unidentified Hendricks County, IN, newspaper, September 1923
When a birth is exected in any family it is anticipated with great joy. So also said the angels in announcing the birth of Christ. When the time arrives that the marriage vows are to be exchanged how happy are those concerned and everything is expectancy. Did not the Redeemer grace and add to the pleasure of such an occasion? But when the death angel brings his summons calling one of us hence why should all be different? Plato in his most solemn moment said that the time of our departure should be the happiest moment of our life. And our Master informed His followers that they should not be depressed by His going hence.
Sarah Ann Shirley, the third of six children given to the watchcare and keeping of William Taylor and Mary (Worrell) Shirley, was born near Gosport, Indiana, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 1833 and departed this life at Clayton, Indiana, Thursday, Sept. 20, 1923, having journeyed on earth one month less than ninety years.
When quite young, being six years of age, she came with the family of her parents to Hendricks county, locating in Liberty township where she remained with the family until she was united in marriage Sunday, September 26, 1852 to Robert Nathan Harvey, Captain Crawford, of Danville, officiating. The young couple set up to housekeeping nearby on a farm and as a sideline the husband conducted a blacksmith shop. Hard labor was the lot of both but they prospered and in 1864 they purchased a forty acre farm north of Pecksburg, adding from time to time thereto and continued a successful career which was not checked until the frosts of many winters had admonished them to lay aside in a measure their worldly cares, however, reluctantly. This was hastened by a fire which consumed their country home with the greater part of its contents late on Saturday afternoon, December 28, 1912, following which they bought property in Clayton, but it was never "home" to them. Their minds were continually reverting back to the scenes of their younger days and the home they had carved out by the toil of their own hands.
The husband was converted under the preaching of the Rev. George W. Perry in a series of evangelical meetings he was conducted at Pecksburg early in 1861 and united with the Clayton Baptist church. Later, he was set apart and ordained as a minister of the Gospel and has served a majorty of the Baptist churches of the White Lick Baptist Association as Under Shepherd. He departed this life Friday, Jan. 27, 1922.
To this union were born three children: George Allen Harvey, who passed away on Sunday, April 29, 1922, in his sixty-eighth year; William Dayton Harvey, of Clayton, and Frank Lincoln Harvey born in 1860 but dying when eight months of age.
Early in life Mrs. Harvey confessed faith in Christ as her Savior and placed her membership with the Clayton Baptist church but in fact when the Amo Baptist church organized she and her husband became charter members and now she has been the last of them to cross the Great Divide and go into the Beyond. She also was the last survivor of the original Shirley family as were her husband of the Harvey family.
She is survived by one son, William D. Harvey; two grandchildsons[sic], Herbert S. Harvey of Clayton, and Frank Allen Harvey, of Portland, Oregon; one great grandson, George Raymond Harvey, of Clayton; and one niece, especially Mrs. Sarah E. Moon of Plainfield, who in her younger days made her home in the Harvey fmaily; and many othter relatives.
For a number of years her health has been on the decline and during the shadows of last Thursday night her spirit went to the eternal light everlasting where she will be with all the associates of her younger days.
The funeral services were conducted at her late home on Saturday afternoon, September 22, 1923, by the Rev. Allen W. McDaniel following which the remains were taken to Plainfield and placed in the Maple Lawn cemetery to await the great resurrection morn.
When a birth is exected in any family it is anticipated with great joy. So also said the angels in announcing the birth of Christ. When the time arrives that the marriage vows are to be exchanged how happy are those concerned and everything is expectancy. Did not the Redeemer grace and add to the pleasure of such an occasion? But when the death angel brings his summons calling one of us hence why should all be different? Plato in his most solemn moment said that the time of our departure should be the happiest moment of our life. And our Master informed His followers that they should not be depressed by His going hence.
Sarah Ann Shirley, the third of six children given to the watchcare and keeping of William Taylor and Mary (Worrell) Shirley, was born near Gosport, Indiana, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 1833 and departed this life at Clayton, Indiana, Thursday, Sept. 20, 1923, having journeyed on earth one month less than ninety years.
When quite young, being six years of age, she came with the family of her parents to Hendricks county, locating in Liberty township where she remained with the family until she was united in marriage Sunday, September 26, 1852 to Robert Nathan Harvey, Captain Crawford, of Danville, officiating. The young couple set up to housekeeping nearby on a farm and as a sideline the husband conducted a blacksmith shop. Hard labor was the lot of both but they prospered and in 1864 they purchased a forty acre farm north of Pecksburg, adding from time to time thereto and continued a successful career which was not checked until the frosts of many winters had admonished them to lay aside in a measure their worldly cares, however, reluctantly. This was hastened by a fire which consumed their country home with the greater part of its contents late on Saturday afternoon, December 28, 1912, following which they bought property in Clayton, but it was never "home" to them. Their minds were continually reverting back to the scenes of their younger days and the home they had carved out by the toil of their own hands.
The husband was converted under the preaching of the Rev. George W. Perry in a series of evangelical meetings he was conducted at Pecksburg early in 1861 and united with the Clayton Baptist church. Later, he was set apart and ordained as a minister of the Gospel and has served a majorty of the Baptist churches of the White Lick Baptist Association as Under Shepherd. He departed this life Friday, Jan. 27, 1922.
To this union were born three children: George Allen Harvey, who passed away on Sunday, April 29, 1922, in his sixty-eighth year; William Dayton Harvey, of Clayton, and Frank Lincoln Harvey born in 1860 but dying when eight months of age.
Early in life Mrs. Harvey confessed faith in Christ as her Savior and placed her membership with the Clayton Baptist church but in fact when the Amo Baptist church organized she and her husband became charter members and now she has been the last of them to cross the Great Divide and go into the Beyond. She also was the last survivor of the original Shirley family as were her husband of the Harvey family.
She is survived by one son, William D. Harvey; two grandchildsons[sic], Herbert S. Harvey of Clayton, and Frank Allen Harvey, of Portland, Oregon; one great grandson, George Raymond Harvey, of Clayton; and one niece, especially Mrs. Sarah E. Moon of Plainfield, who in her younger days made her home in the Harvey fmaily; and many othter relatives.
For a number of years her health has been on the decline and during the shadows of last Thursday night her spirit went to the eternal light everlasting where she will be with all the associates of her younger days.
The funeral services were conducted at her late home on Saturday afternoon, September 22, 1923, by the Rev. Allen W. McDaniel following which the remains were taken to Plainfield and placed in the Maple Lawn cemetery to await the great resurrection morn.
unidentified Hendricks County, IN, newspaper, September 1923
When a birth is exected in any family it is anticipated with great joy. So also said the angels in announcing the birth of Christ. When the time arrives that the marriage vows are to be exchanged how happy are those concerned and everything is expectancy. Did not the Redeemer grace and add to the pleasure of such an occasion? But when the death angel brings his summons calling one of us hence why should all be different? Plato in his most solemn moment said that the time of our departure should be the happiest moment of our life. And our Master informed His followers that they should not be depressed by His going hence.
Sarah Ann Shirley, the third of six children given to the watchcare and keeping of William Taylor and Mary (Worrell) Shirley, was born near Gosport, Indiana, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 1833 and departed this life at Clayton, Indiana, Thursday, Sept. 20, 1923, having journeyed on earth one month less than ninety years.
When quite young, being six years of age, she came with the family of her parents to Hendricks county, locating in Liberty township where she remained with the family until she was united in marriage Sunday, September 26, 1852 to Robert Nathan Harvey, Captain Crawford, of Danville, officiating. The young couple set up to housekeeping nearby on a farm and as a sideline the husband conducted a blacksmith shop. Hard labor was the lot of both but they prospered and in 1864 they purchased a forty acre farm north of Pecksburg, adding from time to time thereto and continued a successful career which was not checked until the frosts of many winters had admonished them to lay aside in a measure their worldly cares, however, reluctantly. This was hastened by a fire which consumed their country home with the greater part of its contents late on Saturday afternoon, December 28, 1912, following which they bought property in Clayton, but it was never "home" to them. Their minds were continually reverting back to the scenes of their younger days and the home they had carved out by the toil of their own hands.
The husband was converted under the preaching of the Rev. George W. Perry in a series of evangelical meetings he was conducted at Pecksburg early in 1861 and united with the Clayton Baptist church. Later, he was set apart and ordained as a minister of the Gospel and has served a majorty of the Baptist churches of the White Lick Baptist Association as Under Shepherd. He departed this life Friday, Jan. 27, 1922.
To this union were born three children: George Allen Harvey, who passed away on Sunday, April 29, 1922, in his sixty-eighth year; William Dayton Harvey, of Clayton, and Frank Lincoln Harvey born in 1860 but dying when eight months of age.
Early in life Mrs. Harvey confessed faith in Christ as her Savior and placed her membership with the Clayton Baptist church but in fact when the Amo Baptist church organized she and her husband became charter members and now she has been the last of them to cross the Great Divide and go into the Beyond. She also was the last survivor of the original Shirley family as were her husband of the Harvey family.
She is survived by one son, William D. Harvey; two grandchildsons[sic], Herbert S. Harvey of Clayton, and Frank Allen Harvey, of Portland, Oregon; one great grandson, George Raymond Harvey, of Clayton; and one niece, especially Mrs. Sarah E. Moon of Plainfield, who in her younger days made her home in the Harvey fmaily; and many othter relatives.
For a number of years her health has been on the decline and during the shadows of last Thursday night her spirit went to the eternal light everlasting where she will be with all the associates of her younger days.
The funeral services were conducted at her late home on Saturday afternoon, September 22, 1923, by the Rev. Allen W. McDaniel following which the remains were taken to Plainfield and placed in the Maple Lawn cemetery to await the great resurrection morn.
When a birth is exected in any family it is anticipated with great joy. So also said the angels in announcing the birth of Christ. When the time arrives that the marriage vows are to be exchanged how happy are those concerned and everything is expectancy. Did not the Redeemer grace and add to the pleasure of such an occasion? But when the death angel brings his summons calling one of us hence why should all be different? Plato in his most solemn moment said that the time of our departure should be the happiest moment of our life. And our Master informed His followers that they should not be depressed by His going hence.
Sarah Ann Shirley, the third of six children given to the watchcare and keeping of William Taylor and Mary (Worrell) Shirley, was born near Gosport, Indiana, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 1833 and departed this life at Clayton, Indiana, Thursday, Sept. 20, 1923, having journeyed on earth one month less than ninety years.
When quite young, being six years of age, she came with the family of her parents to Hendricks county, locating in Liberty township where she remained with the family until she was united in marriage Sunday, September 26, 1852 to Robert Nathan Harvey, Captain Crawford, of Danville, officiating. The young couple set up to housekeeping nearby on a farm and as a sideline the husband conducted a blacksmith shop. Hard labor was the lot of both but they prospered and in 1864 they purchased a forty acre farm north of Pecksburg, adding from time to time thereto and continued a successful career which was not checked until the frosts of many winters had admonished them to lay aside in a measure their worldly cares, however, reluctantly. This was hastened by a fire which consumed their country home with the greater part of its contents late on Saturday afternoon, December 28, 1912, following which they bought property in Clayton, but it was never "home" to them. Their minds were continually reverting back to the scenes of their younger days and the home they had carved out by the toil of their own hands.
The husband was converted under the preaching of the Rev. George W. Perry in a series of evangelical meetings he was conducted at Pecksburg early in 1861 and united with the Clayton Baptist church. Later, he was set apart and ordained as a minister of the Gospel and has served a majorty of the Baptist churches of the White Lick Baptist Association as Under Shepherd. He departed this life Friday, Jan. 27, 1922.
To this union were born three children: George Allen Harvey, who passed away on Sunday, April 29, 1922, in his sixty-eighth year; William Dayton Harvey, of Clayton, and Frank Lincoln Harvey born in 1860 but dying when eight months of age.
Early in life Mrs. Harvey confessed faith in Christ as her Savior and placed her membership with the Clayton Baptist church but in fact when the Amo Baptist church organized she and her husband became charter members and now she has been the last of them to cross the Great Divide and go into the Beyond. She also was the last survivor of the original Shirley family as were her husband of the Harvey family.
She is survived by one son, William D. Harvey; two grandchildsons[sic], Herbert S. Harvey of Clayton, and Frank Allen Harvey, of Portland, Oregon; one great grandson, George Raymond Harvey, of Clayton; and one niece, especially Mrs. Sarah E. Moon of Plainfield, who in her younger days made her home in the Harvey fmaily; and many othter relatives.
For a number of years her health has been on the decline and during the shadows of last Thursday night her spirit went to the eternal light everlasting where she will be with all the associates of her younger days.
The funeral services were conducted at her late home on Saturday afternoon, September 22, 1923, by the Rev. Allen W. McDaniel following which the remains were taken to Plainfield and placed in the Maple Lawn cemetery to await the great resurrection morn.
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