OBIT: Sarah Catherine (LAYMAN) DURST, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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SARAH CATHERINE DURST

Grantsville, Maryland

  Mrs. Sarah Catherine Durst died at her home near Avilton about 10 o'clock 
Wednesday night, April 17, after an illness of some three weeks.  Her health had 
been failing for several months and her death was attributed to a heart 
condition and complications due to her years.
  Mrs. Durst was aged 74 years, 8 months and 25 days.  A daughter of Anthony and 
Elizabeth (Poleman) Layman, she was born at Shade Mills, a few miles east of 
here, July 22, 1866, on a farm near the home where she died.  Her entire life 
was spent in this section of the county.  Her parents, and their parents before 
them, were all natives of the county and resided on this farm which had been in 
possession of the family for approximately two hundred years.  Mrs. Durst was 
the widow of M. Wesley Durst, who died April 8, 1931.  They had been married for 
fifty-five years.  She had been a faithful and devout member of the Mount Zion 
Methodist Church for many years and attended services regularly until ill health 
prevented.
  In her passing Mrs. Durst leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lacy Steele, Lonaconing, 
and Mrs. Lulu Warne, at home, eight sons, Marshall Durst and Ira Durst, Chicago, 
Ill.; Harry Durst, Johnstown, Pa.; Charles Durst, Long Stretch; Pierce, 
Sheridan, George and Norman Durst, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Linnie Chaney, 
Avilton, Mrs. Lulu Mulligan, Cumberland; four brothers, Albert Layman, 
Frostburg; Marx Layman, Jennings; Lewis Layman, Avilton, and Richard Layman, 
Grantsville, and ten grandchildren.
  Funeral services were held from the home at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, with 
the Rev. A. C. Bell, a former pastor, officiating.  Interment was in the Mt. 
Zion Cemetery, under the direction of William Winterberg, local mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, April 24, 1941