Richland County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Prewitt, Sarah Emma February 16 1929



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Richland Beacon News
Obituary of Sarah Emma Prewitt Boies of Richland Parish
As published in the Richland Beacon News, 1929
Submitted for UsGenWeb by Carolyn Boies, June 29, 2004


MRS. S. E. Boies Dies

	Mrs. Sarah Emma Boies, aged 80 years, one of the pioneer citizens of
Richland parish, died at the home of her son, Mr. J. F. Boies, in Mangham
on last Saturday night.  The interment was in the old Prewitt cemetery on 
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.  Eight children survive, four sons,
Messrs. William, E.A., Jr., R. L. and J. F. Boies, and four daughters,
Mrs. Nannie Duff, Mrs. Clara Hewitt, Mrs. Alice Brunson, and Mrs. Bertha
Choat, all residents of Richland parish, the home of their nativity.
This good lady is also survived by thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-
three great-grandchildren.
	Mrs. Boies was Miss Sarah Emma Prewitt before her marriage to the late
lamented E. A. Boies Sr., who preceded her to the grave about six years
ago.  She was born in Noxubee County, Miss., on February 11, 1849.  She
came to Richland parish with her parents at the age of five years, and
has made her home here ever since.  Sixty-one years ago she was married
to Mr. E. A. Boies, and was the mother of fourteen children, eight of
whom survive her.
	In the death of this Christian mother another life of love is now a
blessed memory.  She was the pure and consecrated wife, the sincere
friend, the devoted and affectionate mother, who with tender faithfulness
discharged all the duties of a noble life.  Coming to Richland and being
reared to young womanhood when much of this fertile section was but a 
vast wilderness, she has wrought, like other early settlers, for the 
upbuilding and betterment of the country, and much of that which blesses
our lives now, is due to her long years of devoted, Christian labor.  She
reared a large family of honest, sturdy men, and estimable women who have
remained to make their homes where their mother and father chose to live
and build so well.  The godliness, the charity and the generosity of this 
lady of the old school of the South will be claimed in sacred memory as a
priceless legacy by her children and their children through all the 
years.  
	The Beacon-News joins in the many expressions of sympathy tendered to
The bereaved family.



Note: Parents: James N. Prewitt and Rebecca Lucy Boughton


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