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Submitted: 3/1/13 • Approved: 3/4/13 • Last Updated: 3/7/13 • R840866-G840866-S3
Mar 23 1859 - Apr 22 1929
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, April 25, 1929
THOMAS, Sallie A. DALTON - Mrs. Sallie A. Thomas died Monday afternoon at Sand Springs, Okla. where she had for a number of years made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hugh Miller. She had been failing for some time and the news of her death was not unexpected by relatives and close friends of the family. Services were held at Sand Springs Tuesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Miller and children, Miss Estella and Thomas arriving here with the body yesterday morning. Brief services were held at the cemetery at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon when Mrs. Thomas was laid to rest by the side of her husband, Capt. R.S. Thomas, who died April 29, 1911 at his home in Rogers. Sallie Dalton was born in Atlanta, Georgia March 23, 1859. The Dalton family was one of the best known pioneer families of this section and when they first came to Benton county settled on Prairie Creek on the place now known to most of our people as Woods Lodge. When they moved to Rogers they lived at the southeast edge of town and to the older residents the property is still known as the old Dalton place. A brother, Will Dalton, while serving as city marshal and attempting to make an arrest east of Rogers down Esculapia Hollow, was shot and killed by the Shepherd boys and the affair was one of the early tragedies of this city. She married Capt. R.S. Thomas May 30, 1882 and they had but the one child. Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Thomas is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Love Simms of Ponca City, Okla. and Mrs. Amanda McMillin of Sapulpa, that state; and by two brothers, Rev. John Dalton of Northfield, Minn. and Robt. Dalton of Mt. Hope, Kansas. She was a sister of the late Mrs. W.H. Fowler and former Mayor Jay Dalton of this city. The Democrat editor had enjoyed the friendship of Mrs. Thomas for a third of a century and had a great admiration for her many splendid qualities. She seldom visited Rogers without coming to the Democrat office and her unfailing optimism and good nature was always a welcome tonic. It is with sadness that we mark the passing of these splendid pioneers of Rogers to whom the present generations owe so much that can never be repaid. Although Mrs. Thomas had lived in Oklahoma some years she was ever a faithful friend of Arkansas and woe unto the thoughtless conversationalist who slandered Rogers, Benton county or her home state in her presence. We shall miss our occasional visits with Mrs. Thomas more than we can tell - and so will all of her friends here.
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