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Obituary from the South Bend Tribune:
Dies at 92.
Mrs. Sarah Slough, aged 92, died in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Nora E. Long, of 3309 Wall Street, at 8 p.m. Tuesday. She was born April 10, 1852, to a pioneer family in St. Joseph County, on a farm on what is now the Miami Road, and was a life-long resident of this vicinity.
In 1868 she was marrried to Michael Slough, who operated a saw mill in the county. He died in 1888. She was the last of her family of seven brothers and sisters and the last of the Slough family of 14. Her maiden name was Schmachtenberger.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Long, with whom she made her home, and Mrs. Gertrude Williamson, of St. Petersburg, Fla; two granddaughters, Mrs. Esta Kramer, of South Bend, and Mrs. Aneeta Flicker, of Dade City, Fla.; two grandsons, Paul Williamson of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Charles Williamson, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and five great-grandsons, one of whom is Jack Maurice Flicker, serving with the U.S. Navy in the south Pacific.
Friends may call in the home of Mrs. Kramer, 309 Haney Avenue, after 7 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted in West Union Church, Miami Road, at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Simon Moore, pastor of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, Mishawaka, Rev. R. L. Haley, pastor of the First Evangelical Church, and Rev. Jesse Bellman, pastor of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in West Union Cemetery. |
