Licking-Muskingum County OhArchives Obituaries.....Sarah Electa  Sedgwick September 10 1908
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Newspaper Granville Times

Granville, Ohio Thursday Afternoon, Sept 10, 1908
The Granville Times
Mrs. S.E.Sedgwick
Once again has the beautiful Baptist church of Granville thrown wide it 
portals, this time to receive a company of sorrowing friends gathered to pay 
the last sad tribute of respect to their beloved dead.
On Monday afternoon, September 7, 1908 at half past two an unusually beautiful 
and impressive service was held over all that was mortal of Mrs. S. E. 
Sedgwick, in the place, which for many years was the church home of herself and 
family.
The shock of the news of her sudden death which occurred on Thursday, September 
third after a slight illness of only a few days duration, the high esteem and 
warm affection in which she was held by a large circle of acquaintances and 
life long friends; the prominence of her family during many years residence of 
Granville and the love and sympathy felt for the grief stricken son and 
daughters by their old time friends and neighbors sufficed to bring together a 
large number of sincere mourners.
This love and sympathy found mute expression in the profusion of beautiful 
floral offerings which loving hands had arranged about and over the casket, and 
was further voiced in the musical selections exquisitely rendered by a quartet 
from the church choir with Mrs. Ashton at the organ. “Nearer My god to Thee,” a 
favorite hymn of the deceased, and  “Some day” were sang with unusual feeling 
and expression by Miss Howland, Marion Rose, Mears Rockwood and Ashton. The 
services were conducted by Dr. C.J. Baldwin, who spoke on the “Mystery and 
Ministry of Death.” In tender, comforting words, which fell like a benediction 
of healing on the sore hearts of the stricken family, once more called upon to 
face the Grim Reaper. There was a beautiful appropriateness’ not only in every 
word of the fine address but even in the very presence of the Pastor Baldwin on 
that occasion, as it was he who conducted the funeral service of Dr. Sedgwick 
13 years ago, and it was to his help and sympathy that the family turned, when 
for the first time in their experience death invaded their home, and took the 
idolized husband and father. The words of divine comfort spoken at the funeral 
of the husband were as seed in good soil and harvest blossomed in the heart of 
the sorrowing wife as the years of her widowhood brought to her more and more 
the realization that the ministry of sorrow can prove a benign influence. 
During the last few years of her life, this effect was manifest to all in the 
increased gentleness of manner, the Christian resignation, the serene and 
steadfast look forward to the hereafter, with the certain hope of a happy 
reunion with her loved ones on the other shore. Mrs. Sedgwick was the last of a 
family of 12 children, being the daughter of Ralph Granger and his wife, Hannah 
Spellman, daughter of the pioneer, Timothy Spellman. Sarah E. Granger was born 
August 1834 in Granville, and was educated in the Episcopal Seminary of the 
village and during her school day united with the Episcopal Church.
Her marriage to Dr. W. H. Sedgwick was solemnized in the house which she was 
born, and for forty years their life was ideally happy, their home, blessed 
with three children who survive to mourn their loss.
Mrs.. Sedgwick was a strongly domestic woman, loving her home, her family and 
her friends with a warmth of devotion, which left no room for doubt. She 
possessed of a strong character with pronounced personality in which there was 
no blurring of outlines. She was of a scholarly, thoughtful reflective nature, 
fond of study, and with a natural facility in writing, which she used to good 
purpose in compiling a history of Granville in collaboration with her elder 
sister, the late Mrs. Mary Risser.
This M S she left to Dr. F. W. Shepardson and many valuable old pieces of 
furniture are to be given in charge of the Granville Historical Society, in 
which she was much interested.
Coming of pioneer stock and having spent all of her life in Granville save the 
thirteen years of her widowhood which were pass in Chicago in the home of her 
daughters it is not surprising that as the years slipped by with apparently 
little physical change her heart should turn with more and more tenderness to 
her old home. The home of her childhood, her girlhood, her happy wifehood. That 
gradually her beloved Granville should become invested in her fancy with every 
charm and excellence, unknown to other places, and that in time she should come 
to think and speak of the place as “My Town.”
 Surviving her are two daughters and one son: Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. H, M. 
Moffett, and Dr. W.H. Sedgwick of Newark.
The pallbearers were, Dr Follett, E.T. Hobart, Burton Case, George T. Jones, J. 
W.  Ackley and Frank Robinson.
The family of the late Mrs. S.E. Sedgwick whish to express their gratitude to 
friends in Granville for the kindly sympathy and assistance rendered on this 
occasion of her funeral.
Lenora S Watson
Mary S. Moffett
Dr. W.H. Sedgwick II


Additional Comments:
Sarah E. Sedgwick died at the home of her daughter in Chicago Ill.  She was 
brought back to Granville, Ohio to be buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery there 
with the rest of her families.

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