Published as it appeared on June 26, 1911, in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Page 2, Columns 2-3.
MRS. SARAH ANN
KISOR CALLED
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Mrs. Sarah Ann Kisor died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.G. Copeland, in Newport, Friday, June 23, 1911, aged 82 years, one month and ten days. She was born in Tippicanoe county, Indiana, March 13, 1829, near Lafayette, but came West in early life and had spent the larger part of the intervening years in Benton county, Oregon.
When about 11 years of age, she with her parents moved to Livingston county, Illinois, and about one year later moved again to Muscatine, Iowa. In the year 1846 she was united in marriage to George M. Kisor and settled temporarily near Des Moines, Iowa.
In the year 1852 they joined a large company bound for Oregon. This trip was one of great hardship, Mrs. Kisor having lost on the way her father and mother, besides several brothers and sisters, from cholera. They arrived in Portland, Ore., in mid-winter, poorly clothed, out of food and nothing to do, besides having several orphan children to care for.
In the Spring of 1853 they came to Corvallis, then called Marysville, where they resided a short time when they took up a donation claim near Monroe. In 1865, when the town of Philomath was first laid out, they were among the first to move there. It was here they spent the greater part of the remaining years of life. Her husband died March 28, 1896.
In the year 1901 she suffered a slight stroke of paralysis, from which she never fully recovered, and another stroke in 1906, and a third in 1909, all together leaving her almost helpless and speechless, yet her mind was clear and memory accurate, and her interest in events and her loved ones did not wane.
She was the mother of seven children: four sons and three daughters, of whom are living: Amos E. Kisor and Mrs. C.G. Copeland, of Newport, Ore.; Mrs. J. Mason and Mrs. Alex Campbell, of Corvallis; Walter Kisor, of Philomath; William Kisor, of Marshfield, and A.B. Kisor, of Washington.
She was a woman of unusually strong and large frame, forceful character, yet kind and benevolent and possessing all the womanly qualities in high degree. About the Fall of 1853 she united with the Church of Christ and was baptized by Elder Castile, near Monroe, Ore. She was an every-day Christian. Her Bible was her constant companion, and she loved nature and life and people and her Lord constantly and vividly. The beautifying influences of a pure religion were spread over a life and character as spotless and charming as was ever possessed by any of the noble women who have lived and died during the ages that are gone. Her life was a blessing and a benediction to all within the sphere of its influence and it is difficult to pay just tribute to a life whose full measure of praise cannot be expressed with tongue or pen. No one was more willing to aid the needy or cheer the despondent or comfort with Christian counsel the erring or distressed. And thus she died, cheerful to the end, full of hope in the rest of the redeemed and a plain path before her to the evergreen shore.
Published as it appeared on July 2, 1911, in the Oregonian (Portland), Page 44, Columns 4.
NEWPORT PIONEER DIES
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MRS. SARAH ANN KISOR SUR-
VIVED BY SEVEN CHILDREN
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Father and Five Sisters Victims of
Colera When Party Crossed
Plains in Early ’50s.
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NEWPORT, Or., July 1. — (Special.) — Mrs. Sarah Ann Kisor, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.G. Copeland, in this city, June 23, was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., May 18, 1829.
While making the journey to Oregon in 1852, Mrs. Kisor’s father and five sisters, who were in the party of immigrants, died of cholera. She and her husband first settled at Corvallis, and in 1865 they moved to Philomath, where they lived until 1896.
In January, 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Kisor celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at which all the children living were present. Mr. Kisor died in March of the same year.
Mrs. Kisor was stricken with paralysis in 1906, from which she never fully recovered. She was the mother of 11 children, seven of whom survive her. They are: Amos E. Kisor and Mrs. C.G. Copeland, of Newport; Mrs. Alexander Campbell and Mrs. J. Mason, of Corvallis, Or.; William E. Kisor, of Portland; Walter E. Kisor, of Philomath, and A.B. Kisor, of Eastern Washington.