The death of Mrs. Sarah C. Christeson removes from our midst one of the oldest landmarks of
pulaski county. She was the eldest child of the late Cyrus Colley, who was one of the early pioneers of the county, and was born in the state of Kentucky, December 1, 1824.
In the year 1830 she emigrated with her parents to Missouri and settled on Colley Hollow and has resided in this immediate vicinity up to the time of her death. On October 21, 1844, she was married to E. J. Christeson, to which Union eleven children were born, eight of whom are yet living. In early life her husband became stricken with blindness, hereby causing the rearing of the children and the management of the family affairs to fall in a large extent upon her shoulders. She accepted the misfortune with Christian fortitude and Spartan courage and the fidelity with which she fulled that trust is best attested by her happy and prosperous family of children and grandchildren she leaves behind.
While of a retiring disposition, yet her cheerfulness was inspiring and her devotion to her family was of that noble, self-sacrificing quality which only a good, true, noble mother and the angels of heaven possess.
She had lived in this community for almost 80 years and she witnessed the transformation of a
trackless wilderness into beautiful town and farm. While she had lived for more than four score
years, yet every moment of that eventful life was benediction and a blessing to her loved ones.
Since the death of her husband she has made her home with the families of her children, at whose firesides she was ever an honored and welcome guest. She dies last Saturday at the residence of her son, Elisha, and was buried the following Sabbath at the family cemetery amid the tears and regrets of a large concourse of relatives and friends.
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