Obituary of SARAH BARDWELL
Transcribed and contributed by Gerri Williams, 15 May 2006.
The Pleasanton Herald
Friday, August 27, 1886
Obituary - BARDWELL - At her home in Pleasanton on Friday morning, Aug. 20, 1886, at 5:30 o'clock, Mrs. Sarah Bardwell, aged 63 years and 7 months, of paralysis and congestion of the lungs.
Deceased was born in Guilford, Vt., on the 19th day of January, 1823. She was the daughter of John and Marcy Melendy. She was married to Charles Bardwell in 1842, at Guilford, who died in 1877. In 1855 she, with the family moved to Claremont, N.H. She resided here until 1879, when, having lost her husband, she removed to Pleasanton, where she has resided ever since. She was the mother of four children, one son and three daughters, Charles R., Flora A., Clara A. and Lizzie E., two of whom still survive - Charles R. and Clara A. Sabine. She also has three brothers and two sisters living - John C. and Moses P. Melendy, of Pleasanton, Aurissa Rice, of Mound City, and Elizabeth Dickey, of Massillon, Ohio. Mrs. Bardwell was a devout Christian, she having belonged to the Episcopal church for a great many years. She had been ailing for a number of years, the result of a stroke of apoplexy, and bore her sickness and pain with remarkable courage. She was a woman of good mind, strong friendship and deep convictions, and will be greatly missed by her friends and relatives, and particularly by her son Charles and daughter Clara.
Rev. Blakemore conducted the funeral services at the M.E. church on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The corpse was followed to its last resting place, in the Pleasanton cemetery, by a large procession of sympathizing friends.
