Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — DEATH OF MRS. WILSON STERRETT [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF MRS. WILSON STERRETT

Mrs, Wilson Sterrett, mother of County Superintendent Sterrett, was found dead in her bed at her home near Rockfield early last Saturday morning. She retired the evening before in usual health and was found at 4 oclock the next morning. Death did the work so quietly that there was no evidence of pain or struggle. It is thought that heart trouble was the cause. She was fifty-eight years of age and the mother of thirteen children, all of whom survive her except one son, who died two years ago at the age- of 22. These children were all born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Sterrett.' Wilson Sterrett, the father, is still living. Mrs. Sterrett has many friends and acquaintances at Wheatfield and Rensselaer who. will shocked to learn of her unexpected death.