Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....Sarah Tait Sterling October 5 1904
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, October 20, 1904

  Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. A. Boynton, at Catherine, 
Ala., on Wednesday a. m. Oct. 5th, 1904.
  Mrs. Sarah Tait Sterling, age 71 years, 1 month and 14 days.
  Being a member of a prominent family and a lady of wide 
acquaintance, it is but proper that more than a simple notice of her
death be given.
  Mrs. Sterling was the only and last surviving child of Hon. A. B. 
Cooper, one of the prominent Pioneers and potent factors in shaping 
the early history, and reconstruction period of the State of Alabama.
  She was born at Mendham, Morris Co., New Jersey, August 21st, 1833. 
Married to Thos. F. Sterling, from near Shubuta, Miss., Oct. 7th, 
1852. Left a widow, Nov. 22nd, 1869, and died Oct. 5th, 1904.
  Her life was one of more than the average of pleasures and trials, 
that usually fall to the lot of Mankind. When only about 15 years of 
age, her mother died, leaving a large family of children, and she 
being the eldest, the care and responsibility of raising them devolved 
upon her. In 1851 her father married the widow of Hon. John G. Creagh 
and moved to Wilcox Co., Ala., to live, soon after which the subject 
of our sketch married Thos. S. Sterling, son of Hon Thos. S. Sterling,
a prominent and influential citizen of cast Miss., and went there to 
live. There she had a happy and prosperous home and eight children 
blessed their union. She continued to live there until after the close
of the Civil War in 1865 or 66, when owing to the vicissitudes of the
war, they lost their home and moved to the "Rocks" in Clarke Co., Ala.
There she buried two of her children and then her husband, when her 
father having been left again a widower, she moved to his home near 
Boiling Springs, Ala., Dec. 1869, and cared for him the remainder of 
his days, July 1887. A few years afterwards she moved to Catherine to
live with her only son, Thos S. Sterling, and to be near her other 
children, where she has lived until some three months since, when she
became so feeble and helpless, it was necessary for her to go live with
her daughter. She having had about three years ago, a slight stroke of
Paralysis and another last spring.
  She leaves surviving her, four children, Mrs. M. A. Boynton, Mrs. 
Sallie A. Murphy, and Thos S. Sterling of Catherine, Ala., and Mrs. 
Mattie E. Harris of Horne, Miss, and nine grand children.
  Mrs. Sterling was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church,
and dearly loved her Church and Sabbath School, and as long as health 
permitted, was faithful in her attendance upon both. She had a happy 
faculty of interesting the "Little Ones" and the infant class in 
sunday school, was always her class.
  A dutiful daughter, a faithful and true wife, an affectionate and 
indulgent mother, a good christian has gone to her reward.
  "And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, write. Blessed are 
the dead which die in the Lord, from hence forth. Yea, saith the 
spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow 
them." 


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