Thursday, January 01, 1970

Sarah Elizabeth Scroggin Dawson
(16 Nov 1867 - 19 Mar 1938) [16724]

Sarah Elizabeth Scroggin Dawson [16724]

Obituary - Harrisburg (Illinois) Daily Register, 31 March 1938

Wife of Rev. Robert Dawson [16723] of Wasson Dies; Funeral Today

Mrs. Lizzie Dawson, 71, wife of the Rev. Robert Dawson of Wasson, who had a paralytic stroke Tuesday, died Wednesday at 1 p.m. and was buried today at Spring Valley Cemetery.

Arrangements for her funeral were hurried so that relatives who came from Florida Tuesday to be present at the burial of Presley Dumford [16734], a step son-in-law of Mrs. Dawson, might attend. Mrs. Bertha Dumford [16725], the widow, whose home is in Kissimmee, Fla., is a stepdaughter of Mrs. Dawson. Mr. Dumford, who formerly lived in Harrisburg and Eldorado, was buried at Cottage Grove cemetery Tuesday afternoon, and the Florida relatives did not learn of the sudden illness of Mrs. Dawson until after the burial service.

Mr. and Mrs. Dawson have lived at Wasson for many years. He is 92 years of age and, for the past 64 years has been a Social Brethren minister.

Their children are: Mrs. Cressie McDonald [16728], Harrisburg; Mrs. Granville (Ethel) Colbert [16727], Wasson; the Rev. Bluford Dawson [16729], Methodist minister at Creal Springs; and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Olive Bean [16726], Eldorado, besides Mrs. Dumford. Mrs. Ellen Reynolds [16763], Harrisburg, is her only sister.

The Revs. Mack Wasson and Rue Reid conducted the funeral service at Spring Valley this afternoon.

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