OBITUARIES:  SCHWING, Emma Sann; 1905; Stonycreek Twp., Cambria Cnty., PA

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JOHNSTOWN TRIBUNE (Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania)
Tuesday evening, 11 April 1905
page 6, column 4


Mrs. John Schwing.


Emma Sann Schwing, wife of John Schwing, proprietor of the Farmers' Inn Hotel on 
Constable avenue, in Stonycreek Township, died of pulmonary trouble at her home 
between 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in her thirty-first years. Mrs. Schwing had 
been sick for three months.

The deceased was born in Langd. Hessen Darmstdt, (sic) Germany, February 19, 1875, 
being a daughter of Frederick and Mary Sann, who came to America with their family in 
1890 and located in this city. Her parents live on Constable avenue. Mrs. Schwing was a 
sister of Frederick Sann, jr., married and living on Wood street, Seventh Ward; Otto, 
married and living on Horner street; Karl, married and living in Topeka, Kan.; Rudolph, 
Hugo, Tillie, Frieda, and Annie, single and at home; Mary, wife of Conrad Nau, of 
Stonycreek Township, and Kate, widow of Charles Miller, of Grant street, South Side.

On November 3, 1894, Miss Emma Sann and John Schwing were united in marriage in 
this city by the late Rev. Paul Glasow, then pastor of Zion's German Lutheran Church. 
Besides her husband, Mrs. Schwing is survived by four children–Walter, aged nine years; 
Emil, aged five; Hugo, aged three, and Elmer, one year and a half.

The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon, services to be held at the Schwing 
home at 2 o'clock and in Zion's German Lutheran Church at 3 o'clock. The services will 
be in charge of the Rev. Hugo R. Erdmann. Interment will be made in Grand-View 
Cemetery. Mrs. Schwing was a member of the German Lutheran Church and also of the 
Ladies' Sewing Society connected with the church.