OBIT: Mrs. Matilda CHAMBERS, 1913, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Chambers, Matilda

Mrs. Matilda Chambers, wife of Charles Chambers of Salisbury Street, died on 
Friday of heart trouble and dropsy at the Markleton Sanitarium. Sunday a week 
ago she was taken to the sanitarium with the hope that she would get the needed 
help and recover her health speedily. Her remains were brought to Meyersdale, 
and the funeral services were conducted at her home on Saturday evening by her 
pastor, Rev. G. A. Neeld. Her remains were taken to Houtzdale, Clearfield County 
where interment took place on Monday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, when Rev. Mr. 
Mitchell of the Presbyterian Church officiated. She was aged 42 years, 11 months 
and 19 days. She is survived by her husband and four children as follows: James 
of Pittsburg, Marion Love, Charles and Chester at home. The three youngest 
children are enrolled in the Meyersdale schools. Marion Love is a member of the 
present senior class of the high school. Charles is at present a typhoid fever 
patient. Three children died in infancy and are buried in Clearfield County. 
Mrs. Chambers was a member of a large family of children. Mrs. Harry Calhoun of 
Berlin is her sister. She has a brother and sister in Pittsburg, a brother and 
sister at Houtzdale, and a brother and sister in Phillipsburg, this state. Mr. 
Chambers, hom[sic] is unusually afflicted and discouraged. Much sympathy is felt 
for the family.

Meyersdale Commercial, Sept. 18, 1913