DIED: 8/21/1925
AGED: 98
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OBITUARY ---------------WOMAN, 103, DIES AT RELIEF HOME
Times-Gazette
Redwood City, San Mateo County
Saturday August 29, 1925
There was buried from the Layng & Tinney
mortuary parlors
on Broadway on Saturday last the remains of
Sarah Dowland, who died the day
before at the Community hospital,
following a long illness. The remains
were laid away in Union cemetery.
She did not know the exact date of
her birth, but from records gathered
by friends it is show that she was
one hundred and three years old. The
aged lady saw the light of day in Ireland,
but at an early age came to New
York and from the gleanings of her early
career, it is learned that she became
prominent in the Bowery,
in the early forties, when that part of
New York was the respectable part
of the city. In 1848 she became
wealthy and hobnobed with the wealthy
and was looked upon as the social
leader of her set. Mrs. Dowland
becoming reduced in circumstances,
looked to the Golden West to recoop
her lost fortune and came to San
Francisco many years ago. California
did not prove to be the land of her
youthful dreams, although it did
prove such for some of her relatives.
Her brother, the late Michael
Skelly, in the early days owned the
North Beach and Mission railroads.
Many of the old timers in San Mateo
county will remember the latter for
it ran down Fourth to Third and
Townsend. The old horse cars would
take passengers up Fourth to Market
and to Kearney street and from that
street connect with the North Beach
line that traversed the north end
of San Francisco. The old horse cars did
a big business and Skelly
soon became a millionaire. Mrs. Skelly
died a few years ago leaving an
estate of $5,000,000, consisting of
valuable San Francisco realty. Mrs.
Dowland drifted from her family,
severing all ties and finally landed
in San Mateo many years ago, leading
a quiet and uneventful life with
her friend, the late Mrs. Perkins.
After the latter's death and when
she was old and decrepit, Mrs. Dowland
became an inmate of the county
relief home, where she lived in apparent
contentment and happines until
she was taken sick some time ago
and was removed to the Community hospital,
where she passed away to the other
shore after a long and
eventful life. Mrs. Dowland was
taciturn and would not speak of her
early career of life generally
although her friends tried to secure her
history for a narrative, but she was
modest, retiring and did not want
such prominence that such an article
would bring. Mrs. Dowland was a
kindly pelasant old woman who
strove always to please others and make others happy
and contented.
She had met revenues and perhaps lost
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but this did not affect her kindly nature nor change
her happy sile which greeted all. In poverty
and wealth she was the sae. May she find an
abiding place with the angels.
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