Somerset County PA Archives Obituaries.....Countryman, Mary Catharine May 12, 1880 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 July 8, 2023, 12:47 pm The Somerset herald. (Somerset, Pa.): May 26, 1880 Wednesday, May 12, 1880, at her residence, near Lavansville, Mary Catharine, wife of Benjamin Countryman, aged 86 years, 3 months and 11 days. Mrs. Countryman was a daughter of Rev. Long, one of the first Lutheran ministers of Somerset county. She was confirmed by her father at the age of fourteen, was married to Mr. Countryman at the age of twenty, and was an affectionate wife and a faithful mother for more than sixty years… She leaves her old and feeble companion and four sons and two daughters to mourn her loss. The God of all comfort, comfort their hearts. The funeral sermon was preached by the pastor, from 2 Cor. 5 : 1, and the remains were interred in the cemetery at Lavansville. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/obits/c/countrym20082gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb