Sarah Jane Trent

  Noted events in her life were:

• Religion: First English Lutheran Church.

• Obituary: Johnstown Tribune, Monday, August 20, 1917, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sarah Trent Coleman, wife of Herman Coleman, died suddenly Saturday evening at her home, 310 Strauss Avenue, Sixth Ward, in her 79th year. Mrs. Coleman was able to be about her home until Wednesday morning. She had gone to the yard to get the milk, when she was seized with a dizzy spell and fell against a post, fracturing her breast bone and injuring her hip, from the effects of which her death occurred.
Sarah Trent Coleman was the eldest daughter of George and Lydia Long Trent, both deceased, and was identified with two of the oldest families of Johnstown and Somerset. She was the last of her family to survive, three sisters-Katharine, wife of Isaac Jones, of Somerset; Mary, wife of William Levergood, of this city; and Jennie, wife of George McClelland, also of this city. She is survived by her husband, aged 83 years; four sons-William H., Harry, Ralph, and Charles, all of this city' three daughters-Mrs. Lydia Michaels, of Beaverdale; Edith, wife of S.E. Ream, of this city, and Sarah, wife of William Swank, of Hooversville. She is also survived by 31 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Three sons, Geo. W., John E., and Millard F., whose widow and family survive, on Osburn Street, and one daughter, Emma C., have preceded her to the grave.
Mrs. Coleman was one of the oldest residents of the city, coming here from Somerset in 1850, and residing here ever since.
Funeral services will be held at her late home at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, the service to be conducted by her pastor, the Rev. Robert D. Clare, of the First Lutheran Church, of which the deceased has been a lifelong member, Private internment will be in Grandview Cemetery, in charge of undertaking H.M. Picking.
This obituary was posted on Ancestry.com's for Cambria Co., Pennsylvania by Ellis Michaels in 2002.

Sarah married Herman Hiram Coleman, son of John E. Coleman and Catherine Schroyer, on 18 Nov 1854 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. (Herman Hiram Coleman was born on 24 Feb 1834 in Listie, Somerset Twp., Somerset Co., Pennsylvania, died on 12 Mar 1921 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania and was buried on 15 Mar 1921 in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown, Cambria, PA.)