OBIT: Catharine (Arnold) Brough, 1913, Adams County, PA

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Mrs. Andrew Brough

After a long illness from infirmities due to old age, there departed from this 
life, on Monday, June 30th, the spirit of Catharine Arnold Brough, widow of the 
late Andrew Brough, and mother of John H. Brough.  Her aged was 87 years and 5 
months.

“Grandma Brough,” as she was familiarly known by a host of friends, was the 
daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Kaufman) Arnold.  On January 17, 1850, she married 
Andrew Brough, of East Berlin.  To this union where born two children, John H. 
Brough and Catharine Alice Brough.  The daughter preceded her to the “Great 
Beyond” 23 years ago and her husband 15 years ago, since which time she resided 
in Hanover.  One son and his family are the only direct descendants to them, she 
leaves the legacy of an abiding Christian faith.

She was familiar with the Bible and its promises were very precious to her 
during life, and enduring to the end.  Before sinking into a coma from which she 
never aroused, her last words on earth were to her son assuring him that she 
“was falling asleep in Jesus.”  Her end was so peaceful that the watchers by her 
bedside could scarcely tell when the last vital spark fled.

Funeral Thursday, July 3d, brief services at her late residence, No. 300 East 
Middle street, at 9 a.m., Rev. W. M. Wine, former President of Blue Ridge 
College, officiating.  Interment and further services at Mummert’s Meeting 
house, near East Berlin.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, July 5, 1913