The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-26
Game Here From Ohio sixty-Six Years
Ago and Had Continued
Her Residence
Here.
WAS BORN IN OHIO
Was Well and Most EavorabIy know,
to Large Number Of the
Older keokuk
People.

There is SC y in the hearts of
many Keokuk PEOPLE over the death
o. another Of the good old mothers Of
the city, who came here over sixty
years ago and has continued her resi-
dence here ever since, living life of
commendabIe work of christian labor
and usefulness.
Mrs. Sarah r. Harmon died at the
home OF her son, J. w. Harmon, 1924
Oak street, at 9:30 o'clock Friday
night, after long period of illness,
yet her death came with a quiet,
peaceful christian faith which charac.
terized her life and she went to sleep
with beautiful trust in heart, prais-
ing the giver Of all good gifts, and
the Savior of sinful earth. Hers
was an exceptionally beautiful life.
always devoted to the best there is in
life, model in her home, faithful
laborer in her church, a kind and
obliging neighbor and friend in
whom there was no guile.
Sarah R. Wickham, her name before
marriage, was born near GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, March Z, 1882, and came to Keo-
kuk with her parents in 1S4S. In 1851
she was married to William Harmon,
who died in 1904. To this union five
children were born, three daughters,
two Of whom died in infancy, and the
other, Mrs. M. B. Hamilton, died in
1886, and two sons, J. w. and c. e.
Harmon, both of Keokuk, who togeth-
er with one. brother, Jacob A. Wick
ham, of Kahoka, Mo-, also seven
grandchildren and five great-grandchil-
dren, survive her.
She embraced religion and joined
the Methodist Episcopal church in
1853 and she had remained true and
faithful to the teaching of that de-
nomination throughout her entire life,
a period of sixty-one years, and Grand
ma Harmon as she was affectionately
called, could say with a trusting
smile, turned upward toward her Faith
,er's eternal palace: II have fought
the good fight. I have kept the faith,
henceforth there is laid UP for me,
etc.
Calm and peaceful and full of faith
was the end. She had no fears OF
death. To her it was like starting on
la pleasant journey for period of
joyful rest. For some time she had
been failing in health and strength,
and the earth gave her no hope like
that promised to the faithful. Her
grandson, a trusted and faithful man
Iof God, was at her bedside as the
1ickering sparks of life were fast
turning to ashes. She talked to him
with failing voice, telling him Of her
blessed hope; how death had no ter
rors for her, that she was going; and.
as the angels Of heaven smiled her
spirit went upward to meet them
Her friends were numbered by the
number of people who knew her. and
all join in praise of her noble life and
mourn at her death, and yet they feel
that she is even happier now away
from the turmoils of earth in a bright
awe in the presence of death that can
not be avoided, but it is robbed of
most Of it's terrors when the conscious
ness is felt that the dead had lived
their allotted days and had passed in
to eternity amid the music of heaven
~ anthems, and had entered into that
house of glory. not built with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
. The funeral services will be held at
2:3O o'clock this afternoon at the resi-
dence of her son, J. w. Harmon, 1924
Oak street. Burial will be private.