- The Wesleyan – Thursday, 10 May 1888- Page 3 –Mrs. Nicholas Mosher, Arizona –Sarah Jane, daughter of William and Lydia Chambers, of Newport, N.S., and wife of Nicholas Mosher, was born in 1813, and departed this life Feb. 11th, 1888 in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., aged 75 years. She was reared from infancy in the principles of the Presbyterian faith, and adhered thereto until she reached mature years. During the winter of 1840, at a protracted meeting held in Oakland by Rev. Messrs. Grosscombe and Pope, she was awakened to a sense of her need of salvation, and obtained an evidence of personal interest in the merits of the Redeemer. She with her husband then united with the Methodist Church; and she maintained her church connection, and her union with the Saviour until the close of life. Her consistent Christian course, and her lovely, patient, meek spirit impressed all who knew her with the fact that no ordinary soul dwelt in the frail house of her tabernacle. She was so sweet and kind to all, and so devoted to her family, that those associated with her feel that the loss sustained by her death is almost irreparable. Her husband and four children were removed before her. The eldest son, Hugh, was a young man of piety and promise. Prompted by a conviction of a divine call to the ministry he was a student at Sackville in preparation for that work, but the hand of disease was laid upon him, and he was removed to higher service in the skies. Another son and two daughters were made partakers of grace and removed to the heavenly home. Mrs. Mosher was called suddenly away and no opportunity was afforded to give expression to her state of mind in her last moments; but her godly life was her testimony, and by it, she being dead, yet speaketh.
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1816 - 1888 (72 years)