Threlkeld - Sarah Martin
Source: The Crawfordsville Journal, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1924 (p. 8 col. 2)
Advance, Aug. 6- - Mrs. Sarah Rebecca Threlkeld, eighty years of age, was found dead early yesterday at her home one and a half miles west of Advance. Coroner E. A. Rainey of Lebanon pronounced death due to organic heart failure and stated he believed the deceased had expired about one o'clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Threldkeld was born in Union county, Ind., Dec. 13, 1843, the daughter of Rev. Jonathan and Elouisa Chenault Martin. She was married March 25, 1869, to John H. Threldkeld, who died April 14, 1916. Mrs. Threldkeld was a member of the Baptist Church of Advance. She is survived by four children, Lona, at home; Alva of Linnsburg; Elza, of Indianapolis; and Otto of AdVance; four brothers, Philetus, of Carey, Ohio; William, of Colorado; Jonathan, of Kansas, and Arba, of Attica; and five sisters, Mrs. W. H. Norris of Linnsburg; Mrs. Laura Anglin, of Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Elmira Forest, of Ruthdrum, Idaho; Mrs. Willa Ophan and Alice Burkdoll of Kansas.
Submitted by: Vernon L. Threlkeld (a great-grandson of the subject) Repository: Crawfordsville District Public Library, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Note: There are some misspellings of surnames, which are left as written in the original. Included is that for Mrs. W. H. Norris; it should be "Morris." Also, Mrs. Elmira Forest of Ruthdrum, Idaho is correctly Mrs. Elmira Faust of Rathdrum, Idaho.