Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Sarah C. MOORE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Mrs. Sarah C. moore died at her old home in Magnolia, April 9, 1907, of heart failure, aged seventy years and nine days. The deceased was born in Ohio, in 1836, and came to Wisconsin in 1855. She was married to Ambrose Moore of Magnolia, in 1850; he died in 1877. The deceased was the mother of nine children, and tenderly cared for two stepchildren. One of her children died in childhood; the surviving children are all married. One son Charles and a daughter, Clara Long were present at her bedside at the time of her death. The funeral services were held from the Magnolia church, April 12th. This faithful mother died as well all may well pray to die, ready, peacefully and painlessly. It seems that a kind Providence had designed to make her last days easy, as her early days had been severe. Certain it is that a girl, whose mother died when she was an infant and father died when she was eight years of age, thence thrown out to grow up among strangers, a step-mother when she was nineteen, and a widow with a family of eleven children when she was forty, has earned a lasting peace. April 19, 1907, Enterprise, p. 3, col. 7, Evansville, Wisconsin Note: the dates are as printed in the Enterprise. However, the date of coming to Wisconsin and the date of marriage may be reversed. According to the text she was nineteen when married and became a step-mother. With a birth date of 1836, a marriage date of 1855 would make her 19 at the time of her marriage.