Death Of Mrs. Plank

Death of Mrs. Plank.

Sarah H. Plank, the relict of James Plank, of Dundee, died yesterday at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Seth A. Randall, No. 321 S. Fourth ave. She had been an invalid for the past 20 years. Her remains will be taken to Dundee for interment on the noon train tomorrow. There will be no services at the house. The friends can view the remains from 10;30 to 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mrs. Plank was the daughter of Jonas and Hannah Du Bois and was born March 9. 1820, at Monroe, Orleans county, New York. She with her parents removed to Dundee in the year 1834. At that time there was no village there, the country being a wilderness. When she was 17 years old she married James Plank who died Oct. 27, 1873. Their union was blessed with seven children, of which only two, Mrs. Seth A. Randall and Miss Ida J. Plank survive their parents. Her only son was one of the more than 1,300 union soldiers who lost their lives on the steamer Sultaria which burned on the Mississippi at the close of the rebellion. Mrs. Plank in her youth was a member of the Baptist church, but after her marriage joined the Congregational church, of which her husband was a member.