This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yowell, Smith, Thompson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4316 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. March 6, 1908. "SARAH JANE YOWELL".-- Was born in East Virginia on the 14th of July 1847. She died on the 2nd of March 1908, aged 60 years 7 months and 18 days. In the month of September 1866, being then 19 years old, she was married to Mr. Daniel P. Smith and with her husband moved to Fremont county, Iowa, 35 years ago. She was the mother of eleven children, six boys and five girls. Of these, one boy and one girl preceded her into the shadowy land. On the 9th of March, 1894, her husband passed away. For almost five years she remained a widow, being married again on the 2nd day of December 1899 to Mr. C. P. Thompson with whom she was living at the time of her death. Besides Mr. Thompson, nine of her children by her first husband, all of whom but two are married, and three step-sons are left to mourn her loss. Mrs. Thompson died of goitre of the neck, having suffered therewith for about 32 years. In early life she gave her heart to the Savior, being baptized into the Wesleyan Methodist church, but in the year 1885 in a meeting held at Liberty she united with the Christian church and subsequently moving to Riverton, took membership with the church at that place. Her end was peace. The funeral took place from the Riverton Christian church on Tuesday afternoon, the 3rd instant, the pastor, Eld. H. A. Pallister, assisted by Rev. Fred Harris, of the M. E. church, conducting the services.