OBIT: Mary Elizabeth (Knable) BRIDIGUM, 1932, vicinity of Gebharts and New 
Centerville, Somerset County, PA

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MARY ELIZABETH KNABLE BRIDIGUM

  Mary Elizabeth Knable, daughter of Hiram and Joanna Laub Knable, was born Nov. 
14, 1870, died Nov. 14, 1932, at the age of 62 years.  She was united in 
marriage to Lewis H. Bridigum in 1893.  To this union one daughter was born - 
Mrs. Harry Spangler.
  Mrs. Bridigum spent her entire life in the vicinity of Gebharts and New 
Centerville.  Left an orphan at almost her infancy, by the death of her mother, 
she was cared for by a pious old grandmother on the paternal side, who was a 
member of the Church of the Brethren, commonly known as the Dunkard church, and 
whose teachings by their very simplicity made a deep impression upon her 
religious nature.  Early in life she united with the Reformed congregation at 
New Centerville, of which she was a lifelong member.
  Mrs. Bridigum was possessed of a robust constitution and was an untiring 
worker for the best interests of her family.  She is survived by one daughter, 
her husband and five grandsons and one brother, Rev. J. C. Knable, of Kutztown, 
Pa.
  Mrs. Bridigum had no warning of the approaching end; it came suddenly Sunday 
evening when an attack of acute indigestion overtook her and ere morning beams 
of the rising sun lit up the eastern horizon, her spirit winged its flight into 
the eternal realm.  Her death was caused great sorrow.
  In July of this year her only brother, as well as the last of the Knable name, 
visited her, and as they parted the brother said: "Farewell, it may be the last 
time," and it was the last time for her.
  Is she dead or is she alive, now more than ever?  It is not a fancy to believe 
that the dead are the living; not a fancy to believe that the corpse laid away 
so beautifully and so tenderly is but the husk which enshrined her spirit, and 
death but set it free to soar untrammeled to its Father - God.
  Funeral services were held in the Bridigum home Nov. 17, 1932, with Rev. A. S. 
Kresge, pastor of Rockwood charge, assisted by Rev. Logsdon of DuBois, a former 
pastor, and Pastor Hamilton of the Church of the Brethren, a former friend and 
neighbor, in charge. 
          J. C. Knable

Meyersdale Republican, December 15, 1932