Sarah Milligan 1853-1935

MILLIGAN, LITTLE, CLARK, KUCHEMAN, BIXLER, WINGERT

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 3/5/2018 at 15:49:10

7 February 1935 - The Tipton Advertiser

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church in Tipton, Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock for Mrs. F. H. Milligan, who passed away January 23 at her home in California. The body was brought to Tipton this week for interment in the Masonic cemetery by the side of her husband who passed away five years ago. Rev. H. N. Poston conducted the service.

Sarah Amanda Irvine Milligan was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1853. She was one of thirteen children. Her death occurred on January 23, 1935, at the home of her daughters, Mrs. W. W. Little and Miss Flora Milligan in Long Beach, Calif., where she has made her home for the past ten years. On December 25, 1877, she married Frank Hawkins Milligan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and with him came to Tipton, Iowa, where they lived on their farm east of Tipton until their retirement in 1898. Mr. Milligan passed away August 2, 1929.

Mrs. Milligan has been a member of the Presbyterian church all her life, and a member of the Tipton church since March 2, 1884. She was active in all religious movements.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Anna M. Clark of Tipton, Miss Flora I. Milligan and Mrs. Mary B. Little of Long Beach, Calif., Miss Grace M. Milligan of Crawfordsville, Indiana; and one son, Alexander S. Milligan, of Tucson, Arizona; two granddaughters, Miss Louise M. Milligan of Tucson, Ariz., and Mrs. Lucile M. Kucheman of Akron, Ohio; and one great-grandson, Clark. Besides these one brother and three sisters survive: one being Mrs. Elizabeth Bixler, who lives in Tipton with her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wingert.