OBIT: Mrs. Elizabeth KEGG, 1900, Mench, Bedford County, PA

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Mrs. Elizabeth Kegg   

Mrs. Elizabeth Kegg died at her home in Mench last Friday, passing from life to 
death as gently as one falling asleep.  She was born in Cumberland
Valley, where she spent her girlhood days. She married Sebastian Kegg, of 
Friend's Cove, where they resided for several years.  From thence, they moved 
to Mench, where they spent the remainder of their life.  Mr. Kegg preceded her 
to the great beyond about twenty-two years ago.  Mrs. Kegg died at the ripe old 
age of eight-seven years, one month and twenty-three days.  In early life, she 
connected herself with the Christian church and through her whole life was a 
devout Christian.  The church has lost one of its regular and reverential 
members, the community, a kind neighbor and loving friend. One of her greatest
ambitions was to see that the poor and needy were taken care of.  She was a 
model woman in all that the word implies.  She was the mother of twelve 
children.  Seven preceded her to the spirit world.  She leaves to survive
her two sisters: Mrs. John R. Jordan, of Bedford; Mrs. William Speaker,
of Alliance, Ohio, one brother, Josiah Zembower, of Mench, and the following
children:  Mrs. David Calhoun, Mrs. Simon Bussard, Levi Kegg, Solomon Kegg and 
Mrs. Samuel Morris, all of whom reside in the immediate vicinity of Mench. She 
is also survived by thirty grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren. The 
funeral service was conducted by Rev. J. R. Logue in the Mount Union church.
Interment in the cemetery adjoining the church.  "Blessed are the dead that die 
in the Lord." 
W. F. B.

Bedford Gazette 2/2/1900