Obit for HYSLOP, Sadie (Phelps) (b.1861 d.1939), Murray Co., MN
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"Pioneer Woman Dies Following Stroke Last May - Mrs. John Hyslop Enters 
Celestial Home After Six Months Illness - 

In the death of Mrs. John Hyslop of Fulda, which occurred early Monday 
morning, her family lost a beloved wife and mother, her church a tireless 
worker and her community one of its staunchest advocates for civic and 
community improvement.

For the past two weeks her condition has been critical, but family and 
friends hoped the weakness was only temporary. A Wiser Hand, knowing her 
intense dislike for a life of invalidism and inactivity made it possible 
for her to gently sleep away and waken in her celestial home. Early in 
May she suffered a slight stroke, which confined her to her bed for several 
weeks; later she was able for some months to be about the house and even 
go for short drives. Light strokes which followed affected her ability to 
read, to write, and to crochet, all of which she loved to do. The devotion
of her family and those about her helped immeasurable to pass what for her 
would have been days of interminable inactivity. She lapsed into a coma 
late Saturday afternoon and passed away at 5 a.m. on Monday.

Sadie Phelps was born at Marion, Minn., on December 27, 1861. She was 
educated in the schools of that community and took a four-year course at 
Winona Normal school to prepare herself for teaching. She taught in the 
schools of Olmstead and Rice counties for several years.

On March 17, 1887, she was married to John Hyslop at Chester, Minn. Shortly 
after their marriage they moved to Currie, where they lived for a short time. 
In the fall of 1880 they went to Fulda, which has been the family home 
continuously since that time.

Deeply loved and admired by her family for her executive ability and her 
abiding interest in their welfare and happiness, their devotion will be 
her truest monument. But she extended her sphere of influence outside the 
home and was among the first women to realize that women could do good in 
the world even outside the home. She was one of the founders of the Fulda 
Reading Club, which organization has throughout the years grasped the 
opportunity to assist in civic improvement. She was in the group which 
started the Fulda Public library and has worked for its maintenance and 
improvement through more than 35 years. She has been a zealous worker in 
the Presbyterian church and Sunday school, and was a member of the Aid Society 
and the Womens Missionary Society. She has been honored on several occasions 
both by the church and Reading Club in recognition of her work in those fields. 
Her friends will every remember her, gracious hospitality and her charming 
personality in her own home which was open for so many special occasions in 
her years of residence here.

Mr. and Mrs. Hyslop celebrated their golden wedding on March 17, 1937, with 
an open house and received the best wishes and congratulations of many 
friends from every part of Murray County, while hundreds of messages came 
from more distant points.

She is survived by her husband, two sons, John, of Fulda, and Tom of 
Massilon, Ohio, and three daughters, Miss Genevieve Hyslop of Fulda, 
Mrs. P.F. Smith of Beloit, Wis., and Mrs. J.W. Thompson of St. Louis, 
Mo., all of whom were present at the funeral services which were conducted 
Wednesday afternoon in the Presbyterian Church. She is also survived by one 
brother, Tom Phelps, Rochester, and two sisters, Mrs. S. Hazeltine, of Los 
Angeles, and Mrs. George Keyes, of Cucamonga, California." 
(This article came from a relatives scrapbook in Fulda, MN. The name and 
date of the paper are unknown. However, a handwritten date of "1939 week 
of Nov. 9" is on the top of the article.)