Obit of Mrs. Sarah Peters, 1926, Winn Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the January 29, 1926 Winnfield News-American


Mrs. Sarah Peters Dies Monday After Illness Of Months

One of the Pioneer Mothers of Winn Parish dies at the home of daughter at Zion
Hill


Passing almost seven years beyond her three score year and ten mark Mrs. Sarah
Wallace Peters, wife of the late W. S. Peters, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. S. T. Fox at Zion Hill Monday morning at three thirty o'clock,
following an illness of many months.

Mrs. Peters was born in Lawrence County Mississippi, February 14th, 1849 and
was the eldest of a large family of children.  Her father James D. Wallace
moved her shortly before the Civil War and during the war was in service of
the Confederate army participating in the battle of Gettysburg.

In 1871 she was married to W. S. Peters, to which union nine children were
born, eight of whom are living.

She was a loyal and faithful member of the Baptist faith, her membership being
with the Zion Hill Church.  She was one of those mothers that lived, worked,
and loved in the pioneer days and gave to her community her very best making
it safe for herself and her children.

She was a sister to the late J. T. Wallace, whose name is indelibily written
in the history of this parish, Mrs. Cleo Wade who resides in Alexandria and
Mrs. Sam Newsom of Hickory Valley Community.

Her children surviving her are: Mrs. W. L. Jordan and Mrs. S. T. Fox of Zion
Hill, Mrs. P.  O. Moffett of Olla, J. S. Peters and A. S. Peters of
Shreveport, W. H. Peters and I. N. Peters of Winnfield and B. A. Peters of
Homer.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Alwin Stokes and she was laid to rest
in the Zion Hill cemetery Tuesday morning at eleven amid a host of sorrowing
relatives and friends.  


(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)