Lucy Rodd Sarten

OBITUARY.

It is with regret we now note that another of the very earliest settlers of this settlement has passed away in the person of Mrs Lucy Sarten, relict off the late Mr Edmund Sarten. she had by an unassuming and trustful disposition acquired many friend?, and will be remembered as one who had undergone, with rare fortitude, the recking vicissisitudts of pioneer life, with the still more poignant fatalities of war. The deceased had exceeded the allotted term of life, by many years. Having been born in Martock, Somersetshire, in 1814; married in 1836; left Plymouth with her bus band, and her father's family— the late Mr John Lye— in the ship William Brian, in November 1840, arriving at Moturoa on March 30th, 1841. Edmund Sarten, her husband, died in 18G0. There were twelve children, two of which died in sick bed. Johu Edmund, the eldest, was killed at Waitara, during hostilities in 1860, and Joseph met with his death by a Maori ambuscade party at the Te Henui in the same year. Thus there are now left five sons and three daughters to bereave their loss namely, Messrs Levi and James Sarten, of Tikoraugi, William (New Plymouth), Frederick and Frank (Gisborne). The three daughters are Mesdames James Revell, George Thomas, (vVanganui), and Frederick Revell (Wellington).

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