Sie ist verheiratet mit Harvey Cleland DeMott.
Sie haben geheiratet am 26. Juli 1864 in Atlanta, IL, sie war 20 Jahre alt.
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Mrs. Sarah J. DeMotte, widow of the late Prof. Harvey C. DeMotte, and one of the best known of Blooington´s women in religious and educational affairs, died on Sunday morning just before 11 o´clock at her home, 902 North Main Street. She had been sick just a week. Taken with a severe cold, this became a pronounced case of pneumonia in a few days, but weakness and chronic ailment of the heart was the primal cause of death.
Sarah Jeanntte Kern was born at Washington, Illinois September 29, 1843. She was the daughter of David and Emily Kern, and her father was one of the pioneer business men of Tazewell County and later of Logan County. The family moved to Pekin and then to Atlanta, and the father engaged in banking business in these towns.
Mrs. DeMotte early took up the profession of teaching, for which she was exceptionally fitted. She became the first woman teacher at the Wesleyan University, then in its infancy. She had charge of what was called the model school of the Wesleyan University, where young children attended. In this position, she taught many boys who afterward became prominent business men of kindly instruction and spoke to her of it.
She was married in Atlanta on July 26, 1864, to Harvey C. DeMotte and even after her marriage, she continued her work as a teacher, being employed in the English department of the Bloomington High school.
There is one child Mrs. Clara Munce, now making her home at her mother´s residence. There are three grandchildren Mary Jeanette, Charles DeMotte, and Margaret Louise Munce, all children of Mrs. Clara Munce. Two sisters survive, Mrs. J.L. Beath, of this city, and Mrs. T.M. Walker, of Devore, California.
Although Mrs. DeMotte was a woman who loved her home and family devotedly, yet her sympathies were broad enough to embrace many community interests. For twenty years she served as secretary of the Board of Managers of the Girls´ Industrial Home, and she devoted much of her time and attention to that institution.
She was a charter member of Grace M. E. Church. She was one of the earliest members of the History Club, was an active member of Grace Church Guild, and vice president of the Wesleyan Guild. She was second regent of Letitia Greer Chapter of the D.A.R.. The past year she was elected vice president of the young Women´s Christian Association.
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