OBIT: Christiann BRENNER, 1881, Fredericksburg, Blair County, PA

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CORRESPONDENCE.

  Typhoid fever at Fredericksburg increases rather than decreases.  
Four deaths from that fatal disease have occurred in the family of 
Martin Hoover, three children and a nephew.  Will Acker, an account of 
whose death appeared in Monday's edition of the TRIBUNE and this 
(Wednesday) afternoon Mrs. Levi Brenner, sister to M. H., passed over 
the flood, leaving a young babe.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, May 26, 1881

  Typhoid fever is still carrying on its work of destruction.  On 
Thursday Mrs. Benner, one of Fredericksburg's most accomplished ladies, 
was buried.  Mrs. Benner had been ill but a short time, and was a woman 
yet in the springtime of life, having been married only about two 
years.  She leaves a sorrowing husband and an infant about six months 
old to mourn her loss.  But their loss is her eternal gain, as she was 
a devout Christian, and had made all necessary preparations for death 
previous to her sickness.  We can truly say with the poet, "Death rides 
on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower."  The funeral 
services were conducted by Revs. G. W. and J. W. Brumbaugh, from the 
words, "All flesh is grass and the glory thereof as the flower of 
grass."

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, May 28, 1881

1880 Fredericksburg, Blair County census -
Levi Benner, 22 
Christiann Benner, 23