OBIT: Beverly Waugh BRISCOE, Dr., of interest in Somerset County, PA

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BEVERLY WAUGH BRISCOE

Dr. B. W. Briscoe Succumbs to Long Illness
Ministered to Sick In Rural Communities For Many Years - Laid To Rest at Addison

  ADDISON, Sept. 13 - Dr. Beverly Waugh Briscoe died at his home at Addison, 
Monday evening, September 6, after an illness extending over a three year 
period, suffering from a heart condition and complications.
  He was born near Catonsville, Baltimore County, Md., April 7, 1875, and was 
aged 68 years, 4 months and 29 days.  He was a son of John Augustian and 
Elizabeth Smithson Metee Briscoe, and was a direct descendent of pioneer 
settlers of Maryland.
  He received his early education in the public schools of Baltimore County, and 
later received training as instructor in education in Baltimore City College.  
Later he entered the University of Maryland School of Medicine and was graduated 
in 1903.
  For six months following his graduation, he was resident physician of Bayview 
Hospital, Baltimore, resigning to take up the practice of Medicine at 
Pocahontas.
  Jan. 6, 1904, while practicing at Pocahontas, he was united in marriage to 
Miss Bertha Kaveria Shertzer of Baltimore, who preceded him to the grave on 
March 15, 1905.  To this union was born one child, Mrs. Kaveria Solem, of 
Washington, D.C.
  He was again married on June 2, 1907, to Mary M. Yutzy, who, with the 
following children survive: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Robert) Goering, West Newton; 
John Leonard Briscoe, Uniontown, and Mrs. Nelle Grace (David C.) Cronin, 
Fostoria, Ohio.  One daughter, Anita Evangeline, preceded him to the grave about 
three years ago.
  Dr. Briscoe was the youngest and last survivor of a family of nine.  He was 
engaged in the practice of medicine for more than 37 years, and during that time 
practiced at the following places: Pocahontas, Pa., Grantsville and Accident, 
Md., Markleysburg, Pa., Ridgley, W.Va., and Addison, Pa., the larger part of 
that period in the Addison community.
  He was a consistent church and Sunday school worker, and for nearly twenty 
years was a Sunday school teacher in either Methodist or Lutheran churches in 
the communities in which he lived.
  Dr. Briscoe was of the old school of country physicians, always willing and 
ready to help out the sick and the distressed at all hours of the day or night, 
and pushed himself without considering his own comfort and health during the 
long hard winters, to bring help to those in need.
  Funeral services were conducted at the family home at Addison on Thursday, 
Sept. 9th, with Rev. James S. Shannon, pastor of the Addison Lutheran Church, 
officiating, assisted by Rev. Mrs. Mary G. Richey of the Addison Methodist 
Church.  Interment in Addison Cemetery, in charge of Harry B. Rishebarger, 
funeral director.
  The floral tributes filled the room to overflowing, and were very beautiful.  
Among those from a distance who attended the obsequies were: Wm. B. Chambers, 
Baltimore; Mrs. George Morrison, Philadelphia; Mrs. C. A. Bender, Mrs. Ida 
Hershberger, Mrs. Hobart Speicher, Mrs. D. W. Hershberger, Mr. and Mrs. O. O. 
Bender, Grantsville; Mr. and Mrs. Carl DeVore, Hagerstown; Mr. and Mrs. Ray 
Yutzy, Charles Yutzy, Miss Marie Yutzy, Jack Howe and Raymond Yutzy and family, 
Cumberland; Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Yutzy, Madley; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yutzy and son 
Earl, and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Snyder, Glencoe; Mrs. Sarah B. Goering, West 
Newton; Mr. and Mrs. John L. Briscoe and son, Uniontown; Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. 
Goering, West Newton; Mrs. David C. Cronin, Fostoria, Ohio; Sgt. David C. 
Cronin, U.S. Army, Savannah, Ga.

Meyersdale Republican, September 16, 1943