OBIT: Rebecca (CROYL) FERRY, 1907, Flowing Spring, Blair County, PA

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MRS. REBECCA C. FERRY

  Thursday morning, May 2, Mrs. Rebecca Croyl Ferry, wife of David B. 
Ferry, near Flowing Spring, Blair county, departed this life.  She was 
born near Bedford, June 29, 1842, and was at the time of her death aged 
64 years, 10 months and three days.  The cause of her death was heart 
trouble, with dropsical complications, and her death occurred without 
any suffering, though her sufferings were great during her illness.  
Mrs. Ferry was very well known and had a host of friends throughout 
Bedford county and the southern end of Blair county.
  Mrs. Ferry had been a member of the Reformed church all her life, and 
lived and died in a blessed faith in her Redeemer.  She leaves to mourn 
her death, a loving husband and nine children, as follows: Mrs. Cora 
Crum of Gaysport, Mrs. Mary Smith of Piney Creek, near Martinsburg; 
Elmer Ferry of near Roaring Spring, Job Ferry of near Martinsburg, Mrs. 
Grace Neal of Lakemont, Clara, Gertrude, DeWarren and Charles Ferry at 
home.  Funeral services were held at Williamsburg Saturday afternoon; 
interment in Presbyterian cemetery at that place.

Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pa., Friday, May 10, 1907