Sarah was the daughter of John Campe and Sarah Girard who were both born in France.
In Memoriam.
Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger
From the
Milan Standard, Milan, Missouri,
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1903
(Thanks to Karen Scott,
Grand Junction, CO
and Jaunita Hall, Milan, MO)
On Tuesday evening, September 22, just as the sun of day sank into the arms of restful night, death came and claimed a wife and mother in our city. For three years she had patiently suffered while disease preyed upon her body, but at last unable longer to be the burden of pain she sank into death's cold embrace and her spirit wended its way to the God who gave it, and a devoted husband and loving children and grand children mourn the loss of one who had won their heart's deepest affection.
The wife and mother who thus passed away was Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger, wife of Jefferson Swanger. She was born in Huntington County, Penn., April 30th, 1833. She was one of a family of nine children, eight sisters and one brother. Of this number only the brother, John Camp, who now lives at Milroy, Pa., and sister, Mrs. Martha Working, living at Abilene, Kas., survive. Her early life was spent in and near Milroy, Pa., where on Jan'y 23, 1857, she was united in marriage to Jefferson Swanger. Of this union eight children were born six of whom still live.
In 1859 the husband and wife moved to Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri, where they resided until her death. In all those years of wedded life the wife and mother devoted herself to the welfare of her family, and no husband was ever blest with a truer companion nor children ever loved with a deeper, more unselfish love. In her daily walk she sought not for the world's applause -- home was her citadel and duty her guiding star. She was kind to all, and won the love of all who knew her, and when she died friends who had felt her kindly sympathy and knew her motherly virtues mourned because she had blest them in life.
Hers was a Christian life. She trusted implicitly in the promises of God, obeyed his admonitions and died in the trumps of a christian's faith.
Her funeral was conducted from the family residence at 2:30 pm Thursday, the 24th. The funeral service were led by Rev. J. S. Howard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the sermon was preached by Rev. W. F. Burris, of Macon, Mo., presiding elder of the Hannibal district, from the test: "I go to prepare a place." The sermon was a beautiful and eloquent portrayal of the Heaven of the Christian and was pronounced one of the best ever hear on like occasion in our city. Appropriate music was rendered by a double quartet of singers after which she tenderly borne to Oakwood cemetery where in her windowless palace of rest she awaits the resurrection.
"God's will, not ours be done." Her pure life, her sacrifice, her love are a monument of beauty to which those who loved her so may ever look and remember that she was what God designed motherhood to be.
In Memoriam.
Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger
From the
Milan Standard, Milan, Missouri,
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1903
(Thanks to Karen Scott,
Grand Junction, CO
and Jaunita Hall, Milan, MO)
On Tuesday evening, September 22, just as the sun of day sank into the arms of restful night, death came and claimed a wife and mother in our city. For three years she had patiently suffered while disease preyed upon her body, but at last unable longer to be the burden of pain she sank into death's cold embrace and her spirit wended its way to the God who gave it, and a devoted husband and loving children and grand children mourn the loss of one who had won their heart's deepest affection.
The wife and mother who thus passed away was Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger, wife of Jefferson Swanger. She was born in Huntington County, Penn., April 30th, 1833. She was one of a family of nine children, eight sisters and one brother. Of this number only the brother, John Camp, who now lives at Milroy, Pa., and sister, Mrs. Martha Working, living at Abilene, Kas., survive. Her early life was spent in and near Milroy, Pa., where on Jan'y 23, 1857, she was united in marriage to Jefferson Swanger. Of this union eight children were born six of whom still live.
In 1859 the husband and wife moved to Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri, where they resided until her death. In all those years of wedded life the wife and mother devoted herself to the welfare of her family, and no husband was ever blest with a truer companion nor children ever loved with a deeper, more unselfish love. In her daily walk she sought not for the world's applause -- home was her citadel and duty her guiding star. She was kind to all, and won the love of all who knew her, and when she died friends who had felt her kindly sympathy and knew her motherly virtues mourned because she had blest them in life.
Hers was a Christian life. She trusted implicitly in the promises of God, obeyed his admonitions and died in the trumps of a christian's faith.
Her funeral was conducted from the family residence at 2:30 pm Thursday, the 24th. The funeral service were led by Rev. J. S. Howard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the sermon was preached by Rev. W. F. Burris, of Macon, Mo., presiding elder of the Hannibal district, from the test: "I go to prepare a place." The sermon was a beautiful and eloquent portrayal of the Heaven of the Christian and was pronounced one of the best ever hear on like occasion in our city. Appropriate music was rendered by a double quartet of singers after which she tenderly borne to Oakwood cemetery where in her windowless palace of rest she awaits the resurrection.
"God's will, not ours be done." Her pure life, her sacrifice, her love are a monument of beauty to which those who loved her so may ever look and remember that she was what God designed motherhood to be.
Sarah was the daughter of John Campe and Sarah Girard who were both born in France.
In Memoriam.
Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger
From the
Milan Standard, Milan, Missouri,
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1903
(Thanks to Karen Scott,
Grand Junction, CO
and Jaunita Hall, Milan, MO)
On Tuesday evening, September 22, just as the sun of day sank into the arms of restful night, death came and claimed a wife and mother in our city. For three years she had patiently suffered while disease preyed upon her body, but at last unable longer to be the burden of pain she sank into death's cold embrace and her spirit wended its way to the God who gave it, and a devoted husband and loving children and grand children mourn the loss of one who had won their heart's deepest affection.
The wife and mother who thus passed away was Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger, wife of Jefferson Swanger. She was born in Huntington County, Penn., April 30th, 1833. She was one of a family of nine children, eight sisters and one brother. Of this number only the brother, John Camp, who now lives at Milroy, Pa., and sister, Mrs. Martha Working, living at Abilene, Kas., survive. Her early life was spent in and near Milroy, Pa., where on Jan'y 23, 1857, she was united in marriage to Jefferson Swanger. Of this union eight children were born six of whom still live.
In 1859 the husband and wife moved to Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri, where they resided until her death. In all those years of wedded life the wife and mother devoted herself to the welfare of her family, and no husband was ever blest with a truer companion nor children ever loved with a deeper, more unselfish love. In her daily walk she sought not for the world's applause -- home was her citadel and duty her guiding star. She was kind to all, and won the love of all who knew her, and when she died friends who had felt her kindly sympathy and knew her motherly virtues mourned because she had blest them in life.
Hers was a Christian life. She trusted implicitly in the promises of God, obeyed his admonitions and died in the trumps of a christian's faith.
Her funeral was conducted from the family residence at 2:30 pm Thursday, the 24th. The funeral service were led by Rev. J. S. Howard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the sermon was preached by Rev. W. F. Burris, of Macon, Mo., presiding elder of the Hannibal district, from the test: "I go to prepare a place." The sermon was a beautiful and eloquent portrayal of the Heaven of the Christian and was pronounced one of the best ever hear on like occasion in our city. Appropriate music was rendered by a double quartet of singers after which she tenderly borne to Oakwood cemetery where in her windowless palace of rest she awaits the resurrection.
"God's will, not ours be done." Her pure life, her sacrifice, her love are a monument of beauty to which those who loved her so may ever look and remember that she was what God designed motherhood to be.
In Memoriam.
Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger
From the
Milan Standard, Milan, Missouri,
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1903
(Thanks to Karen Scott,
Grand Junction, CO
and Jaunita Hall, Milan, MO)
On Tuesday evening, September 22, just as the sun of day sank into the arms of restful night, death came and claimed a wife and mother in our city. For three years she had patiently suffered while disease preyed upon her body, but at last unable longer to be the burden of pain she sank into death's cold embrace and her spirit wended its way to the God who gave it, and a devoted husband and loving children and grand children mourn the loss of one who had won their heart's deepest affection.
The wife and mother who thus passed away was Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger, wife of Jefferson Swanger. She was born in Huntington County, Penn., April 30th, 1833. She was one of a family of nine children, eight sisters and one brother. Of this number only the brother, John Camp, who now lives at Milroy, Pa., and sister, Mrs. Martha Working, living at Abilene, Kas., survive. Her early life was spent in and near Milroy, Pa., where on Jan'y 23, 1857, she was united in marriage to Jefferson Swanger. Of this union eight children were born six of whom still live.
In 1859 the husband and wife moved to Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri, where they resided until her death. In all those years of wedded life the wife and mother devoted herself to the welfare of her family, and no husband was ever blest with a truer companion nor children ever loved with a deeper, more unselfish love. In her daily walk she sought not for the world's applause -- home was her citadel and duty her guiding star. She was kind to all, and won the love of all who knew her, and when she died friends who had felt her kindly sympathy and knew her motherly virtues mourned because she had blest them in life.
Hers was a Christian life. She trusted implicitly in the promises of God, obeyed his admonitions and died in the trumps of a christian's faith.
Her funeral was conducted from the family residence at 2:30 pm Thursday, the 24th. The funeral service were led by Rev. J. S. Howard, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the sermon was preached by Rev. W. F. Burris, of Macon, Mo., presiding elder of the Hannibal district, from the test: "I go to prepare a place." The sermon was a beautiful and eloquent portrayal of the Heaven of the Christian and was pronounced one of the best ever hear on like occasion in our city. Appropriate music was rendered by a double quartet of singers after which she tenderly borne to Oakwood cemetery where in her windowless palace of rest she awaits the resurrection.
"God's will, not ours be done." Her pure life, her sacrifice, her love are a monument of beauty to which those who loved her so may ever look and remember that she was what God designed motherhood to be.
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