This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#148755) Sarah McWilliams <http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=148755> AUTHOR: Cindy Bray Love DATE: 3/3/2007 at 11:45:08 Surnames: NEILING,CLOUGH,THOMA Sarah E. McWilliams. Sarah E. Neiling was born at Mt. Vernon, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, on June 22, 1840. When fourteen years of age she came with her parents to National, Clayton County, Iowa, and the remainder of her life has been spent in this county and the immediate vicinity of Postville. On March 15, 1860 she was united in marriage to J. B. McWilliams. To this union ten children were born. She is preceded in death by her husband, who was called away on March 11, 1896, and four children. Huston, a babe of eleven monlhs, Edgar, twenty five, Minnie, five, and Zella three years of age. There are left to mourn her death four sons and two daughters, Mrs. May Clough of Eureka, Montana, George of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Virgil, Carey and Emmet of Chester, Iowa, and Mrs. Fred Thoma of Postville, at whose home she passed away on Wednesday evening, September 11,1918. There are several grand children and a host of neighbors and friends who grieve with tneir children in their great lost. Mrs. McWilliams was a member of the PoilvilleCongregational church. She was of a retiring disposition, a lover of her home and family and a good citizen of America. >From "The Sun Herald (Lime Springs, Iowa)" September 26, 1918