Ref: Mediapolis New Era, Mediapolis, IA, 16 Apr. 1890 – Mrs. Sarah Dotterwich, a daughter of Uncle Johnnie Hutchcroft died at her home in Burlington on Monday. Her funeral takes place today. She had lived in Burlington almost continuously since her family came to America.

Ref: Undated, Burlington, IA Newspaper - In Memoriam – Mrs. Sarah Ann Dotterweich (nee Hutchcroft) died yesterday morning at seven o'clock, after an illness of three weeks, caused by heart trouble and the development of an abdominal tumor. During the last fortnight she suffered the most intense agony which the strongest drugs served to only partially alleviate. But through it all she battled bravely for her life and not until Saturday night did she waver in her hope of final recovery. A few days before the physicians had given her up and the sad side could not bring themselves to tell her the doctors' decision. Saturday night, after a very severe attack, she realized that her endurance could not hold out much longer and for the first time spoke of her probable death. And when informed of the hopeless character of her case, she calmly accepted the inevitable and announced her wishes as to the disposition of her earthly affairs and the arrangement for her funeral, even naming the friends she desired should bear her body to its last resting place.

The end came sooner than had been anticipated. Sunday morning she began to fail rapidly. A little while before she died, the watchers thought she was passing away. Her husband spoke to her, when she suddenly roused from her stupor and sat upright in bed and began to tell those about her of the glories of heaven, saying she had been there and had seen relatives, whom she named, who had preceded her to the life beyond. A few minutes later and all was over – she had entered the valley of shadows on her way to Zion.

Mrs. Dotterweich was a woman of the most generous attributes and heartily beloved by a large number of genuine friends, whom she delighted to have around her hospitable board. Thoroughly frank and friendly in disposition, she had a kindly word for everyone she knew, and she possessed a keen sense of humor which was as genial in quality as the sunshine. Withal, she was self-reliant and a housewife who fully understood the art of making her home attractive. To her husband, her death is a bereavement most bitter. Theirs was a true marriage, and the present writer who in these columns chronicled the happy wedding in the years gone by, finds it indeed a sad duty to come thus early to the record of her demise. With many another intimate friend of the family, he feels the most acute sympathy with the stricken husband and the aged father and mother and the brothers who mourn their dead. Mrs. Dotterweich will live in the hearts of all who enjoyed her friendship as a woman worthy of life-long remembrance. We have bidden her farewell on this side the river of time – for how long, the good God only knows.

Deceased was the daughter of M/M John Hutchcroft, natives of England, who survive her and now reside upon their farm near Mediapolis. She was born in Newport, Yorkshire, England, March 30, 1848, and came to this country in her twentieth year with five others of the family, numbering eleven children, following the parents who had crossed the Atlantic to the New World in the fall previous. Since her coming she resided almost continually in this city. Oct. 13, 1880, she was married to Mr. George Dotterweich, now shipping clerk for C. P. Squires & Co. And no one will miss her thoughtful care more than the aged mother of her husband, Mrs. Elizabeth Rupe, now in her eighty-third year, to whom she was a daughter in the full sense of the term. Four brothers and six sisters residing in different parts of Iowa, with the parents survive her – it is the first death in the family. The relatives in Burlington are Mrs. Theodore Rundorff and Mrs. James Jordan. Mrs. Dotterweich was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The certificate which she brought from England was deposited in Old Zion Church.

The funeral will be held tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock from the residence, 915 North Seventh.