OBIT: Christina (SHELOW) BOOKHAMER, 1888, Huston Township, Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF AN AGED LADY.

Mrs. Christina Bookhamer, Springfield Mines, Pa.

  On Monday, October 8th, Mrs. Christina Bookhamer, mother of our townsman, 
closed a long and interesting life, at the Mines, aged about 94 years.  Her 
husband, Jacob Bookhamer, preceded her, having died in 1850.  Mother 
Bookhamer's maiden name was Shelow, and she was born in the neighborhood of 
Petersburg, Huntingdon county, Pa., about the year 1794.  She was the mother 
of 11 children, 7 of whom are living, 4 sons and 3 daughters.  She also 
leaves behind 67 grandchildren, 21 great-grand-children and 1 great-great-
grand child.
  On Wednesday, all that was mortal of Mrs. Bookhamer, was laid to rest, 
peacefully, in the family lot of her son, James Bookhamer, in Fairview 
Cemetery, in this place.  Rev. Colburn, of Williamsburg, of the M. E. 
church, of which the deceased was a member for many years, performed the 
religious services on this sad occasion.
  Thus, one by one our old fathers and mother, who had been born and lived 
in a century that is past, are joining the great majority, in that land from 
whence none has ever returned.

Martinsburg Herald, October 11, 1888