Black Hawk-Benton-Tama County IA Archives Obituaries.....Kenaston, Sarah Jane Pierce November 8, 1911
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Vinton Eagle, 1911
  Mrs. S. B. Kenaston died at her home in West Dysart Wednesday morning, Nov. 
8 at 1 o'clock.  Her death was expected.  Last May, Mrs. Kenston was stricken 
with the disease which terminated fatally.  Sarah Jane Pierce was born at 
Jefferson Grove, Ill., Jane Pierce was born Jeffeson Grove, Ill, January 24, 
1845.  On August 17, 1865, she was united in marriage to Steven B. Kenaston, 
at Aregan, Ill.  They lived at Rochelle, Ill., until 1879, when they removed 
to Nebraska, and settled upon a lived there 23 years, when they sold out and 
removed ro Dysart in September 1902.  Mrs. Kenaston was a kind neighbor, a 
firm friend, a model wife and Christian woman.  Besides her husband, deceased 
leaves three brothers and one sister to mourn her death.  The brothers are 
John Pierce, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Harmon Pierce, Hayes, Kansas and the only 
sister, Mrs. Matilda A. Johnson, of Dysart.  The funeral was held at the home 
Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Hayward, of the M.E. church.  Interment in 
the Dysart cemetery.

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