Thursday, December 11, 1941
Sarah Booher, Mother
Of Lex Reunion, Passes
with
Mrs. Sarah Booher, 97, whose
birthday party a few years ago in
spired the annual pioneers reunion
at Lexington, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Beymer,
in this city last Thursday following
a lingering illness.
Funeral rites were held at Lex
ington Sunday afternoon be ginning
at 2 o'clock from the Christian
church, George Tucker officiating. A
large attendance of relatives and
friends paid tribute to the deceased.
Interment was in the Lexington I.
O. O. F. cemetery.
Sarah Johnson was born October
23. 1847 at Darlington, Indiana. On
May 24, 1866, she was married to
Benjamin L. Booher. Three daugh
ters were bom to this union, all of
whom survive. They are Mrs. Nettie
Crow, Armstrong, B. C; Mrs. Effie
Parkins, Palouse, Wash., and Mrs.
Sylvia Beymer, Heppner. 5
While the two older girls were
small Mr. and Mrs. Booher started
west by wagon and team, stopping
at Pueblo, Colo., for two years, then
with an uncle, Bill Booher, started
On west. In Wyoming they joined
a wagon train, and on July 4, 1880,
landed at Weston, Oregon. The fol
lowing spring, in 1881, they took
homesteads north of Lexington, and
many years later moved into' Lex
ington where Mrs. Booher contin
ued to reside until her death. In
the spring of 1921, Mrs. Booher was
baptized by Rev. Wooster, then pas
tor of the Christian church at Lex
ington. The ceremony was perform
ed in Willow creek. She had been
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