OBIT: Sarah (SMITH) TROSTLE, 1899, McAllistersville, Juniata County, PA
  
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  MRS. SARAH TROSTLE.
  
    At 7.40 o'clock last evening Mrs. Sarah Trostle, of McAllistersville, 
  Juniata county, died suddenly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Perry 
  L. Grubb, 827 Fourth avenue, of diseases incident to old age.  Deceased 
  was visiting her daughter and came to this city last Tuesday.  She 
  contracted a cold on her journey here and yesterday morning was taken 
  suddenly ill and continued to sink rapidly until she passed into the 
  great beyond.  Her maiden name was Smith and she was born at 
  McAllistersville, May 27, 1827.  She was twice married.  In 1844 she 
  married David Hostetler, and of this union the following children 
  survive: Mrs. Elizabeth Grubb, Altoona; Mrs. Maggie Stroup, Oriental, 
  Juniata county; Mrs. J. B. Bardo, Montoursville; Mrs. David W. Smith, 
  Gageville, O.; Mrs. James McKnight, McAllistersville; John A. 
  Hostetler, Wooster, O., and David Hostetler, of McAllistersville.  
  After the death of Mr. Hostetler she married Andrew Trostle, who 
  preceded her to the grave.  One daughter, Mrs. Samuel Gingrich, of 
  McAllistersville, survives as do also two sisters, Mrs. Martha 
  Snowberger, of Curryville, Blair county, and Mrs. Barbara Hostetler, of 
  McAllistersville, and one brother, Samuel B. Smith, of Bradford, Ohio.  
  Mrs. Trostle was a devout Christian woman and a life long member of the 
  Brethren church.  Funeral services will be conducted at the home of her 
  daughter, Mrs. Grubb, this evening.  The remains will be taken to 
  McAllistersville Wednesday morning for interment.
       [Juniata county papers please copy.]
  
  Morning Tribune, Altoona, Tuesday, November 7, 1899