Smith - Sarah Ann - 1901
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 22 November 1901
Mrs. Sarah Ann Smith was born Oct. 13, 1817, near Cincinnati, Ohio. She was married to Elias M. Smith March 13, 1834, and moved to Montgomery County, Indiana, in August 1836. She died October 13, 1901.
She leaves five children, three sons and two daughters to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Smith was one of the first settlers. On their arrival in the new country they erected a cabin on a farm about seven miles southwest of Crawfordsville and began in the heavy timbered woods to prepare themselves a home. Here on this same farm she toiled and suffered for sixty five years, when the death angel came and she passed to that realm where toil and suffering are at an end.
Truly a good woman has fallen. About fifty years before her death, she joined the Freedom Baptist Church and lived a faithful Christian life until the time of her death. The last months of her life was spent in happy anticipation of the Christian’s reward beyond the dark river; and the nearer the end, the happier she became. She was a devoted wife, a good mother and an obliging and helpful neighbor. No one ever came to her for help and was turned away unaided.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence by Rev. L. F. Galey, and the remains were laid to rest by the side of her husband in the old Indian Creek Cemetery. -- s