Obit for PHILLIPS, Sarah Bunker (b.1832 d.1928), Martin Co., MN

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From a Fairmont newspaper

Friday, June 22, 1928



Mrs. Phillips, Counties Oldest Woman, is Called



Respected Westford Resident Passes Away at 96---Resident of Minnesota Since 

1864



Mrs. Sarah Bunker Phillips, Martin County's oldest woman, died early today 

at the home of her son, Oscar Phillips in Westford.  She would have been 96 

years old, June 28.

Until recently, Mrs. Phillips had been in wonderful health for a person of 

her years, assisting with the housework daily and as active and keenly 

interested in life as a person of half her age. Death came from the natural 

dissolution that occurs when the body wears out.

Sarah Bunker was born at Bolton, Quebec, June 28, 1832.  As a child she 

moved to Vermont where she was married to Raymond Bennett.  They were the 

parents of three children.  Mr. Bennett died about 1860.

With her parents and the H. H. Clemons and Ephriam Clemons families she came 

to Minneapolis in 1864.  The journey was made by rail to Owatonna, which was 

then the end of the railroad.  The rest of the journey to Shelbyville, Blue 

Earth county, was made by ox team.

At Shelbyville, once an historic settlement in this part of the state, now 

only a memory, she was married Jan. 13, 1870, to James Phillips.  They had 

two sons, Oscar of Truman and John of Minneapolis.  There is also a 

stepdaughter, Mrs. Shoutes of Amboy, who gave the aged woman a daughter's 

tender care in her last illness.

The funeral will be held at the Church of Christ, Truman, Thursday.



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