Helphenstine - Sarah Newton
Source:
Greenfield, Dade County, Missouri 14 July 1910 Thursday p 8
Sarah
Newton was born in Farmington, Iowa July 11, 1840 and entered inter her eternal
rest July 5, 1910. Though not attaining to an extreme old age, she outlived her
brothers and sisters, but was the first member to be taken from her own family
circle. Her early life was spent in Indiana and at Crawfordsville in that state
she was married to Mr. Amos Helphenstine Feb 10, 1868. Six weeks after their marriage they came to
Greenfield and lived here ever since. In her youth it was her privilege to live
in a town famous for its schools and its distinguished literary men,
Crawfordsville being the seat of Wabash College and the home of General Lew
Wallace, the author of Ben Hur and of Maurice Thompson, the editor and nature
writer. The tastes awakened and cultivated in that delightful atmosphere of her
youth she ever retained, always loving that which was beautiful in nature and
art and pure and good in literature. Mrs. Helphenstine united with the church
in her early life, and during her long residence in Greenfield was a member of
the Ebenezer Presbyterian church. She was one of the charter members and the
first president of the Ladies Aid Society of that church. For many years she
was active in the church and social life of the community. The Woman’s Relief
Corps had in her a worthy and useful member, and any good cause could count not
only on her sympathy but on her help up to the measure of her time and her
strength. Perhaps she is best known and
will be longest remembered for her many acts of kindness which she performed
quietly, hidden from the public eye. She was the friend of the friendless, the
visitor of the sick, the comforter of the sorrowing; and lived as one who had
caught the meaning of the Master’s words, “I came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister.” Her children rise up
and call her blessed. Her husband also, and he praiseth her. - kbz