Sarah [Irving] Fotheringill (1848-1925) was a prominent community leader and businesswoman in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1908.
In article from a special Souvenir Edition of the Lykens Standard, March 13, 1908, obtained via Newspapers.com, her green grocer business was described.
MRS. SARAH FOTHERINGILL – Green Groceries, Fruit, etc.
In the lately-remodeled Myers’ building on Main Street… will be found a well-equipped green grocery and canned goods store successfully managed by a lady who, on account of the ill health of her husband, was compelled to assume the task of providing the necessaries of life for the family – Mrs. Sarah Fotheringill. From a small beginning, one line after another has been added until today when all kinds of fruit is in season, country produce, confectionery, tobacco, cigars, etc., in addition to the regular line of canned goods, are kept in stock. She also has the exclusive agency in this section for the celebrated Sindia Oil for rheumatism, sprains, bruises, etc., and quite a thriving business n this line. As an example of feminine grit and energy she has few equals and is certainly deserving of success.
_____________________________________________
Sarah [Irving] Fotheringill died January 23, 1925, in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Her obituary [Lykens Standard, January 30, 1925] notes that after her husband, Joseph W. Fotheringill (1946-1923), died, she married Franklin E. Fisher (1843-1932) who survived her. Both husbands were Civil War veterans as was her surviving brother, William Irving (1841-1935).
MRS. SARAH FOTHERINGILL
Mrs. Sarah Fotheringill-Fisher, aged 76 years, 10 months and 20 days, died at the Homepathic Hospital, Reading, Friday last week after an illness of about three months. She was a resident of Lykens for 43 years, having left here 10 years ago.
Nine years ago, she was married to Franklin E. Fisher, who survives with her brother William Irving of this place [Lykens]; and son John Fotheringill of Reading. The funeral was held Wednesday with services at at Blandon Methodist Episcopal Church, Reading, after which burial was made in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery that place [Reading].
William Irving, a brother, Mrs. Mary J. Snyder and Mrs. William Blanning, nieces, and George Ramsey, a nephew, of this place [Lykens], attended the funeral.
______________________________________________________
Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.