Rapides County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Chevalier, Sarah Frances Butter August 17, 1925
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source: The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana) Tuesday, 08 September 1925, page 6

MRS. SARAH F. CHEVALIER. - Mrs. Sarah Frances Chevalier passed from this life on 
August 18, 1925, at 4 o'clock p.m. She was before marriage Miss Sarah Frances 
Butter, daughter of J. H. and S. E. Butter, who passed from this life many years 
ago. She was born on June 25, 1855 - being 70 years, one month and 18 days of 
age at death. On Dec. 21, 1876, she was married to Joseph C. Chevalier, of 
Forest Hill, La. She joined the old Spring Hill Baptist church and was baptized 
August 28, 1869. Since then she has lived a devoted Christian life.

She leaves to mourn her death her husband and seven children - four sons and 
three daughters; also one adopted daughter, and fifteen grand-children, one 
brother, with a host of other relatives and friends.

She was born and has lived all her life in Rapides parish near the town of 
Forest Hill and leaves many friends and relatives throughout the parish.

Mother was sick and in bad health for several months before the end came. But 
she was never heard to complain - only about the trouble she was to her loved 
ones in her helpless condition. Everything that loving hands and medical aid 
could do was done, but to no avail. God had called her and she must answer the 
call. But until she became unconscious she had a cheerful greeting for all; her 
gentleness of manner and kind disposition won for her the friendship of all who 
knew her, and the memory of her unselfish devotion to family and friends will 
always linger to cheer them in their sad hour of affliction.

On the 19th day of August, as the evening sun was sinking in the west, she was 
laid to rest in the Butters cemetery near Forest Hill.

We wish to thank the friends for the many and beautiful floral offerings.

Dear father, brothers and sisters, a precious one from us has gone; a voice we 
loved is stilled; a place is vacant in our home which never can be filled. Soft 
and bright the stars are shining, over a lonely grave, where lies the one we 
loved so dearly.

Peaceful be thy rest, dear; 'tis sweet to breathe thy name. In life we loved you 
dearly - in death we do the same.

May the Lord help us to meet her in that fair city, where pain and sorrow will 
be no more, is the sincere prayer of a bereaved son. - FOSTER
  

   

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