Posted on: Green Co. Wi Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/GreenObits/10476 Surname: Atkinson, Jones ------------------------- Albany, Green County, Wisconsin Vindicator, Thursday, June 28, 1888 Obituary Sarah Atkinson, consort of Frank Atkinson, and whose maiden name was Jones, was born in Radnorshire, Wales, May 22, 1838, and died of paralysis in the town of Albany, Green County, Wisconsin on Monday morning, June 25, 1888. She came from Wales to America with her parents about 1844. In her 17th year she was savingly converted and united with the church. At the age of 22 she was united in holy wedlock to her now bereft companion. To them have been born eleven children, three of whom while quite young were transplanted from this vain world to happy glory. Eight children, three boys and five girls, are still left with their father, without a mother's blessing, care and prayers. At her marriage, she was a member of the Primitive Methodist Church. After her marriage, she joined the church to which her husband belonged, fully uniting her destiny with his. For twenty-eight years they walked the journey of life together, sharing each other's joys and sorrows, bearing each other's burdens, and mutually aiding each other in life's great responsibilities and duties. As a faithful mother to her family she was pre-eminent; no toil was too much, no sacrifice too great if she could thereby help and comfort those who God had committed to her care. We shall long remember her earnest words that all her children might be "Taught of the Lord". As a Christian, all who knew her and watched her felt that Sister Atkinson was a good woman, an "Israelite, indeed, in whom there was no guile". She loved the House of the Lord, she relished and fed upon the preached Word. She loved the prayer meeting, the last one she attended only a few weeks ago; her experience was clear and spoke from a feeling heart. Although living some distance from church and having the care of a large family, yet she was always ready and willing to help in church work and by her hearty manner indicated that it was a pleasure for her to do what she could for her Master. Her's was not a high sounding profession, but "a serving with a careful Martha's hand and a careful Mary's heart". Her death doubtless came to her, as to all, unexpected. She had been enjoying her usual health, having attended the camp meeting on Friday evening and was intending to be at the church festival Saturday evening but the stroke came upon her suddenly and without warning, depriving her entirely of the use of one side of her body and of the power of speech; but none who knew her doubt for one moment that when her bodily powers failed that God was "the strength of her soul and would be her portion forever". In her sudden death, a family is sadly bereft, a church mourns, and all who knew her lament her departure. The funeral was held at her late residence on Tuesday morning, June 26, and was attended by a very large concourse of people. A sermon was preached by Rev. Jas. Lawson, from Matthew 5-8, after which her remains were conveyed to Brodhead and buried in the family lot in that beautiful cemetery.