NANCY SAVILLE SHEETS

MRS. SHEETS, WIFE OF OUR CITIZEN, B.F. SHEETS, DIED TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 23, AT 9 O’CLOCK. SHE BEGAN TO COMPLAIN OF ILL HEALTH DURING THE SUMMER AND STEADILY DECLINED UNTIL HER DEATH. WHILE HER CONDITION WAS KNOWN TO BE SERIOUS, THE END WAS NOT EXPECTED SO SOON. THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS THE FILLING UP OF THE LUNGS AND INTERFERENCE WITH RESPIRATION. HER DAUGHTER MRS. STEFFA, WAS WITH HER. NOTHING WAS LEFT UNDONE THAT WAS NECESSARY FOR HER COMFORT AND RELIEF, BUT HER TIME CAME AND SHE PASSED INTO THAT “MYSTERIOUS REALM”. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD AT THE METHODIST CHURCH JANUARY 25, 1900 AND BURIAL AT FREMONT CEMETERY.

NANCY SAVILLE WAS BORN APRIL 19, 1836, IN ROCK BRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND DIED JANUARY 23, 1900, AGED 63 YEARS, 9 MONTHS, AND 4 DAYS. SHE WAS MARRIED IN 1851 TO MR. G.W. BRIGHT, TO WHICH UNION WERE BORN FOUR CHILDREN, THREE SONS, AND ONE DAUGHTER, THERE OF WHOM ARE LIVING. ONE SON, W.H. BRIGHT, OAKDALE, PA; J.A. BRIGHT, MT. SIDNEY, VA; MRS. STEFFA, BELLE PLAINE, IA. THE HUSBAND, G.W. BRIGHT DIED JUNE 8, 1859.  SHE MARRIED AGAIN IN AUGUST 20, 1874, TO H.K. CONOR, WHO DIED IN MAY 1875. SHE WAS THEN MARRIED TO B.F. SHEETS ON JANUARY 29, 1899 AND HAS LIVED IN FREEMONT FROM THAT TIME TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH. MRS. SHEETS HAD BEEN CHRISTIAN FROM HER 13TH YEAR AND WAS READY AND WILLING TO DIE.