OBIT: Elizabeth (BURNS) SELL, 1930, Freedom Township, Blair County, PA

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MRS. ELIZABETH SELL

Widow of Rev. Brice Sell, for many years a well known minister of the 
Church of the Brethren in Blair county, died at 10.20 o'clock Saturday 
night at her home in Freedom township, near Leamersville, of a 
complication of diseases after several weeks' illness. She was born in 
Taylor township, Aug. 23, 1844, a daughter of Thomas and Catherine 
Burns, and was the last of a family of eight children. She was united 
in marriage with Rev. Sell on Sept. 28, 1868, and was the mother of 
nine children. Surviving are three sons and two daughters, Daniel M. 
Sell and Mrs. Gloria Powell of the city; Stephen H. Sell of Roaring 
Spring; Edgar Sell of Freedom township and Mrs. Arvilla Leonard, who 
resides on the old home farm where the aged Mrs. Sell also lived. 
Thirty-four grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren also 
survive. Mrs. Sell was a member of the Church of the Brethren for sixty 
years. The funeral cortege will leave the late home at 2 o'clock 
tomorrow afternoon for the Carson Valley Church of the Brethren where 
funeral services will be held with Rev. Galen B. Royer, D.D., of 
Johnstown, and Rev. J. Q. Showalter of Newry officiating. Interment 
will be made in the Carson Valley cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, December 8, 1930, p. 30, column 1