OBIT: Jane K. SENSENY, 1896, Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Mrs. Jane K. Senseny died at her home on East Market street about ten o'clock 
Tuesday morning.  Mrs. Senseny was born in this place November 21st, 1815, and 
was the eldest daughter of Wm. S. and Joanna Kirby Davis.  In 1838 she married 
Dr. Abram H. Senseny, for many years one of our leading physicians.  Of their 
children three sons, William D., B. Rush and Edgar N. were physicians, all of 
whom died in the prime of life.  Mrs. Wm. M. McKnight, of town, and Mrs. A. L. 
Gardner, of Baltimore, are surviving daughters and Mrs. Rosalie Senseny a 
daughter-in-law.  Mrs. Senseny is survived by two brothers, Thomas K. Davis, of 
Wooster, Ohio, and Robert S. Davis, Pittsburg, the latter of whom is now in 
Europe.  She was the oldest member of the Falling Spring church and a woman of 
sterling character, strong mind and upright nature.


People's Register, Chambersburg, PA, August 14, 1896