Obit for Sarah Jane Cooper - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Barbara Clayton OklahomaClaytons@aol.com Return to Kingfisher County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kingfisher/kingfisher.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Source: THE DAILY MIDGET, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Tuesday, February 27, 1912 - Obituary. Sarah Jane COOPER was born in the year of our Lord, 1863, in Ohio. She united with the Methodist church in her girlhood days, and lived according to this faith until her death. She was married in the year of 1858 to Mr. J. S. SNODGRASS. To this union were born twelve children, three dying in infancy and two, Lucretia Groves and John H. SNODGRASS, died after becoming grown to womanhood and to manhood. Seven which are still living and were present at the funeral are: Hiram C. SNODGRASS of Vandalia, Mo.; Mrs. Jennie TURNBULL of Vandalia, Mo.; Mrs. Sarah DAVEY of Summerfield, Kans.; George L. SNODGRASS of Drummond, Okla.; Mrs. Rosetti TUNISON of Kingfisher, Okla.; Mrs. Minnie E. PIERCE of Kingfisher, Okla.; and Mrs. Rachel L. RICE of Omega, Okla. Also one brother, Mr. Bill COOPER of Frederick, Okla., and one sister, Mrs. Sue ROGERS of Vandalia were present. In the year of 1858 they moved to Brown County, Kans., and then in the year 1891 they moved to Oklahoma where they have lived on the homestead place, seven and one-half miles northeast of Kingfisher, until the time of her death, which occurred Feb. 12, 1912, caused by bronchitis and heart trouble. She has been an invalid for the past thirteen years, but had been bed-fast for about two months. She leaves an aged husband 78 years old, seven children, twenty-seven grandchildren, two sisters, two brothers and a host of friends to mourn her loss.