OBIT: Emma (RUPP) BARNHART, 1949, native of Somerset County, PA

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EMMA BARNHART

  Mrs. Emma Rupp Barnhart, wife of the Rev. Dr. John L. Barnhart, departed this 
life at her home, 3408 Edgewood Rd., Baltimore, Md., Monday, Nov. 28.
  The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Rupp, she was born in Berlin, Pa., Sept. 
27, 1873.  In her young womanhood she taught school in Meyersdale for five 
years.  September 27, 1898, she was married to the Rev. John L. Barnhart in the 
chapel of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pa., by 
her father, a professor at that institution. 
  During the long ministry of her husband, for more than 45 years, she was very 
active in Sunday School and church, not only in her local congregations, but 
also in her denomination.  For four years she was president of the Woman's 
Missionary Society of St. Paul's Classis of Pittsburgh Synod of the Reformed 
Church.  After coming to Baltimore in 1910, she was the first acting president 
of the Woman's Missionary Society of Maryland Classis organized in 1914, and 
served as president three years.
  In 1931 she was elected president of the Woman's M.S. of the Synod of the 
Potomac, and filled that office three years.  She became president of the W.M.S. 
of Baltimore-Washington Classis in 1938.  Several times she was a delegate to 
General Synod's Missionary Society.  Much of the time she was president of the 
society of her own congregation.
  Dr. and Mrs. Barnhart celebrated their Golden Wedding September 27, 1948.
  Besides her husband Mrs. Barnhart is survived by a daughter, Louise Gertrude, 
wife of Jesse Spangler, M.D., Kokomo, Ind.; a son, the Rev. William Rupp 
Barnhart, D.D., head of the department of Philosophy and Religion at Hood 
College; by six grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Viola R. Master, Allentown, Pa., 
and a brother, Col. Paul Rupp, San Antonio, Texas, a retired Army chaplain.
  Funeral services were held Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m., in Messiah 
Evangelical and Reformed Church, Baltimore, of which her husband was pastor, the 
Rev. Frank K. Bostian, officiating.  Interment in Union Cemetery at Greensburg, 
Pa., Thursday, at 4:45 p.m.
  The last time Mrs. Barnhart was in Meyersdale was May 12, 1946, when her 
husband preached at the dedication of the chimes of Amity Evangelical and 
Reformed Church.

Meyersdale Republican, December 1, 1949