Sarah's birth year is uncertain: 1900 census gives Mar 1872, marriage records give age 19 (May 1890 license) and age 36 (Sep 1906).
Her parent's names are given as Philip Sweet and Margaret A. Abbe on her death certificate.
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Mrs. Sarah Bechtel, 60, wife of Aaron Bechtel, 315 Linton Street, died Thursday at the Women's Hospital. Sarah Sweet was born March 8, 1870, near Sarnia, Ont. and in 1878 came to Huron County with her parents settling near Elkton. In 1890 she was married to Menno Gabel who died July 18, 1904. In 1906 she was married to Mr. Bechtel. They came to Saginaw in 1907. She attended the Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband and seven children, Mrs. M. T. Van Benschoten, Miss Leone Bechtel, Saginaw, Mrs. Louis Martin and Charles, Cecil, and Menno Gabel, Kalamazoo, and Jack Gabel, Pittsburgh, PA, her mother, Mrs. Henry Ibberston, Owendale, one brother and one sister, Frank Sweet, Evart and Mrs. George Doty, Lagrange, Ind., seven step children and nine grandchildren. The....will take place at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at her home. Rev. John Paul P....officiated at burial will be....
Obituary Record
Index: SAGINAW DAILY NEWS
Friday, August 22, 1930 (22)
UPDATES: Apr 2019, changed last name from "Gabel-Bechtel" to "Bechtel", second husband's name. Jul 2021, linked to parents.
Sarah's birth year is uncertain: 1900 census gives Mar 1872, marriage records give age 19 (May 1890 license) and age 36 (Sep 1906).
Her parent's names are given as Philip Sweet and Margaret A. Abbe on her death certificate.
http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16317coll1/id/453020
Mrs. Sarah Bechtel, 60, wife of Aaron Bechtel, 315 Linton Street, died Thursday at the Women's Hospital. Sarah Sweet was born March 8, 1870, near Sarnia, Ont. and in 1878 came to Huron County with her parents settling near Elkton. In 1890 she was married to Menno Gabel who died July 18, 1904. In 1906 she was married to Mr. Bechtel. They came to Saginaw in 1907. She attended the Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband and seven children, Mrs. M. T. Van Benschoten, Miss Leone Bechtel, Saginaw, Mrs. Louis Martin and Charles, Cecil, and Menno Gabel, Kalamazoo, and Jack Gabel, Pittsburgh, PA, her mother, Mrs. Henry Ibberston, Owendale, one brother and one sister, Frank Sweet, Evart and Mrs. George Doty, Lagrange, Ind., seven step children and nine grandchildren. The....will take place at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at her home. Rev. John Paul P....officiated at burial will be....
Obituary Record
Index: SAGINAW DAILY NEWS
Friday, August 22, 1930 (22)
UPDATES: Apr 2019, changed last name from "Gabel-Bechtel" to "Bechtel", second husband's name. Jul 2021, linked to parents.
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