Llano County, TX - Obituaries:  Vest, Sinia Elizabeth, 1947

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                        Llano County's Oldest Citizen Died Friday



  Mrs. Sinia Elizabeth Vest, perhaps the olest resident ot Llano county, 

died at her home near Valley Spring last Friday, April 18. (1947)

  Mrs. Vest, the former Miss Sinia Elizabeth Cates, was born in Missouri 

March 2, 1850, having passed her 97th birthday slightly over six weeks 

before her death.

  When she was two years of age her parents moved to Texas, settling in 

Burnet county, where she lived until womanhood.

  In 1868, the deceased was united in marriage with B. C. Vest, who 

preceded her in death March 31, 1917.

  This couple with their children, moved to Llano county in 1882 and made 

their home in the Valley Spring community, where they lived for the remainder 

of their lives.

  Mrs. Vest was a member of the Valley Spring Methodist church having joined 

that denomination in early childhood.  She is survived by five daughters, Mrs. 

Maggie Allsup, of Junction; Mrs. Nanie Hendricks, of George West; Mrs. Mattie 

Reagor, of Llano; Misses Lucinda Vest and Lucy Vest, both of Valley Spring.  

Two children preceded her in death.  All, with the exception of Mrs. Allsup, 

were present for the final rites for the mother.

  The Rev. W. L. White, pastor of the Valley Spring Methodist church, conducted 

the funeral service, assisted by the Rev. R. K. Heacock, Methodist minister of 

Llano, at the Methodist church in Valley Spring Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock.  

Interment was in a neighborhood cemetery near her home. 

  Pallbearers were Frank Reagor, Dammon Reagor, Tom Allsup, Millard McWilliams, 

Wendel Faris, Granville.  Three of them were grandsons and three grandsons-in-law.

  Among the out-of-town relatives and friends attending the funeral were Mrs. J. O.

Hendrick, S. P. Hendrick, Jesse E. Hendrick, Mrs. Clyde Barnes, of George West; 

Mr. and Mrs. George Hendrick and family, James M. Hendrick, of San Antonio; 

  Mrs. O. D. Richardson, James L. Richardson, Mrs. Roy A. Hick, of Mathis; Mrs. 

J. A. Harris, of Beeville; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Knobb, of Brenham; Mrs. W. E. White, 

of Houston; Tom Allsup, Mr. and Mrs. Brit Allsup and family, Mrs. Matt Burt and 

family, of Junction; Mrs. Rosa Bush and family, of Richland Springs, Mr. and Mrs. 

Warren Bryson, of Liberty Hill; Mr. and Mrs. John Hoerster, of Ari; Mr. and Mrs. 

F. C. Reagor and sons, of Millerview; and Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Reagor, of Austin.

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