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Sarah Jane Combs was born December the 28th, 1858 near Peoria, Ilinois. When 14 years of age she moved with her par ents to a farm northwest of Gra vity and one mile south of Gass where she grew to womanhood. She was married to Abednega Cass Davis September 19, 1877. To them six children were born, five of whom, with her husband survive her, Ida Mae McFarland of Omaha, Aurora Ellen Mills of Lenox Abednego Davis who died when two years of age, Winnie Dorcas Feterson of Omaha, Francis Elmer of Gravity and Dorie Love of Weslace, Texas. She with her husband reared her family on a farm near Guss with occasional moves to Gravi ty and Clarinda for convenience of educating her family. After all were marrried but the young est Dorte, she moved to a farm west of Gravity. Here and in her cottage in Gravity she remained until his education was almost completed In 1918 she moved to Weala co, Texas. Here she resided un til the summer of her fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1924, when she took up her tempo rary residence at Gravity to be near her children. Since then she has divided her time with her children on account of fail ing health. In August of this year she suf fered a stroke of paralysis from which she was recovering when pneumonia developed. After two days of suffering she passed a way at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. S. F. Peterson in Omaha, on January 21, 1935. She was a faithful wife, and ‘a kind and loving mother and a devoted friend to everyone. Hers was a life of sacrifice and of good Christian faith having united with the Methodist church when her children were small. Beside the husband, A. C. Davis and five children, one bro ther, Francis Marion Combs of Fleming, Colorado; she is sur vived by a nephew, Joseph Tho mas Lower of Gravity, who is almost like her own child; five nieces, eight grandchildren; James, Waldo, Cecelia and Mur iel McParland, Mable Mae Palm berg, Mildred and Melva Davis Davis (Continued on page 8)
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Lenox Time Table
Lenox, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 31, 1935
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