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Obituary
from the South Bend Tribune:
Dies at 92.
Mrs. Sarah Slough, aged 92, died in the home of a daughter, Mrs.
Nora E. Long, of 3309 Wall Street, at 8 p.m. Tuesday. She was born
April 10, 1852, to a pioneer family in St. Joseph County, on a farm
on what is now the Miami Road, and was a life-long resident of this
vicinity.
In 1868 she was marrried to Michael Slough, who operated a saw mill
in the county. He died in 1888. She was the last of her family of
seven brothers and sisters and the last of the Slough family of
14. Her maiden name was Schmachtenberger.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Long, with whom she made
her home, and Mrs. Gertrude Williamson, of St. Petersburg, Fla;
two granddaughters, Mrs. Esta Kramer, of South Bend, and Mrs. Aneeta
Flicker, of Dade City, Fla.; two grandsons, Paul Williamson of Niagara
Falls, N.Y., and Charles Williamson, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and
five great-grandsons, one of whom is Jack Maurice Flicker, serving
with the U.S. Navy in the south Pacific.
Friends may call in the home of Mrs. Kramer, 309 Haney Avenue, after
7 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted in West Union Church,
Miami Road, at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Simon Moore, pastor of the Mennonite
Brethren in Christ Church, Mishawaka, Rev. R. L. Haley, pastor of
the First Evangelical Church, and Rev. Jesse Bellman, pastor of
the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, of which she was a member,
will officiate. Burial will be in West Union Cemetery.
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