Sadler - Rebecca Hipes
Source: November 1921, Newspaper unknown
Rebecca Hipes was born in Ohio, December 12, 1832. While a small child she moved with her parents to Crawfordsville, Indiana, where she grew to womanhood. Here, November 10, 1850, she was united in marriage with John Sadler. Together they came to Lime Springs, Iowa, in 1855 and settled on a farm north of town, where they lived for 40 years. The remainder of their married life was spent in Kidde County, Missouri, McIntire, Iowa, and Rose Creek, Taopi, and Austin, Minnesota. At the latter place in the spring of 1919, her husband, at the age of 90 years, preceded her to the great beyond, after nearly 69 years of married life together. To this union were born nine children, eight of whom grew to maturity, one dying in infancy. Three other children, Hester Ogg, Sarah Beughley, and Samuel Sadler, preceded her in death. There remains to mourn her loss five children: John Sadler of Spring Valley, Minnesota; Mattie Winsor and George Sadler of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mary Martin, of Seattle, Washington; and Madison Sadler of Austin, Minnesota; also 22 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. In early womanhood she united with the Brethren church, of which she was a devoted member the remainder of her life. She died November 8, 1921, at the home of her oldest son, John Sadler, of Spring Valley, Minnesota, where she has resided for nearly three years, at the age of 88 years, 10 months and 26 days. Funeral services were held November 10, 1921, at 12:00 pm from her late home and 2:00 pm from the Brethren Church of Greenleafton, Minnesota, and she was laid to rest in the Brethren cemetery beside her husband on the 71st anniversary of their wedding day.