alfred Norton Bean of Rio Linda, Calif., and Mrs. Chester Eugene Whittier of Helena, Mont., the daughters of her sister, Mrs. Alanson Bouton McKown, who died March 11, 1930, also by her brothers, Fred H. Moffit of Washington D. C., and Albert R. Moffit of Poughkeepsie, New York.
Princeville Telephone, Feb, 1942.
MISS SARAH MOFFIT PASSES AT HOME
Miss Sarah Ellen Moffit, highly esteemed resident of Princeville passed away early Saturday morning at her home. She had been in poor health for a number of years, but her last illness was of only a week's duration.
Funeral services were held at the Tretheway funeral home Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Lee H. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment was in Princeville cemetery.
Sarah Ellen Moffit was born in Princeville Nov. 27, 1866, the elder daughter of Aaron Carleton Moffit and Ruth Harrison Moffit, to whom also was born a second daughter, Susan Harriett.
While still a small girl her parents moved to Iowa, where her mother died. The family returned to Princeville and her father married Mary Jane Rowcliff on May 1, 1873. To that marriage were born two sons, Fred Howard Moffit and Albert Rowcliff Moffit.
When about eight years old Ella fell and sustained a spinal injury, from which she suffered the remainder of her life. Her education was obtained in the public schools of Princeville and early led to a career as a teacher, which continued for many years in schools in and near Princeville.
She was united the Princeville Presbyterian church on Feb. 5. 1881, and took an active part in church work, taching in the Sunday school and acting for 15 years as secretary and treasurer of the woman's missionary society.
When her father retired from active work she gave up most of her teaching and devoted her life to his care, but after his death in 1920 she left Princeville and went to live in Richmond, Virginia, for about two years. For a time after leaving Richmond she spent part of the year in Princeville and the remainder in Florida and Washington, D. C., but in recent years her failing health and strength compelled her to remain at her home in Princeville.
Miss Moffit had a great love for flowers and throughout her life maintained a keen interest in reading, in current event , and in the affairs of the community in which she found herself. As a result of these interests in things and in people and her life-long interest in church she gained a wide circle of close friends and was held in great esteem in the community.
Miss Moffit is survived by her two nieces, Mrs. Alfred Norton Bean of Rio Linda, Calif., and Mrs. Chester Eugene Whittier of Helena, Mont., the daughters of her sister, Mrs. Alanson Bouton McKown, who died March 11, 1930, also by her brothers, Fred H. Moffit of Washington D. C., and Albert R. Moffit of Poughkeepsie, New York.
Princeville Telephone, Feb, 1942.
Miss Sarah Ellen Moffit, highly esteemed resident of Princeville passed away early Saturday morning at her home. She had been in poor health for a number of years, but her last illness was of only a week's duration.
Funeral services were held at the Tretheway funeral home Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Lee H. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment was in Princeville cemetery.
Sarah Ellen Moffit was born in Princeville Nov. 27, 1866, the elder daughter of Aaron Carleton Moffit and Ruth Harrison Moffit, to whom also was born a second daughter, Susan Harriett.
While still a small girl her parents moved to Iowa, where her mother died. The family returned to Princeville and her father married Mary Jane Rowcliff on May 1, 1873. To that marriage were born two sons, Fred Howard Moffit and Albert Rowcliff Moffit.
When about eight years old Ella fell and sustained a spinal injury, from which she suffered the remainder of her life. Her education was obtained in the public schools of Princeville and early led to a career as a teacher, which continued for many years in schools in and near Princeville.
She was united the Princeville Presbyterian church on Feb. 5. 1881, and took an active part in church work, taching in the Sunday school and acting for 15 years as secretary and treasurer of the woman's missionary society.
When her father retired from active work she gave up most of her teaching and devoted her life to his care, but after his death in 1920 she left Princeville and went to live in Richmond, Virginia, for about two years. For a time after leaving Richmond she spent part of the year in Princeville and the remainder in Florida and Washington, D. C., but in recent years her failing health and strength compelled her to remain at her home in Princeville.
Miss Moffit had a great love for flowers and throughout her life maintained a keen interest in reading, in current event , and in the affairs of the community in which she found herself. As a result of these interests in things and in people and her life-long interest in church she gained a wide circle of close friends and was held in great esteem in the community.
Miss Moffit is survived by her two nieces, Mrs. Alfred Norton Bean of Rio Linda, Calif., and Mrs. Chester Eugene Whittier of Helena, Mont., the daughters of her sister, Mrs. Alanson Bouton McKown, who died March 11, 1930, also by her brothers, Fred H. Moffit of Washington D. C., and Albert R. Moffit of Poughkeepsie, New York.
Princeville Telephone, Feb, 1942.
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