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Sarah Allen

Birth
Death
22 Jan 1931 (aged 79–80)
Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Buffalo Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Aged Spinster Sisters Found Dead In Home
Cassie and Sara Allen, Aged About 80 Years, Both Stricken in Old Homestead Home At Washington: Found Last Night
One Died While Caring For Other

Ending lives of loneliness and sisterly car, death today claimed two aged spinsters sisters, both more than 80 years old. Their bodies were found by a clerk who made deliveries of groceries to their isolated farm, near Washington.
Cassie and Sara Allen, had lived, recluses, on their small farm for more than 80 years. And as they died to they lived. The story of their devotion for each other, which in life meant untiring care for one another, was intensified by the details, as much as they can be gathered, of the manner of death.
Although they died alone, the coroner's report revealed that, apparently, one sister became ill, necessitating treatment by the other. No doctor was called. It was while administering to her needs, the coroner's report disclosed, that the other aged woman was stricken. Then, from the way the tragedy of loneliness was reconstructed, the sister who first became ill, died from lack of care and nourishment.
Further details of their death were not available. They had been accustomed to isolation from society for so long that no one was near when the last act of their unusual, self-sacrificing lives was enacted.
Aged Spinster Sisters Found Dead In Home
Cassie and Sara Allen, Aged About 80 Years, Both Stricken in Old Homestead Home At Washington: Found Last Night
One Died While Caring For Other

Ending lives of loneliness and sisterly car, death today claimed two aged spinsters sisters, both more than 80 years old. Their bodies were found by a clerk who made deliveries of groceries to their isolated farm, near Washington.
Cassie and Sara Allen, had lived, recluses, on their small farm for more than 80 years. And as they died to they lived. The story of their devotion for each other, which in life meant untiring care for one another, was intensified by the details, as much as they can be gathered, of the manner of death.
Although they died alone, the coroner's report revealed that, apparently, one sister became ill, necessitating treatment by the other. No doctor was called. It was while administering to her needs, the coroner's report disclosed, that the other aged woman was stricken. Then, from the way the tragedy of loneliness was reconstructed, the sister who first became ill, died from lack of care and nourishment.
Further details of their death were not available. They had been accustomed to isolation from society for so long that no one was near when the last act of their unusual, self-sacrificing lives was enacted.

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  • Created by: Angel Searcher
  • Added: Dec 3, 2020
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219283940/sarah-allen: accessed ), memorial page for Sarah Allen (1851–22 Jan 1931), Find a Grave Memorial ID 219283940, citing North Buffalo Presbyterian Cemetery, Buffalo Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Angel Searcher (contributor 47731712).