Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1911 — Grandmother Ravenscroft Passed Eighty-Ninth Birthday. [ARTICLE]
Grandmother Ravenscroft Passed Eighty-Ninth Birthday.
Mrs. Sarah Ravenseroft, of Carpenter township, was 89 years of age Thursday, and a number of her friends came in with choice viands for dinner and spent the- day. Her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Irwin, and her granddaughter, Mrs. A. E. Wallace, of Rensselaer, were among the guests. The affair proved very pleasant to the venerable old lady, who is enjoying very good health and who Is able to be up and around every day. She was the recipient of a number of presents, of many postal cards and of general well wishes from her. many friends.
