Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — Obituary.—Mrs. Ann Sayler. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.—Mrs. Ann Sayler.

For Tin Union. Mrs. Ann Sayler, whose funeral was held from the M. E. church last Sunday afternoon, died at Rochester, Minn., on Wednesday, the 10th mat., of typhoid pneumonia. Her remains were brought here for interment with her husband and ohiidren in our Weston cemetery. Deceased was born in August, 1806, and was, therefore, in her seventy-fourth year. She was tbe wife of David Sayler, who, with bis family, came from Ross county, Ohio, in 1848, and located at Rensselaer, whore -he died, m 1854. Ho built tbe Sayler block,. now Known aa “Leopold's Corner,’L. on Van Rensselaer and Washington streets. Their family comprised two sons and five daughters, nnd were well known io Jasper county. 'Four of the daughters married here. Tbe httsbar.d and father, one son, William, and two daughter*, Mrs. Moss and Mrs. Hamare buried here, and now near them the mother. Of her many relatives atiil living we mention, as old settlers, Mr. Thos.-Monnett, her brother, Messrs. Isaac Saylor, Micah Sayler and Henry Sayler. Besides these are a great number of remoter do;rees of kinship both in consanguinity, and affinity.

Mother Sayler ha* been a member of tha M. B. church for more than sixty years last past. After the death of her husband ibe family went to Laporte, in this state. They returned after about tbreo years to Uensselaer, and again resided here several years. Sincdleaving Rensselaer she bat resided first with her daughter, Mrs. Minor Thompson, at Effingham, 111., (who, it will be remembered, was burned to death by a chemical explosion several years since,) and since her death, with her only surviving daughter, Mrs. Copp, at Rochester, Minnj Mrs. Copp and her husband, Rev. William Copp, brought the remains to this place. Wherever deceased has been known she has been esteemed for her exemplary life, pure Christian character and true womanly virtues. Her religious convictions were very deep and h*r daily walk waa in every way consictent with her Christian piofeesion. She lost her sight about eighteen months before slid died but retained the faculties of mind perfectly lo the last mo* ment. . She lived to good ripe years in a life of purely unselfish work, and while all but »ne of her children, and most of her grand children have gone before bar, the is remembered add her death mourned by a very large circle of relatives and friends to whom she had endeared herself. * * *