This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCluskey, Powers, Keyser, Weaver Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1569 Message Board Post: SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. May 4, 1933.--Sarah Jane McCluskey, daughter of Stephen and Jemina Powers, was born at Springfield, Illinois, October 6, 1846, and passed away at the home of her son, Bert McCluskey, April 28, 1933. In early youth with her parents she came to Iowa and in 1866 she was united in marriage to W.S. McCluskey at Plum Hollow--now Thurman. To this union three sons were born. Robert passed on in early manhood and was joined in the great beyond by his father, W.S. McCluskey, October 23, 1931. Mrs. McCluskey joined the Baptist church in days of her youth, which faith she continued to the end. She was a member of Sunshine Circle and was always interested in their activities. Those who were associated with Mrs. McCluskey during her long residence here know of her kindly nature in the home and her ministrations to friends and neigbors in time of need, thus endearing her to many. She was the type of woman that will be long cherished in hearts of children. The two sons who are left to mourn her passing are A.L. of Brownville, Nebraska, and R.B. of Thurman. One grandson and three granddaughters, four great-grandchildren, two half sisters, Mrs. Nellie Keyser, Mrs. Lulu Weaver of Omaha, one half brother, Will Powers, of Glenwood also survive. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Buchanan, pastor of the Methodist church, at the home of Bert McCluskey. She was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Thurman cemetery.