Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1917 — AGED LADY GONE TO REWARD [ARTICLE]

AGED LADY GONE TO REWARD

Mrs. Sarah Ravenscroft of Carpenter Township Died • Sunday. ,■ Mrs. Sarah Ravenscroft of Carpenter township, perhaps the Oldest resident of Jasper county, died at her home Sunday morning at about 5:30 o’clock. Mrs. Ravenscroft, whose maiden name was Sarah Flick, was a native of Virginia, a daughter of Henry and Nancy Flick. She was born April 27, 1822, and at the time of her death lacked but a few weeks of being 95 years old. When Mrs. Ravenscroft was born

'James Monroe was President of the ' United States, and in the span of her life the American frontier has been extended from the Mississippi river to the Pacific coast, and all | the great improvements and inventions which have transformed the On August 11, 1842, she was ■ united in marriage to Edward ; Ravenscroft, and for thirteen years ; they resided in Hampshire county, Virginia. In the fall of 1855 they came to Indiana and located on the ( i farm in Carpenter township, which has since been the family home.

Edward Ravenscroft died May 26, 1900, when well upwards of ninety years of age. Since that time Mrs. Ravenscroft has continued to reside on the home place with her son Sampson, making a residence of sixty-two years on the same farm. Mrs. Ravenscroft was the mother of eight children, seven of whom

are still living, • naniUy: Mrs. J. F. Irwin of Rensselaer, David of Gray, Oklahoma; Sampson, who resided w s ith his mother; Mrs. J. F. Rank, Chicago; Mrs. A. M. Horner of Kingman, Kansas; Henry K. of Bentonville, Arkansas, and Mrs. G. L. Parks of Milroy township. One ’Jasper 8., preceded his mother in death. world have taken place. Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and in-* terment made in the Rjemington cemetery.