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Waupaca Post

September 15, 1921

AGED WAUPACA PIONEER DIES SATURDAY EVE

MRS. SARAH JANE MANCHESTER CAME TO WAUPACA SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO –

FUNERAL MONDAY

The passing of Mrs. Sarah Manchester last Saturday evening removed from our midst one of our oldest citizens. She was taken ill about six weeks ago and rapidly failed, due to a general collapse, caused by old age.

Sarah J. Vaughan was born at Springville, N.Y., Aug. 23, 1833. She came to Waupaca in 1856 and taught school in Lind. In 1858 she was married to Darwin L. Manchester and lived in this city continuously till his death twenty-six years ago. Since that time she has spent her summers here but has lived with her children during the cold months.

Deceased is survived by two children, John JD. Manchester, who is a surgeon in the Navy, and Mrs. F.A. Lowell of Rhinelander, a sister, Mrs. J.H. Woodnorth, of Milwaukee, a niece, Miss Blanche Woodnorth, of Milwaukee, and a nephew, James W. Bemis, of this city.

Mrs. Manchester was the oldest member of the Baptist church, was a charter member of the woman’s Relief Corps and was a member of the Eastern Star Lodge. She was an active member in the church and the Relief Corps until a few years ago when her age prevented these activities.

The past winter was spent in San Diego, Calif., with her son, who is (illegible on copy) of the U.S. Naval Hospital. She had spent a happy winter and returned to her old home the middle of June. Her son and daughter were at her bedside during her illness.

The funeral was held Monday afternoon at two o’clock. The services were simple – the reading of the twenty-third Psalm and a prayer by the Reverend Jacobs of the Baptist church.