Posted on: Crawford Co. Il Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Il/CrawfordObits/147 Surname: McNutt, Hurst, Barlow, Olwin, Smith ------------------------- Note: I have no connection to this family. I'm just posting an Obit that was sent to me by Barbara Dix who is transcribing old news articles for the website. MRS. SARAH E. McNUTT CALLED INTO GREAT BEYOND Mrs. Sarah E. McNutt, a well known citizen of this place, passed away Sunday morning at 10:30 after an illness of several weeks.  Sarah Elizabeth Hurst, daughter of John R. and Nancy Barlow Hurst, was born in Hutsonville, on the 19th day of April 1844; she was united in marriage with John McCrea McNutt, March 21, 1878.  Mr. McNutt preceded Mrs. McNutt in death in April 1900. To this union was born one son Bruce Owen, who with his wife and three children survive. Beside the family of her son, she leaves to mourn their loss one sister, Mrs. John Olwin of Robinson, Illinois, one brother, W. B. Hurst of Hutsonville and a number of nephews and nieces. In her home she was an ideal wife and mother and nothing was left undone that wuld add to the comfort of the home or to the enjoyment of the family. Visitors always found a welcome at her fireside and hers was the ministry of good cheer. Mrs. McNutt united with the Christian Church of Hutsonville at sixteen years of age. She lived a devoted Christian life; and although a quiet and unassuming member, she was in her religious matters, as in everything else thoroughly in earnest, and often did she express her implicit confidence in the immortality of the soul and the better life for all true Christian people in the great beyond. It was her earnest desire that all humanity should so live that they might finally be where pain, sickness, and sorrow should be no more. Mrs. McNutt after a severe illness of one month, passed away on the 23rd day of April, 1922. Thus ends the life of a good woman. Funeral services were held at the home, Wednesday at 2:30. Rev. Smith, resident pastor of the Christian Church assisted by Rev. Welsh of the Christian Church of Robinson conducted the services.  The Masonic Male Quartette of Robinson, feelingly sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" and "Sometime, Somewhere."  Interment was made in the Hutsonville cemetery.