From the Bushnell Record:
Mrs. N. P. Sanford died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ed. Barnes of this city, on Wednesday evening of last week, at the ripe old age of nearly ninety-one years. She had as a result of her age been somewhat feeble for some time, and a fortnight before her death she caught a severe cold, as a result of which her strength gradually failed, until her lamp of life went out, peacefully and quietly, as befitted the close of the earnest, hopeful, gentle christian life she had lived through nearly a century.
Mrs. Sanford’s maiden name was Bethiah Barker, and she was born in Tompkins county, New York, in April, 1804. She was married to N. P. Sanford in the same county in 1822, and they came to this state and located on a farm near Virgil in 1846. Here they remained until the close of the war, when they removed to Prairie City, where Mr. Sanford died in 1871, at the age of seventy-seven. Here Mrs. Sanford lived until her son, L. B. Sanford, removed to Bushnell, when she made her home with him for three years, afterward taking up her abode with Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Sanford was the mother of ten children, five of whom are living. These are Mrs. W. F. Barnes of Monmouth, Mrs. T. L. Magee of San Diego, Cal., Mrs. T. L. Kendrick of Eureka, Kan., B. F. Sanford of Eureka, Kan., and L. B. Sanford of Minneapolis. Mrs. Sanford had living at the time of her death thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, the recent birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arter of Walnut Grove allowing her to see representatives of five generations of her family alive before she was called to her reward.
Mrs. Sanford was a woman of high christian character, and had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from her youth up. She was beloved of all who knew her, and her death is mourned as that of a mother by many outside the family.
The funeral was on Friday. There was a service at the house, conducted by Elder M. V. Crumbaker, and the remains were taken to the Prairie City cemetery, where they were tenderly laid to rest beside those of the husband gone before.
Mrs. N. P. Sanford died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ed. Barnes of this city, on Wednesday evening of last week, at the ripe old age of nearly ninety-one years. She had as a result of her age been somewhat feeble for some time, and a fortnight before her death she caught a severe cold, as a result of which her strength gradually failed, until her lamp of life went out, peacefully and quietly, as befitted the close of the earnest, hopeful, gentle christian life she had lived through nearly a century.
Mrs. Sanford’s maiden name was Bethiah Barker, and she was born in Tompkins county, New York, in April, 1804. She was married to N. P. Sanford in the same county in 1822, and they came to this state and located on a farm near Virgil in 1846. Here they remained until the close of the war, when they removed to Prairie City, where Mr. Sanford died in 1871, at the age of seventy-seven. Here Mrs. Sanford lived until her son, L. B. Sanford, removed to Bushnell, when she made her home with him for three years, afterward taking up her abode with Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Sanford was the mother of ten children, five of whom are living. These are Mrs. W. F. Barnes of Monmouth, Mrs. T. L. Magee of San Diego, Cal., Mrs. T. L. Kendrick of Eureka, Kan., B. F. Sanford of Eureka, Kan., and L. B. Sanford of Minneapolis. Mrs. Sanford had living at the time of her death thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, the recent birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arter of Walnut Grove allowing her to see representatives of five generations of her family alive before she was called to her reward.
Mrs. Sanford was a woman of high christian character, and had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from her youth up. She was beloved of all who knew her, and her death is mourned as that of a mother by many outside the family.
The funeral was on Friday. There was a service at the house, conducted by Elder M. V. Crumbaker, and the remains were taken to the Prairie City cemetery, where they were tenderly laid to rest beside those of the husband gone before.
From the Bushnell Record:
Mrs. N. P. Sanford died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ed. Barnes of this city, on Wednesday evening of last week, at the ripe old age of nearly ninety-one years. She had as a result of her age been somewhat feeble for some time, and a fortnight before her death she caught a severe cold, as a result of which her strength gradually failed, until her lamp of life went out, peacefully and quietly, as befitted the close of the earnest, hopeful, gentle christian life she had lived through nearly a century.
Mrs. Sanford’s maiden name was Bethiah Barker, and she was born in Tompkins county, New York, in April, 1804. She was married to N. P. Sanford in the same county in 1822, and they came to this state and located on a farm near Virgil in 1846. Here they remained until the close of the war, when they removed to Prairie City, where Mr. Sanford died in 1871, at the age of seventy-seven. Here Mrs. Sanford lived until her son, L. B. Sanford, removed to Bushnell, when she made her home with him for three years, afterward taking up her abode with Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Sanford was the mother of ten children, five of whom are living. These are Mrs. W. F. Barnes of Monmouth, Mrs. T. L. Magee of San Diego, Cal., Mrs. T. L. Kendrick of Eureka, Kan., B. F. Sanford of Eureka, Kan., and L. B. Sanford of Minneapolis. Mrs. Sanford had living at the time of her death thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, the recent birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arter of Walnut Grove allowing her to see representatives of five generations of her family alive before she was called to her reward.
Mrs. Sanford was a woman of high christian character, and had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from her youth up. She was beloved of all who knew her, and her death is mourned as that of a mother by many outside the family.
The funeral was on Friday. There was a service at the house, conducted by Elder M. V. Crumbaker, and the remains were taken to the Prairie City cemetery, where they were tenderly laid to rest beside those of the husband gone before.
Mrs. N. P. Sanford died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ed. Barnes of this city, on Wednesday evening of last week, at the ripe old age of nearly ninety-one years. She had as a result of her age been somewhat feeble for some time, and a fortnight before her death she caught a severe cold, as a result of which her strength gradually failed, until her lamp of life went out, peacefully and quietly, as befitted the close of the earnest, hopeful, gentle christian life she had lived through nearly a century.
Mrs. Sanford’s maiden name was Bethiah Barker, and she was born in Tompkins county, New York, in April, 1804. She was married to N. P. Sanford in the same county in 1822, and they came to this state and located on a farm near Virgil in 1846. Here they remained until the close of the war, when they removed to Prairie City, where Mr. Sanford died in 1871, at the age of seventy-seven. Here Mrs. Sanford lived until her son, L. B. Sanford, removed to Bushnell, when she made her home with him for three years, afterward taking up her abode with Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Sanford was the mother of ten children, five of whom are living. These are Mrs. W. F. Barnes of Monmouth, Mrs. T. L. Magee of San Diego, Cal., Mrs. T. L. Kendrick of Eureka, Kan., B. F. Sanford of Eureka, Kan., and L. B. Sanford of Minneapolis. Mrs. Sanford had living at the time of her death thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, the recent birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arter of Walnut Grove allowing her to see representatives of five generations of her family alive before she was called to her reward.
Mrs. Sanford was a woman of high christian character, and had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from her youth up. She was beloved of all who knew her, and her death is mourned as that of a mother by many outside the family.
The funeral was on Friday. There was a service at the house, conducted by Elder M. V. Crumbaker, and the remains were taken to the Prairie City cemetery, where they were tenderly laid to rest beside those of the husband gone before.
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