Mrs. Sarah Frances (Lents) Lentz Obituary

Mrs. Sarah Frances Lentz

Mrs. Sarah Frances Lentz died June 15th at her home on Friendship, Route 3 at the age of 54. She was a native of Dyer County and a member of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Lentz was a highly respected woman and her death is a source of deep regret to many friends and relatives.

She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Emma Lee Williams, Mrs. Dessie Rylant two sons, David Lentz and Edmond Lentz; two half brothers, Mr. Ashley L. Nearn, Mr. Dale Turnage and one sister, Mrs. Ida Gibbons.

Funeral services were held at Floyd's Chapel Sunday by the Rev. Roach. Burial in Floyd's Chapel.

Ronk Funeral Home in charge.

According to Erron R. Williams, her grandson, the obit should have read as follows:

Mrs. Eula Sarah Frances Lents died on 15 June 1946 in her home in Crockett County on Route 3 of Friendship, at age 54 years. She was a native of Crockett County and a member of the Floyd's Chapel Methodist Church. Mrs. Lents was a highly respected woman and her death is a source of deep regret to many friends and relatives

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ephriam Powers, Jr., Jerusha Adaline Floyd both of Crockett County. She is survived by her husband Emmett Harvey Lents, and five children, Emmaz Attress Williams of Richmond, California; David Olice Lents of Chicago, Illinois; O'Dessie Uree Rylant of Friendship Route 3; William Ephriam Lents of Hawthorne, California; and James Edward Lents of Crockett County, Tennessee. She is also survived by her step father Henry Dallas Turnage, and his son James Doyle Turnage, her half brother, and another half brother, William Ashley Nearn, and one half sister Ida Ethleen Gibbons of Maury City.

Funeral services were held at Floyd's Chapel on Sunday buy Rev. Roach; burial in Floyd's Chapel Cemetery, also identified as Old Field Cemetery.

Ronk Funeral Home in charge.

Additional family information from Erron:

Noah Floyd, an uncle of Jerusha Adaline Floyd, donated the land for the Methodist Church and the Cemetery, with the stipulation that it be named Floyd's Chapel.

The parents of Jerusha Adaline Floyd were James Floyd and Sarah Frances Jones; James died in Martin Co., NC from wounds received in the Civil War. Two brothers of James, Noah B. Floyd and George Washington Floyd, with the widow of James and her daughters, came to Haywood County Tennessee, that part that became part of Crockett County when it was formed.

James Floyd and Sarah Frances Jones had 7 children; a son and a daughter died in Martin Co., NC; the five daughters that came to Crockett County were Mary A. Elizabeth, Martha Emley, Marina Ethel, Sarah Jane, and Jerusha Adaline. The mother Sarah Frances Floyd has a very nice Tombstone in Floyd's Chapel Cemetery.

Jerusha Adaline Floyd, birth 12 Sep 1861, death 23 Apr 1935, was married 4 times in Crockett County;
1st to W. Henry Toler, 2 Oct 1878; 2nd to William Green Nearn, 10 Oct 1880; 3rd to Ephriam Powers, Jr., 10 Dec 1890; and Henry Dallas Turnage, 13 Oct 1899

Ephriam Powers, Jr., birth 26 May 1833, Pitt County, NC he moved with his parents and other children to Dyer Co., TN., death; 11 Aug 1899 at Chestnut Bluff, Crockett, TN. He was also married 4 times;
1st to Rachel Adaline Bailey, 9 Nov 1857; 2nd to Martha Ann Robertson, 7 Oct 1862; 3rd to Mary Ann Waters, 7 Aug 1876; and Jerusha Adaline Floyd Nearn, 10 Dec 1890.