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From: Denny Shirer <>
Subject: SARAH ANN (ADAMS) SHIRER OBIT - Nov 1900
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:38:00 -0600


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DEATH OF MRS. G. W. SHIRER

As the quiet shades of darkness gather around at the close of day, so the
life of Sarah Ann Shirer came to a close after being permitted to live
in this world for four-score years. Her spirit passed away last Thursday
just before the dawning of the morn, as if emblematic of crossing the dark
valley of death into a life beyond the grave. Her death occurred after
an illness of about one week's suffering from apoplaxy.

About two years ago she suffered her first stroke of apoplaxy and since
that time she has been greatly afflicted. Notwithstanding the fact that
she had lived to a ripe old age, her death brought sorrow to many a heart.

Sarah Ann Adams was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Adams and was
born in Loudoun county, Virginia, May 12, 1820. Her mother died while she
was a very small child and when but seven years of age her father, too,
was called away. With no parents to love and protect her, she sought a
home with her older sister, Mrs. Michael Sarbaugh, who moved to this township
when the subject of this sketch was but nine years of age.

On the 29th day of September 1843, she was united in marriage to George
W. Shirer with whom she lived for fifty-eight years or the rest of her
life.

Six children, four boys and two girls were the posterity of this family.
One of the boys died in infancy and the rest of the children are still
living, and are: Mrs. Martha J. Doughty, Mrs. Mary C. King, William H.,
George N., and Robert Bruce Shirer, all living within a few miles of Adamsville.
Twenty grand-children and seven great-grand-children of the deceased also
mourn her departure.

The deceased many years ago became a member of the Adamsville Baptist church
and continued to worship with that society as long as she lived. Her life
was full of good deeds and her example to her children was one of frugality,
industry, honesty and uprightness at all times and under all conditions.
She was a loving wife and a kind and affectionate mother, and when her
bereaved husband and mourining children look at the vacant chair in their
family, they can do so with a feeling of gratitude as well as with a feeling
of sadness and sorrow.

The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. H. Moore at the Adamsville Baptist
church Saturday forenoon at 11 o'clock, and the remains were laid to rest
in the cemetery at this place.

(Appeared in the Adamsville Register, November, 1900)

Link: Shirer Family Genealogy Project
URL: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong>;

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