This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sale, Sprong, Smith, Cole, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1868 Message Board Post: Source: Gibbins family Bible of Dearborn County, submitted to me by Shuman researcher Ken Heffley. [email protected] I don't have a date from the newspaper. JESSIE OLIVE SALE Jessie Olive Sale was born near Dillsboro, Indiana, December 11, 1885, and slept away at her home in Dillsboro, July 5, 1934. her parents were John D. and Martha Sprong Smith. her father enlsited in the Union Army at an early age and served under Grant and Sherman around Chatanooga and Atlanta and the famous "march to the Sea."Jessie when a child, often questioned her father about his experience in camp on the battle field or on the march. After the war he was a farmer for several years, but on account of an accident he was unable to continue farming and removed to Dillsboro. Her mother was a very unusual homekeeper, a devout member of the Methodist Church, and a very ardent worker therin. She was also a minister if mercy at the bedside of the sick and the home of the needy. In this atmosphere, Jessie grew to be a sweet, gentle child, and wonderful wife and mother. She took an early interest in education and music. She was the first graduate of the Dillsboro High School, and! later took three years training in the teachers college at Terre Haute. She taught school for approximately twenty years in Ripley county and Dearborn county, and in the high schools of Vincennes and Kokomo. Mr. George C. Cole, former superintendant of the Dearborn County schools and later state superintendant of Public Instructions said of her that she was one of two outstanding teacher's in all his experience. She loved music and early became proficient in piano and singing. It greatly pleased her mother to hear her beautiful voice singing the old time church hymns and it pleased her younger friends to hear her sing the " Low Backed Car" and other popular songs of the times.She became a member of the Methodist Church when a child and was an active worker in choir and Sunday School as long as her health permitted. She married Edgar S. Sale, June 14, 1922. They have two boys, James Fleetwood age 9 and John Elward, age 6. She was devoted to her home, her husband and her children.She took an active part in community affairs and was a past Worthy Matron, of the order of Eastern Star, and was also as active member of the ladies auxiliry of the American Legion. She was passionately fond of poetry and literature, and we can say of her as one of her beloved peots has said:- " I can not see that thou art far Since near at need the Angels are, And when the Sunset gates unbar Shall I not see thee waiting stand And while against the evening star The welcome of thy beckonig hand."