OBIT: Sarah E. GNAGEY, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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SARAH E. GNAGEY

  A telegram from Miss Effie Schrock, Pasadena, Cal., to W. S. Livengood, senior 
editor of The Republican, brought him the sad news that his aged first cousin, 
Miss Sarah E. Gnagey, passed away on New Year's Day, as a result of a fall in 
her room on the evening of Dec. 22, that fractured one of her hips.  She was 
taken to a hospital for x-ray examination and treatment and had an operation on 
the fractured hip.  But it all proved too much for her endurance and she 
peacefully passed away on January 1st.
  She was born at Cove, Garrett County, Md, 7 April 1855, and was in the 90th 
year of her age.  She was the second daughter and last survivor of the nine 
children of Emanuel and Eliza (Livengood) Gnagey.  Most of her young life was 
spent on her father's farm at Grantsville, Md., now known as the Sam Hershberger 
farm.
  In September, 1887, she and her older sister, Miss Mary Gnagey, became 
residents of Pasadena, where she lived happily for more than 57 years.  She and 
her sister were joined there later by their mother, after the death of their 
father many years ago, and by their younger sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Schrock and 
her four children, after the death of Mrs. Schrock's husband, Benjamin Schrock, 
of Aurora, W.Va.
  After the death of her mother and sister Mary, many years ago, Miss Sarah 
lived alone until about a year ago when her health failed and her niece, Miss 
Effie Schrock persuaded her to share her home where she was tenderly cared for 
by her devoted niece, Miss Schrock, who is a domestic science teacher in the 
Pasadena schools, has a very beautiful and cozy home at 169 South Catalina 
Avenue, Pasadena, where she cared for her aged mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Schrock 
during her declining years.  Mrs. Schrock who was the third of the Gnagey 
sisters passed away several years ago.
  Sarah Gnagey and her sisters were devout members of the Church of the Brethren 
and were among the organizing builders of a church of that denomination located 
near Miss Sarah's home, which is now a large and prosperous congregation.
  Others of her family besides her sisters Mary and Elizabeth, who preceded 
Sarah in death, were her youngest sister, Fanny (Mrs. Jonas Hershberger) of 
Stone House (Little Meadows) Farm, near Grantsville, Md., and brother John E. 
(father of J. Milton Gnagey of Meyersdale) who died at a ripe age some years 
ago; Jonas E., (father of the well known Gnagey family consisting of eight 
sisters and eight brothers, born in Grantsville) who died several years ago at 
the age of 90; A. Lincoln Gnagey, a former Grantsville merchant, and Charles and 
Edward, who died in infancy.

Meyersdale Republican, January 4, 1945