Bedford (IN) Weekly Mail, December 30, 1898, p. 3. Aunt Sarah Freshwater, who had been an inmate of the County Poor Asylum for nearly 40 years, died Monday. Her age was unknown, but she was supposed to have been over 80 years old. She had been partially demented the greater part of her life, but was quiet and neat in her habits, her mania taking the form of occasional wild rambles over the county.