Sarah Lovica Cushing 
F, #3662, b. Apr 8, 1834, d. Aug 24, 1905
| Father* | Hosea Cushing b. Apr 20, 1800, d. Aug 22, 1879 |
| Mother* | Sarah Olney b. Apr 19, 1799, d. Feb 27, 1890 |
Family | William Edmund Freeman b. Dec 5, 1829, d. Jun 15, 1912 | |
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| Birth* | Apr 8, 1834 | Sarah Lovica Cushing was born on Apr 8, 1834 at Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States .1 |
| She was the daughter of Hosea Cushing and Sarah Olney. | ||
| Marriage* | Sep 22, 1851 | Sarah Lovica Cushing married William Edmund Freeman on Sep 22, 1851 at Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States.2 |
| Death* | Aug 24, 1905 | Sarah Lovica Cushing died on Aug 24, 1905, at age 71 at Howard County, Nebraska, United States.1 |
| Obituary | Aug 25, 1905 | OBITUARY: Thursday August 24, 1905 at 9:30 p.m. occurred the sudden death of Mrs. W. E. Freeman, one of the early pioneers of Howard County. Sarah L. Cushing was born in Potter County, Pennsylvania in the year 1834, where her father's family for many years have made their home and there in early childhood her playmate was William E. Freeman. The friendship of these children ripened into love and their lives were joined in holy wedlock September 22, 1851. Twenty of the early years of her married life were spent near her old home and there her four children were born. In 1871, in the hop e of benefiting his health, her husband decided to move west and thought it was the uprooting of dear associations and the sundering of warm ties of friendship, this noble heart beat only for her husband's weal and with her family she came and took up the burdens and bore the privations of the pioneer mother. In the spring of 1872 the farm where Cushing is now located was chosen as their hoe and a log house was built and here with a few household treasures from the east, she tried to surround her little family with an atmosphere of home Passing through all the stages of heart-loneliness and home-sickness, Indian scares, grasshopper raids, drowth and the discouragements incident to pioneer life, her affection for the new home and the new friends grew, and though during the following years her residence changed from place to place, the ties to her old home on the farm and to her old neighbors and friends grew stronger and it was always with pleasure that she came again among them. And it was to these old friends and neighbors that she came to spend the last days of her busy life. As there were none whose hearts had not been cheered by some loving act of hers so when death came, these dear old friends and neighbors performed for her with loving care all those sacred offices. The bereavement comes with the suddenness that numbs and makes her loss a deepening grief in the hear of her husband, whose devoted companion she had been for fifty-four tears and to her children that absence of prayerful watchfulness and protecting love. Her old friends and neighbors will miss her. Christian influence and her life so full of strength for others. Mrs Freeman united with M. E. Church when about twenty years of age and had always remained a loyal faithful worker in that organization. Her death was the first break in the family circle. Her husband W. E. Freeman and her four children, W. S. Freeman and G. H. Freeman of Cushing, Mrs C. F. Doyle of Chicago and Mrs Edgar H. Penner of Fullerton Survive her. Published in the St. Paul Republican - August 31, 1905.3 |
| Burial* | Aug 26, 1905 | She was buried on Aug 26, 1905 at Elmwood Cemetery, Saint Paul, Howard County, Nebraska, United States, Find A Grave Memorial# 15476909.4 |
Citations
- [S79] Gravestones - Find-A-Grave.com, online at findagrave.com.
- [S816] Site - International Genealogical Index (R) or Ancestral File, online at http://www.familysearch.org
- [S19] Obituary - Online, Newspaper or Funeral Home.
- [S58] Gravestones - Death Cert, Find-A-Grave, BillionGraves, #79.