STEUBRN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1899, page 1, column 6 & 7

SARAH REYNOLDS LONG, 10 Oct 1813 - 13 Mar 1899,(picture included in obit)

   The subject of this sketch was born near Shiloh, Richland 
county, Ohio, on the 10th day of October, 1813, and died at 
Alpine, in southern California, March 13, 1899.  In the summer 
of 1836, she with her family removed from Richland county to 
Steuben county, where she lived until 1878, when with her 
youngest son James she removed to Michigan, and from there in 
1882 to California where she has since resided with her two 
sons, Hugh D., James H. and her daughter, Mrs. Callie Albee, 
formerly of Pleasant Lake.  Concerning the life of this 
gentle, saintly, devoted christian woman, but little can be 
said in the limited space of an obituary that could do 
adequate justice to so noble a character.  Let it suffice to 
say that her whole life was a vivid illustration of loving 
obedience to the words of her Divine Master, "He that loseth 
his life for my sake shall find it."  Sarah Long's eighty-five 
years of life was a daily and hourly losing of self in 
faithful service and self-sacrifice for the good of her 
children and friends-but who found it again-rich, full and 
beautiful, in the love and respect of all who ever knew her 
through a long and useful life.  It was eminently fitting that 
the winter of her life, with all its weariness, pain and 
suffering should suddenly change to immortal spring time, in 
the full glory of March, the month of flowers in her 
California home, where valley, mesa and mountain are now 
clothed with brightness and beauty.  Our mother is now an 
immortal flower, transplanted to the banks of the River of 
Life.  The human flower that gave to us so much of brightness 
and the perfume of love, even amid the privations, trials and 
limitations of this earthly life, will reach its full fruition 
and glory in the life beyond the grave.

Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net