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Pioneer Memorial Cemetery ~ Sarah Ringo
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Ringo, Sarah
LAST: Ringo FIRST: Sarah MID: 
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Hodge TITLE: Mrs.
BORN: 19 Oct 1798 DIED: 20 Mar 1885 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
DEATH PLACE: Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - to Robert Ringo, 24 Dec 1818. 
1880 OR CENSUS - Sarah Ringo, age 82, b. Kentucky (both parents born in Virginia), is enumerated as the mother in the home of her son H. W. Ringo, age 45, b. Missouri, farmer, and his wife Ardilia, age 33, b. Missouri, along with Riley S., age 9, Robert E., age 7, William A., age 3, and Nellie, age 1, all born in Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
At the residence of her son, near Gervais, March 20, 1885, Mrs. Sarah Ringo, in her 87th years.
Mrs. Ringo, whose maiden name was Sarah Hodge, was born in Montgomery Co., Ky., October 19th, 1798. Untied in marriage with Robert Rongo, at the age of twenty; came west and settled in Missouri in 1821. She was the mother of five children, three girls and two boys. Came to Oregon across the plains, in 1851, and has since lived with her sons. Funeral sermon was preached by Rev. D. M. Keene, at the residence. The remains were followed to the cemetery by a large concourse of relatives and friends.
"We saw not the angels who met her there,
The gates of the city we could not see;
Over the river, on the eternal shore,
My mother stands waiting to welcome me"

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INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
SOURCES: 
Hollin
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Gervais, pg 109A)
SECTION: IX LOT:   
 
 

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