From Rick B
Thursday, August 26, 2004
"The South Bend Tribune", Tuesday Evening, May 8, 1923, section 1, page 5
Mrs. Sarah Geyer.
Mrs. Sarah Geyer, age 84, life long resident of St. Joseph county died at Pocatello,
Idaho, at 9:45 o'clock Sunday night following a short illness with infirmities of age.
She was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1838 and had lived in St. Joseph county nearly
all her life. She is survived by her husband, Jacob Geyer; two daughtres, Mrs. I. N.
Fluckey, Lakeville, Ind., Mrs. S. B. Downing, Michigan; one son, Mark Geyer. Pocatello,
Idaho; two sisters, Mrs. C. L. Cooper, Dayton, O., Mrs. Laura Slayman, Kansas; one
brother, Cyrus Harris, Chicago; 11 grand children and five great grandchildren. She was
married to Jacob Harris in Plymouth , Ind., in November 1860. The body will be taken to
the home of her daughter, Mrs. I. N. Fluckey, Lakeville, where funeral services will be
held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Rev. Clinton Polen, pastor of Lakeville
Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Palmer's Prairie
cemetery.
(Please note: "daughters" really does appear as "daughtres" in the
paper. Palmer's Prairie Cemetery is now called Southlawn Cemetery.)