Place of Birth: Green County, Alabama
Age at Death: 70 years, 7 months, 21 days
Date of Death: February 12, 1905
Interment source:
Bay View Cemetery Association, Corpus Christi, Texas. Record of Interments
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Contributed by: Geraldine D. McGloin,
Nueces County Historical Commission
MRS. SARAH R. STAPLES
A Good Woman, Former Resident of Corpus Christi, Passes Away.
Died, at her home in Luling, Tex., on Sunday, Feb. 12, 1905, at 8:45 a.m., Mrs. SARAH RHODEN STAPLES, who was born in Green county, Ala., July 21, 1834. The death of this popular lady was a surprise to many of her friends here though it was known for some time she was in bad health. The remains were brought here Wednesday evening from Luling, the brother of the deceased, Mr. Wm. P. Dunlap, coming with them, accompanied by his daughter, Nannie, and son, Joseph, also Dr. Watkins, his son-in-law, the party being joined at San Antonio by Merrill Staples, grandson of the deceased, and at Beeville, by W. A. and H. T. Staples, two nephews, and Mrs. Rebecca McGloin, niece of the deceased. Mr. W. O. Staples, only surviving son of the deceased, who was in the City of Mexico at the time, was wired the news of he death of his mother on Sunday and he left next day for Corpus Christi, reaching here over the Texas-Mexican road Wednesday evening, a short time before the remains arrived over the Aransas Pass road. Mrs. Staples, who was a Miss Dunlap, married Mr. W. N. Staples in Mississippi in 1855, moving the next year to Texas, settling on the San Marcos river. In 1858 they moved to Corpus Christi, where they resided for nearly twenty years, the family being among the most prominent ones here, residing in the two-story brick nearly opposite The Caller office. About the year 1876 Mr. Staples brought a ranch in the western part of the county and they moved to the country. There Mr. Staples died on May 2, 1893. After the death of her husband Mrs. Staples moved to Alice, where she resided up to about four or five years ago, when she moved to Luling. She was a noble woman and a kind and devoted mother, loved and respected by all her acquaintances. She was the mother of five children, only one of which survives her. She leaves only one brother, Wm. P. Dunlap, and an only sister, Mrs. E. N. Chandler, of Nashville, Tenn. The funeral took place in this city yesterday at 10 a.m. from the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, the remains being laid to rest in the family burial ground in the old Bay View cemetery.
Source: Corpus Christi Weekly Caller, February 17, 1905, p. 5, col. 3
Research by: Msgr. Michael A. Howell
Transcription by: Geraldine D. McGloin, Nueces County Historical Commission
