Fayette County PA Archives Obituaries.....Overholt, Elizabeth Stauffer October 
21, 1887
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Herald of Truth, Vol. XXIV, No. 23, Dec. 1, 1887, pp 365-365
   Elizabeth (Staufer) Overholt was born in Fayette county, Pa, Feb. 19th, 
1774, and died at the home of her son in Fostoria, Ohio, Oct. 21st, 1887, aged 
93 years, 8 months and 2 days. With her husband she came to Ohio, and settled 
near Fostoria in 1857. He preceded her a number of years, to the Spirit world. 
She was the mother of six children, four of whom survive her; of her 
descendants there are 33 grandchildren, 59 great grandchildren, and two great-
great-grand-children. She was a member of the Mennonite church for eighty 
years, and though her children became members of the United Brethren church, 
and have proved most efficient workers therein, she continued in the communion 
of the old Church to the end. Hers was a marked life. She was a woman of more 
than ordinary mind, and held to the end the characteristics, which made her 
what she was. She was of more than ordinary piety, and lived in close 
communion with God. For a number of years she was afflicted, but bore all 
patiently and without a murmur. All that loving hearts and hands could do to 
smoothen the pathway was hers, and as we laid her away we felt that a tie that 
bound us to the century past was gone, gone out not forever, gone to await our 
coming and to welcome us to that fair land.

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