Obits: Castleman, Sharon, 1904  Larue County, Kentucky


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                     THE OBITUARY OF SARAH JANE (LARUE) CASTLEMAN 

		    From the LaRue County Herald, February 25, 1904

MRS. SARAH JANE CASTLEMAN 
AFTER LONG YEARS OF USEFULNESS ON EARTH ANSWERS THE SUMMON'S OF THE ANGELS Mrs.  
Sarah Jane Castleman died at her home near Silva, Monday afternoon, February 22, 1904,
at 5 o'clock, aged ninety-six.  She was the oldest person in LaRue County, as well as 
one of the best-known and generally loved women in this section of the State.  In her 
death is witnessed the closing scene of a beautiful and interesting drama, afid when 
the curtain dropped, audiences of friends from many sections saw the last act of a 
pretty life, a life which left a stream of sunshine from the little box cradle of 
ninety-six years ago to the open graveof yesterday.  Certainly her crown will be 
full-jeweled. Mrs.  Castleman was one of the most intelligent and interesting old ladies 
of our State.  During her life of generous length events have compiled histories, and 
with her life are associated many historic occurrences that are intimately associated 
with out State and County.As she sat these many years and watched the shifting scenes of
life's drama, the actors making their entrances and exits, playing the part of the hero 
or the villian, she fully realized the meaning of Shakespears assertion.She was thoroughly
imbued with and controlled by the noblest of Christian virtues, for nearly a century her 
companionship blessed those with whom she associated.  In the end. when death quietly drew
the drapery of her couch about her, It can be said that so noble and so unselfish had been
her blameless life that the world had profited by reason of her having been in it.Below is
given a brief sketch of the life of Mrs.  Castleman Few of the present generation realize 
what a period in the history of our Nation and Commonwealth is covered by the life of Mrs.
Sarah Jane Castleman.  She was born October 9, 1808, during the administration of Thomas 
Jefferson and about four years before our second war with England.  She remembered the 
Battle of New Orleans and saw veterans of Jackson when they returned to their homes it the
close of the War of 1812.  Her husband, Lewis Castleman, was a contractor and was employed 
in the construction of the canal around the falls of the Ohio in 1826, nearly two years 
after her marriage to him.  She was the daughter of Jacob LaRue, who was born in Virginia 
May 1, 1744, and was, therefore, only eight years younger than George Washington.  Her 
father came to Kentucky about the time the State was admitted to the Union, following his 
younger brother, John LaRue, who came here about the year 1780.