Obituary of SARAH JANE GUEST GARNER, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  September 22, 1932, Thursday

Headline:  Mother of John N. Garner Dies After Illness of One Week

Detroit, Tex., Sept 20 - Mrs. Sarah Jane Garner, who ambition it was to live 
to see her eldest son, John Nence, elected vice-president of the United 
States, died at her old colonial home her today.  

Surrounded by her children, three sons and two daughters, Mrs. Garner slipped 
quietly away at 12:25 p.m. after showing remarkable vitality against a 
general toxic poisoning which sent her to bed more than a week ago.

Speaker Garner arrived here Sunday after a hurried trip from Washington where 
he had been formulating plans for the Democratic presidential campaign.

She recognized Mr. Garner only once after his arrival, and that was a faint 
"yes" in response to his question of, "Do you know me, ma?"

Funeral services were set for tomorrow, after which the body will be placed 
in the family vault in the Detroit Cemetery beside that of her husband, John 
Nance, Sr., who died in 1919, and two of her children, a son and a daughter.

Mrs. Garner spent her whole life in two Northeast Texas counties, Lamar and 
Red River.  She was born in a log cabin, May 20, 1851.

Her father was Mark Guest, who came with his father from Tennessee in 1821, 
travling up the Red River by steamboat and settling at a little village on 
its bank.

There he married a young woman by the name of Dickson, who family had settled 
at Clarksville.  They established their home at what was known as Blossom 
Prairie.

On a farm, Mrs. Garner grew to womanhood and like her mother, married a 
frontiersman, the Texas congressman's father.  The couple made their home in 
a log cabin near the present town of Blossom.

It was in this cabin that their distinguished son, John Nance Jr., was born.  
Six other children were born to the couple, four of them now living.  They 
are Jesse L. Garner, Jolly Garner, Mrs. John R. Wright, and Mrs. Maud Blair, 
all of whom live here.

It was announced that Mr. Garner would return to Washington immediately after 
his mother's funeral services tomorrow.