SAWTELLE. --- At Hammond, La., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 1892, at 12:45 o'clock a.m., Mrs. Mary Sawtelle, aged seventy-four years and ten months.
Fort Madison, Ia., papers please copy.
Thus reads an announcement in the New Orleans Times-Democrat of the 28th.
Mrs. Sawetelle was a daughter of the late Judge Whittaker, a former resident who was regarded as a local patriarch. During his declining years Mrs. Sawtelle gave him her care and constant attention. Since his death she lived alone on Front street until stricken with illness when, only a few months ago, her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Muncy, of Hammond, La., came to her and took her south. It was hoped that the change might benefit her; but the feebleness of age was not to be lessened by a new climate and new surroundings, so death came to relieve a weary soul of earthly cares.
Mrs. Sawtelle was well known to many Fort Madisonians and her face was ever among those that graced the "Golden Circle" on reunion days of Old Settlers.
She leaves two daughters, a Mrs. Hays of this county and Mrs. Muncy, of Hammond, Louisiana.
SAWTELLE. --- At Hammond, La., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 1892, at 12:45 o'clock a.m., Mrs. Mary Sawtelle, aged seventy-four years and ten months.
Fort Madison, Ia., papers please copy.
Thus reads an announcement in the New Orleans Times-Democrat of the 28th.
Mrs. Sawetelle was a daughter of the late Judge Whittaker, a former resident who was regarded as a local patriarch. During his declining years Mrs. Sawtelle gave him her care and constant attention. Since his death she lived alone on Front street until stricken with illness when, only a few months ago, her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Muncy, of Hammond, La., came to her and took her south. It was hoped that the change might benefit her; but the feebleness of age was not to be lessened by a new climate and new surroundings, so death came to relieve a weary soul of earthly cares.
Mrs. Sawtelle was well known to many Fort Madisonians and her face was ever among those that graced the "Golden Circle" on reunion days of Old Settlers.
She leaves two daughters, a Mrs. Hays of this county and Mrs. Muncy, of Hammond, Louisiana.
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