Miscellaneous:  Orphaned Children, Fayette County, PA

Copyright © 1998 by Donna Allen, cherokee@cftnet.com

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Children Orphaned

Elijah Murray and his wife, Hannah, (Minerd), are both dead, leaving six or seven small 
children fatherless and motherless in this vale of tears. The mother, on the 13th day of 
May, at the age of 39 years, 11 months and 15 days, left a babe one day old. Her husband 
was lying with typhoid fever, and his bereavement in his low condition terminated in his 
death on the 28th, just eight days afterward. He had just passed his 4th milestone, being 
four weeks her senior in age.

The dual calamity is keenly felt in this community, and we can but commit the poor 
parentless orphans to the tender care of the Good Shepherd who tempers the bleak winds 
to the shorn lambs, and that they may find kind welcome into good households.

Food, clothing and shelter is the Savior’s injunction. The two funerals were largely 
attended by a large and sympathetic concourse of people.

The remains were interred in the United Brethren Cemetery at Springfield (Normalville) 
to await the resurrection of the just.



An item most likely printed in the Connellsville Courier