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SARAH JOSEPHINE PEUGH NEEDHAM

SARAH JOSEPHINE NEEDHAM WAS BORN FEBRUARY 15, 1857, ON A  FARM IN BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INDIANA. SHE WAS NEXT TO THE YOUNGEST OF A FAMILY OF TWELVE CHILDREN OF DAVID AND NANCY E. PEUGH. WHEN A BABY SHE  WAS BROUGHT TO APANOOSE COUNTY IOWA BY HER PARENTS.

ON FEBRUARY 6, 1884, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MORTIMER C. NEEDHAM. TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN, ONE OF WHOM PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. HER HUSBAND PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ON JUNE 3, 1935. IN 1891 SHE MOVED TO ELLSTON, IOWA, WHERE SHE MADE HER HOME UNTIL HER DEATH JANUARY 3, 1944.

THERE ARE LEFT TO MOURN, THREE DAUGHTERS, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH; ALSO ONE OF THE CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE ELLSTON REBEKAH LODGE.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, AT THE ELLSTON METHODIST CHURCH. BURIAL WAS MADE IN THE ELLSTON CEMETERY.

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