Obituary published Friday, 6 April 1883, in the Lititz (PA) Record as furnished by Dana Dancy:
"Death of Sarah Ann Cann [sic] -
Mrs. Sarah Ann Cann [sic], one of the most aged members of this community, departed this life last Saturday, March 31. She was born in Emmaus, Lehigh county, Pa., Nov. 25th 1797. The years of her youth were spent amid the quiet shades of that ancient Moravian town. There she united with the church of her father's, the Moravian, in 1814; there she was married to the late Philip Cann [sic], July 20, 1823. Removing from Emmaus, she lived two years in Allentown; then on to Lititz. For several years she found employment as a cook in the Sister's House, while her husband worked for a long period on the old Geitner tannery. According to the custom which then prevailed with many Lititz families, the worthy subject of this sketch boarded and mothered large members of the late John Beck's students. On the 9th of August, 1870, her husband was taken from her side by death, leaving her an aged widow, possessed of a remarkably active mind, yet suffering considerably from the infirmities of the flesh. She was ever patient and resigned in the midest of tribulations that were trying her as by fire. That she was deprived of all participation with the rest of the community in the services of her church was most painfully regretted by her, and this all the more because in her better years she was a regular attendant upon divine worship. On last Friday the first stmotoms of her collapse set in and on the following day her spirit was called home. She departed this life calmly and in the hope of immortality. The days of her pilgrimage was 83 years, 4 months and 6 days."
"Death of Sarah Ann Cann [sic] -
Mrs. Sarah Ann Cann [sic], one of the most aged members of this community, departed this life last Saturday, March 31. She was born in Emmaus, Lehigh county, Pa., Nov. 25th 1797. The years of her youth were spent amid the quiet shades of that ancient Moravian town. There she united with the church of her father's, the Moravian, in 1814; there she was married to the late Philip Cann [sic], July 20, 1823. Removing from Emmaus, she lived two years in Allentown; then on to Lititz. For several years she found employment as a cook in the Sister's House, while her husband worked for a long period on the old Geitner tannery. According to the custom which then prevailed with many Lititz families, the worthy subject of this sketch boarded and mothered large members of the late John Beck's students. On the 9th of August, 1870, her husband was taken from her side by death, leaving her an aged widow, possessed of a remarkably active mind, yet suffering considerably from the infirmities of the flesh. She was ever patient and resigned in the midest of tribulations that were trying her as by fire. That she was deprived of all participation with the rest of the community in the services of her church was most painfully regretted by her, and this all the more because in her better years she was a regular attendant upon divine worship. On last Friday the first stmotoms of her collapse set in and on the following day her spirit was called home. She departed this life calmly and in the hope of immortality. The days of her pilgrimage was 83 years, 4 months and 6 days."
Obituary published Friday, 6 April 1883, in the Lititz (PA) Record as furnished by Dana Dancy:
"Death of Sarah Ann Cann [sic] -
Mrs. Sarah Ann Cann [sic], one of the most aged members of this community, departed this life last Saturday, March 31. She was born in Emmaus, Lehigh county, Pa., Nov. 25th 1797. The years of her youth were spent amid the quiet shades of that ancient Moravian town. There she united with the church of her father's, the Moravian, in 1814; there she was married to the late Philip Cann [sic], July 20, 1823. Removing from Emmaus, she lived two years in Allentown; then on to Lititz. For several years she found employment as a cook in the Sister's House, while her husband worked for a long period on the old Geitner tannery. According to the custom which then prevailed with many Lititz families, the worthy subject of this sketch boarded and mothered large members of the late John Beck's students. On the 9th of August, 1870, her husband was taken from her side by death, leaving her an aged widow, possessed of a remarkably active mind, yet suffering considerably from the infirmities of the flesh. She was ever patient and resigned in the midest of tribulations that were trying her as by fire. That she was deprived of all participation with the rest of the community in the services of her church was most painfully regretted by her, and this all the more because in her better years she was a regular attendant upon divine worship. On last Friday the first stmotoms of her collapse set in and on the following day her spirit was called home. She departed this life calmly and in the hope of immortality. The days of her pilgrimage was 83 years, 4 months and 6 days."
"Death of Sarah Ann Cann [sic] -
Mrs. Sarah Ann Cann [sic], one of the most aged members of this community, departed this life last Saturday, March 31. She was born in Emmaus, Lehigh county, Pa., Nov. 25th 1797. The years of her youth were spent amid the quiet shades of that ancient Moravian town. There she united with the church of her father's, the Moravian, in 1814; there she was married to the late Philip Cann [sic], July 20, 1823. Removing from Emmaus, she lived two years in Allentown; then on to Lititz. For several years she found employment as a cook in the Sister's House, while her husband worked for a long period on the old Geitner tannery. According to the custom which then prevailed with many Lititz families, the worthy subject of this sketch boarded and mothered large members of the late John Beck's students. On the 9th of August, 1870, her husband was taken from her side by death, leaving her an aged widow, possessed of a remarkably active mind, yet suffering considerably from the infirmities of the flesh. She was ever patient and resigned in the midest of tribulations that were trying her as by fire. That she was deprived of all participation with the rest of the community in the services of her church was most painfully regretted by her, and this all the more because in her better years she was a regular attendant upon divine worship. On last Friday the first stmotoms of her collapse set in and on the following day her spirit was called home. She departed this life calmly and in the hope of immortality. The days of her pilgrimage was 83 years, 4 months and 6 days."
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