OBIT: Barbara GRASS, 1920, Martinsburg, Blair County, PA

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MRS. BARBARA GRASS

  Mrs. Barbara Grass, wife of Cephas H. Grass, died suddenly and
unexpectedly at her home here on Julian street on Sunday morning at 3
o'clock.  Death was due to chronic myocarditis.
  Deceased was a life long resident of this place.  She was the 
daughter of W. S. and Elizabeth Breidenthal and was born near
Martinsburg March 30, 1846.  On January 27, 1885, she was united in
marriage to Cephas H. Grass.  Her sudden death was a great shock to
many friends who believed her to be in reasonable good health.
  Mrs. Grass was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at this
place and a teacher of the Beginners class in the Sunday school for
many years.  She was faithful in attendance and will be missed in the
church and Sunday school as well as the community.
  Besides the husband she is survived by the following brother and
sisters:  E. G. Breidenthal, Mrs. Martha Trout and Misses Maggie and
Mary Bridenthal.
  Funeral services were conducted at the church Wednesday afternoon at
2.30 o'clock by her pastor, Rev. C. B. Littleton.  Interment in
Fairview cemetery.

Martinsburg Herald, Handwritten date of May 14, 1920