Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Sarah Ann Eakins

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Obit for Sarah Ann Eakins

Sarah Ann Eakins was born in Wise County, Texas, June 6, 1882, to Willie May 
and Ney Lilley.

She died February 25, 1959 in Cheyenne, Oklahoma at the age of 76 years, 5 
months and 19 days, after an illness of six months.

At the age of 14 she moved with her family to a homestead near kiowa, Oklahoma 
where she grew to womanhood.  She had been a member of the Methodist Church 
since childhood.

She was united in marriage to Jesse Eakins, February 14, 1900, at Cheyenne, 
Oklahoma, and they filed on a homestead between Hammon and Strong City.  They 
worked side by side to hlep in the development of his new state, Oklahoma.

To this union three children were born, Illie, Bernard and Sam.

They moved to Elida, New Mexico in 1932 where she resided until a few months 
ago.

She was preceded in death by her mother, father, one sister, her husband, 
Jesse, and one son, Sam.  She is survived by one daughter, Lillie Barton, 
Crawford, one son, Bernard, Crawford, two grandsons and two great grandsons, 
and a host of other friends and relatives.

Rev. A.L. Martin of Crawford preached the funeral sermon in the Baptist 
church of Cheyenne, Friday afternoon, February 27, 1959 in the presence of a 
large crowd of relatives and friends.

Committal was in the Bellview cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under 
the direction of Scroggins Funeral Home of Cheyenne.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok