Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1918 — THE CLOSE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE [ARTICLE]

THE CLOSE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

“AUNT” SARAH PRUETTE DIED AT EARLY HOUR THIS MONDAY MORNING. “Aunt” Sarah Pruette, one of Jasper county’s best known and loved women, and a step-mother of Mrs. J. A. McFarland, passed hway at her home on South Weston street at 1:45 lo’clock this Monday morning, after an illness of but a few hours’ duration. Although Mrs. Pruette had been in feeble health for the several months past, her condition did not take a serious turn until about two o’clock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Pruette suffered a stroke of paralysis almost a year ago and this was the direct couse of her death.

Deceased was born in Parke county, Ind., June 10, 1832 ana was therefore eighty years of age at the time of her death. In 1865 she came with her husband, Abraham Pruette, to Newton county, Ind., where they lived until 1876, coining to Jasper county to reside on a farm in Jordan township until about 1892, after which they returned to Goodland where they lived for about eight years. In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. Pruette moved to Rensselaer where they lived until their deaths occurred. Mrs. Pruette united with the Missionary Baptist church in 1869 and was always a devoted follower of tlie doctrines of that church. Mrs. Pruette was the last of the family by that name, her nearest surviving relatives being her nephews and nieces who live in Oklahoma, Illinois and Indiana. The iuneral services will be conducted by Rev. D. C. Hill at the late residence at ten o’clock Wednesday morning and burial will be made in Weston cemetery.