OBIT: Martha Jane HENDERSON KEPLER, 1889, Blair County, PA

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PASSING AWAY.
Those Who Have Joined the Innumerable Host Beyond the Silent River.

Mrs. Martha Jane Kepler, of this city, died Tuesday forenoon at 9.15
o'clock, at the advanced age of 65 years, 4 months and 15 days.  The
subject of this notice was well known in the centre and northeastern
portion of Blair county.  She was born near Half Moon, in Centre
county, August 24, 1823, and the most of her early life was spent in
and near the village of Stormstown.  She was twice married.  Her first
husband, Rev. William Henderson, was well and favorably known as an
earnest local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in the
southeastern portion of Centre county.  After the death of Mr.
Henderson she was married to Jacob Kepler, a well known farmer of Pine
Grove.  This union was blessed with four children, three of whom are
yet living - William, the eldest, in Westminster, Maryland; Emma, the
wife of David F. Sunderland, of this city, and Miss Myrtle, who also
makes her home with Mr. Sunderland.  After the death of her husband,
some ten years ago, Mrs. Kepler left the old farm in Centre county and
purchased a farm of her own in Sinking Valley, where she resided with
the children some five or six years.  She then sold the farm and
removed to this city, where she had since resided.  Since the marriage
of her daughter Emma to Mr. Sunderland, she had made her home with
them.  At the early age of 15 years Mrs. Kepler became a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and in her active years was one of its
most active and earnest members, never tiring of good works.  At the
time of her decease she was a member of the Eighth Avenue church of
this city.  About four years ago she was stricken with paralysis and
was partially disabled from the effects of it.  About a year ago she
received a second stroke, since which time she had been confined to
her room, but such was her disposition and cheerful Christian spirit
that, notwithstanding her great affliction, none ever heard from
"Mother Kepler" a murmur nor complaint.  On the contrary, she was
always cheerful and full of hope.  On Monday last she was seen to be
growing worse and on Tuesday morning at 9.15 o'clock she peacefully
passed into the rest she had looked forward to and believed in all her
life.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 10, 1889, page 7