OBIT: Susan (ROYER) REIGART, 1881, formerly of Blair County, PA

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DEATH'S DOINGS.
Death of Mrs. Susan Reigart, Formerly of this County, at Des Moines, 
Iowa.

  Dr. E. H. Reigart, of Des Moines, Iowa, writes to a friend in this 
city of the death of his mother, Mrs. Susan Reigart, which sad event 
occurred at that place on the morning of the 7th inst., at the 
residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J. F. Kennedy.  This will be sad and 
painful intelligence to the many relatives and friends of this 
excellent Christian lady in this city and elsewhere in this county.  
Mrs. Reigart was in the 78th year of her age, having been born in the 
county of Franklin, this State, in 1802.  She was one of the few 
survivors of a large family, many of whom were of the early settlers of 
the southern part of this county.  Only one - John Royer, Esq., of Cove 
Forge - of the old stock remains in the vicinity; but the descendants 
of the family are quite numerous.  Mrs. Reigart removed from 
Williamsburg to Tipton, Iowa, with her husband, the late Henry Reigart, 
and his family in 1856, where she continued to reside until the death 
of her husband in 1874, since which time she has resided with her son-
in-law in Des Moines.  About six weeks since she was attacked with 
congestion of the lungs, and continued to grow worse and worse until 
Saturday morning last, when she sank peacefully to rest in the full 
assurance of that faith which had supported and comforted her through a 
long life.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, January 12, 1881