BIRD, Sarah (Lorance) - b. March 19, 1852 - d. April 27,1927

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Howard Courant
May 5, 1927

Sarah, daughter of Eli and Sarah Lorance, was born near Seymour, Indiana, March 19, 1852, and departed this life at her home near Elk Falls, Kansas, April 27, 1927, aged 75 years, 1 month and 8 days.

At the age of five years she came to Kansas with her parents, who located a claim near Iola in April 1857.  She grew to womanhood in that community passing through the troublesome times of the border warfare attending the admittance of the State of Kansas to the Union, and the Civil War that followed.  She experienced the privations through which the pioneers of Eastern Kansas were called to pass.

April 16, 1871, she was married to Jasper N. Bird.  They came to Howard county, May 6, three weeks after their marriage and located on the land that became their farm home through all the years that followed. There, their children, Fred, Maude, Roy, Carl, Lew, and Ruth were born.  Grace and Roy passed away in infancy. Fred at the age of 15 and Ruth, August 1922.  Mr. Bird departed this life May 30, 1904.  Mrs. Bird was for many years a faithful member of the Women's Relief Corps.  A picture taken of the Elk Falls branch is yet in several homes in the community.  All of the elder ones are gone from earth.

Mrs. Bird was a Charter member of Ladonia Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Elk Falls, and was elected Worthy Matron for the year 1911.  This and other offices she filled right creditably, always standing for the things that made for peace.

In the year 1890 she accepted the teachings of Christian Science, and was very devoted to its principles, to the end of her earthly life.

She was a faithful and affectionate wife, mother and friend.

A very large number of friends gathered at her home for the funeral service, Thursday, April 28.  Appropriate music by a quartette, arranged by Miss Esther Arnall, a brief address by Newton Hill, beautiful floral tributes were comforting.  Interment in Elk Falls cemetery.