Original obituary as found in Cora Gilbert Kent's scrapbook:
Pioneer Lady Dead - Mrs. Sarah Kent Answers The Final Call - She had lived in this county since soon after its organization - funeral to be held Wednesday
The serious illness of Mrs. Sarah Kent, mother of Judge J.V. Kent, previously mentioned in The Times, terminated at 8:40 yesterday morning in her death at the home of a son, at Cherubusco, Indiana. The body will arrive here at 2:30 this afternoon on the Vandalia and will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kent, on East Clinton Street, where it may be viewed by friends during the rest of the day. The funeral will be held in the old Methodist church in Michigantown, where her husbands' funeral was preached forty-four years ago. Rev. H.G. Ogden will conduct the services. The interment will be in the Michigantown cemetery beside her husband. The corege will leave the residence here at 8:30 a.m.
Saray Boyl was born April 27, 1821, in Richardson County, VA., and in 1833 came to this county with her parents, the family settling near Kirklin, and later taking up their home near Michigantown. On December 31, 1843, she was married to George A. Kent, and to them eight children were born, of whom seven are living, the eldest, Mary E. Walter, dying some thirty years ago. The children living are, Byron Kent, of Nebraska; William Kent, Cherubusco, Ind.; J.V. Kent, of this city; Martha J. Frazier, Burlington, Kansas; Emma Dow, Table Rock, Neb.; Minerva A. Jenkins, Clinton County, and Adrain B. Kent, Boyleston. She is survived also by twenty-six grand-children and thirteen great grand-children.
For eight or nine years she had lived with her son, J.V. Kent, and about August 1st, she went to Cherubusco, to visit her son, William, and family. Her health was remarkably good until about four weeks ago, when she suffered an attack of dysentery. During the latter period of her illness she suffered but little pain and had the full possession of her mental faculties until the last. In her early girlhood, she united with the M.E. Church and ever lived the life of a consistent christian. She was left in 1859 upon the death of her husband, with the responsibility of eight children verying in age from one to fourteen years and a farm but partially cleared. By will she carried the great burden of rearing and educating her children. She was a woman of remarkable intelligence and great business ability. (There are some spelling mistakes in this obituary but I have left them as printed. Also her name was spelled without the "e" on the end and I again left it just as it was printed in the obituary.)
Pioneer Lady Dead - Mrs. Sarah Kent Answers The Final Call - She had lived in this county since soon after its organization - funeral to be held Wednesday
The serious illness of Mrs. Sarah Kent, mother of Judge J.V. Kent, previously mentioned in The Times, terminated at 8:40 yesterday morning in her death at the home of a son, at Cherubusco, Indiana. The body will arrive here at 2:30 this afternoon on the Vandalia and will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kent, on East Clinton Street, where it may be viewed by friends during the rest of the day. The funeral will be held in the old Methodist church in Michigantown, where her husbands' funeral was preached forty-four years ago. Rev. H.G. Ogden will conduct the services. The interment will be in the Michigantown cemetery beside her husband. The corege will leave the residence here at 8:30 a.m.
Saray Boyl was born April 27, 1821, in Richardson County, VA., and in 1833 came to this county with her parents, the family settling near Kirklin, and later taking up their home near Michigantown. On December 31, 1843, she was married to George A. Kent, and to them eight children were born, of whom seven are living, the eldest, Mary E. Walter, dying some thirty years ago. The children living are, Byron Kent, of Nebraska; William Kent, Cherubusco, Ind.; J.V. Kent, of this city; Martha J. Frazier, Burlington, Kansas; Emma Dow, Table Rock, Neb.; Minerva A. Jenkins, Clinton County, and Adrain B. Kent, Boyleston. She is survived also by twenty-six grand-children and thirteen great grand-children.
For eight or nine years she had lived with her son, J.V. Kent, and about August 1st, she went to Cherubusco, to visit her son, William, and family. Her health was remarkably good until about four weeks ago, when she suffered an attack of dysentery. During the latter period of her illness she suffered but little pain and had the full possession of her mental faculties until the last. In her early girlhood, she united with the M.E. Church and ever lived the life of a consistent christian. She was left in 1859 upon the death of her husband, with the responsibility of eight children verying in age from one to fourteen years and a farm but partially cleared. By will she carried the great burden of rearing and educating her children. She was a woman of remarkable intelligence and great business ability. (There are some spelling mistakes in this obituary but I have left them as printed. Also her name was spelled without the "e" on the end and I again left it just as it was printed in the obituary.)
Original obituary as found in Cora Gilbert Kent's scrapbook:
Pioneer Lady Dead - Mrs. Sarah Kent Answers The Final Call - She had lived in this county since soon after its organization - funeral to be held Wednesday
The serious illness of Mrs. Sarah Kent, mother of Judge J.V. Kent, previously mentioned in The Times, terminated at 8:40 yesterday morning in her death at the home of a son, at Cherubusco, Indiana. The body will arrive here at 2:30 this afternoon on the Vandalia and will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kent, on East Clinton Street, where it may be viewed by friends during the rest of the day. The funeral will be held in the old Methodist church in Michigantown, where her husbands' funeral was preached forty-four years ago. Rev. H.G. Ogden will conduct the services. The interment will be in the Michigantown cemetery beside her husband. The corege will leave the residence here at 8:30 a.m.
Saray Boyl was born April 27, 1821, in Richardson County, VA., and in 1833 came to this county with her parents, the family settling near Kirklin, and later taking up their home near Michigantown. On December 31, 1843, she was married to George A. Kent, and to them eight children were born, of whom seven are living, the eldest, Mary E. Walter, dying some thirty years ago. The children living are, Byron Kent, of Nebraska; William Kent, Cherubusco, Ind.; J.V. Kent, of this city; Martha J. Frazier, Burlington, Kansas; Emma Dow, Table Rock, Neb.; Minerva A. Jenkins, Clinton County, and Adrain B. Kent, Boyleston. She is survived also by twenty-six grand-children and thirteen great grand-children.
For eight or nine years she had lived with her son, J.V. Kent, and about August 1st, she went to Cherubusco, to visit her son, William, and family. Her health was remarkably good until about four weeks ago, when she suffered an attack of dysentery. During the latter period of her illness she suffered but little pain and had the full possession of her mental faculties until the last. In her early girlhood, she united with the M.E. Church and ever lived the life of a consistent christian. She was left in 1859 upon the death of her husband, with the responsibility of eight children verying in age from one to fourteen years and a farm but partially cleared. By will she carried the great burden of rearing and educating her children. She was a woman of remarkable intelligence and great business ability. (There are some spelling mistakes in this obituary but I have left them as printed. Also her name was spelled without the "e" on the end and I again left it just as it was printed in the obituary.)
Pioneer Lady Dead - Mrs. Sarah Kent Answers The Final Call - She had lived in this county since soon after its organization - funeral to be held Wednesday
The serious illness of Mrs. Sarah Kent, mother of Judge J.V. Kent, previously mentioned in The Times, terminated at 8:40 yesterday morning in her death at the home of a son, at Cherubusco, Indiana. The body will arrive here at 2:30 this afternoon on the Vandalia and will be taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kent, on East Clinton Street, where it may be viewed by friends during the rest of the day. The funeral will be held in the old Methodist church in Michigantown, where her husbands' funeral was preached forty-four years ago. Rev. H.G. Ogden will conduct the services. The interment will be in the Michigantown cemetery beside her husband. The corege will leave the residence here at 8:30 a.m.
Saray Boyl was born April 27, 1821, in Richardson County, VA., and in 1833 came to this county with her parents, the family settling near Kirklin, and later taking up their home near Michigantown. On December 31, 1843, she was married to George A. Kent, and to them eight children were born, of whom seven are living, the eldest, Mary E. Walter, dying some thirty years ago. The children living are, Byron Kent, of Nebraska; William Kent, Cherubusco, Ind.; J.V. Kent, of this city; Martha J. Frazier, Burlington, Kansas; Emma Dow, Table Rock, Neb.; Minerva A. Jenkins, Clinton County, and Adrain B. Kent, Boyleston. She is survived also by twenty-six grand-children and thirteen great grand-children.
For eight or nine years she had lived with her son, J.V. Kent, and about August 1st, she went to Cherubusco, to visit her son, William, and family. Her health was remarkably good until about four weeks ago, when she suffered an attack of dysentery. During the latter period of her illness she suffered but little pain and had the full possession of her mental faculties until the last. In her early girlhood, she united with the M.E. Church and ever lived the life of a consistent christian. She was left in 1859 upon the death of her husband, with the responsibility of eight children verying in age from one to fourteen years and a farm but partially cleared. By will she carried the great burden of rearing and educating her children. She was a woman of remarkable intelligence and great business ability. (There are some spelling mistakes in this obituary but I have left them as printed. Also her name was spelled without the "e" on the end and I again left it just as it was printed in the obituary.)
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