Ozaukee Obituary

The Port Washington Star
August 6, 1910

DIED - At the home of her son in this city, on Sunday, July 31, at 11:45 a.m., Sarah Gale DENNETT, aged 82 years, 11 months and 10 days. She is survived by three sons and a daughter: vis.: F.A. DENNETT fo Sheboygan, J.R. DENNETT of Port Washington, C. M. DENNETT of Cleveland, O., and Mrs. Luise E. HOPKINS of Kansas City, Mo. the funeral was held on Tuesday, Rev. COREY of the Waukesha Congregational church officiating; the burial was in the family lot beside her husband in the cemetery at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; and was strictly private. The remains were conveyed to the Falls by a Milwaukee-Northern special car, accompanied by relatives and a few intimate friends.

Mrs. DENNETT was a daughter of Mr. Richard GALE, Jr.; was born at Waitsfield, Vt., Sept. 12, 1827; came to Sheboygan Falls in 1844 where she married and lived for many years. Subsequent and after the death of her husband she came to Port Washington and made her home with her son, Mr. J. R. DENNETT, for the remainder of her days.

The deceased had the unique distinction of having been the only Wisconsin member of an original chapter ofthe Daughters of the American Revolution and was up to the time of her demise affiliated with Elizabeth Beaton Chapter: D. A. R., of Kansas City, Mo. Her father, Richard GALE, Jr., was a member of Capt. Elihu SEYMOUR's company of Northfield, Mass., in 1779, and served with distinction during the Revolutionary War.

Mrs. DENNETT was universally beloved among our people for her sweet, amiable and charitable dispotion; a woman of wholesome, God-loving character - cultured, refined, winsome, she influenced to higher and nobler living every person wih hom she came in contact. She will be greatly missed in social, church and most of all in home life. Peace to her ashes.