The Life of Sarah Ann Short
Died, at her home on West Lulu street, Monday, November 20, Mrs, L. A. Short, aged eighty -two years and six months. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church Wednesday at 1 :30 p. m., conducted by Rev. Buckner, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Olathe cemetery. In the death of Grandma Short Olathe loses one of her very best citizens.
Olathe Mirror
November 23, 1899
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Olathe Mirror
November 23, 1899
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Mrs. S. A. Short.
(Died; in Olathe, Kan., November 30, 1898, Mrs. S. A. A. Short, wife of the late Wm Short, aged eighty-two years and seven months.)
Sallie Ann Heron was born in Newburg, N. Y. April 21, 1817. At the age of four years she moved with her parents to Ohio. She was left an orphan at the age of seven years, one of a family of seven children.
Although early in life deprived of the protecting care of her parents, she found many good friends with whom she staid until ten years of age, at which time she entered a home as one of the family, remaining with them until she reached the age of twenty-two. In those days the educational advantages were not what they are today, but being of a studious disposition and possessing an unusually bright mind, she determined to acquire an education. She therefore acquainted herself with the course of study pursued in the Worthington Female Seminary and prepared herself by home study to enter the institution, which she did at the age of twenty-two years. She taught three years in the state of Ohio, when she went to Illinois, where she again engaged in teaching, being employed in one place for ten years.
She was married to Wm. Short November 3, 1857, at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Ill., making that their home until they came to Kansas in 1866 living the first year in Baldwin City, two years in Ottawa, then locating on their farm one and a half miles north of Stanley, where they lived for several years, moving to Olathe in 1879, again to the farm in 1891 where her only child, William, died at the age of thirty-four. They again moved to Olathe the next year when they lived comfortably happy until January last the aged husband was called home to his reward being past ninety years of age. The wife did not linger long in loneliness for in less than a year they were reunited in the home above. At the age of seventeen years she united with the Episcopal church.
Funeral services were conducted in the M. E. church, by the pastor Rev. J. D. M. Buckner. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The pulpit tastefully decorated with potted plants an impressive part of the service being the tributes laid upon the coffin by the members of the Foreign Missionary Society as they passed, to take the last look upon the face of one of their most devoted members.
Olasthe Mirror
November 20, 1899
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(Died; in Olathe, Kan., November 30, 1898, Mrs. S. A. A. Short, wife of the late Wm Short, aged eighty-two years and seven months.)
Sallie Ann Heron was born in Newburg, N. Y. April 21, 1817. At the age of four years she moved with her parents to Ohio. She was left an orphan at the age of seven years, one of a family of seven children.
Although early in life deprived of the protecting care of her parents, she found many good friends with whom she staid until ten years of age, at which time she entered a home as one of the family, remaining with them until she reached the age of twenty-two. In those days the educational advantages were not what they are today, but being of a studious disposition and possessing an unusually bright mind, she determined to acquire an education. She therefore acquainted herself with the course of study pursued in the Worthington Female Seminary and prepared herself by home study to enter the institution, which she did at the age of twenty-two years. She taught three years in the state of Ohio, when she went to Illinois, where she again engaged in teaching, being employed in one place for ten years.
She was married to Wm. Short November 3, 1857, at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Ill., making that their home until they came to Kansas in 1866 living the first year in Baldwin City, two years in Ottawa, then locating on their farm one and a half miles north of Stanley, where they lived for several years, moving to Olathe in 1879, again to the farm in 1891 where her only child, William, died at the age of thirty-four. They again moved to Olathe the next year when they lived comfortably happy until January last the aged husband was called home to his reward being past ninety years of age. The wife did not linger long in loneliness for in less than a year they were reunited in the home above. At the age of seventeen years she united with the Episcopal church.
Funeral services were conducted in the M. E. church, by the pastor Rev. J. D. M. Buckner. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The pulpit tastefully decorated with potted plants an impressive part of the service being the tributes laid upon the coffin by the members of the Foreign Missionary Society as they passed, to take the last look upon the face of one of their most devoted members.
Olasthe Mirror
November 20, 1899
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