OBIT: John ELLENBERGER, Sr., 1891, Ferguson Township, Centre County, PA

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  John Ellenberger, sr., born in Mifflin county, September 1, 1802, 
died at his home, where he has resided for some sixty-eight years, in 
Ferguson township, near Stormstown, Centre county, Monday, March 2, at 
1 o'clock, aged 88 years, 6 months and 1 day.  Funeral service was held 
in the Lutheran church at Gatesburg, of which he was a consistent 
member, at 10 o'clock a.m. Wednesday, March 4, which was largely 
attended.  Interment afterwards in the cemetery adjoining.  He is 
survived in the immediate family by four sons and three daughters - 
William, Samuel and Isaac, of Gatesburg, Centre, and John, of Sinking 
Valley, Blair county; Mrs. Betsie Gates, Mrs. Mary Ann Rider and Mrs. 
Emiline Gates, all of Gatesburg, Centre county.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, March 9, 1891