OBIT: Henry GUMBERT, 1916, Pine Hill, Somerset County, PA

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Gumbert, Henry

  Henry Gumbert, for 25 years a merchant and postmaster at Pine Hill passed 
quietly to his reward at an early hour on the morning of the 17st inst. aged 70 
years, 8 months and 27 days. Deceased had been in ill health for some months, 
suffering from a complication of disease incident to a man of his age. For the 
past several weeks he had been bedfast and he grew gradually weaker until death 
ensued. Henry Gumbert was a son of Jacob Gumbert, who was born and married in 
Germany, removing to America after the birth of his eldest son. Deceased was 
born on the old Gumbert homestead near Pine Hill, now occupied by his son, W. J. 
Gumbert, and spent his entire life in that immediate vicinity. His wife, Anna 
Brant survives him as do Wilson J., Misses Sadie and Lizzie. The deceased was a 
devout member of the German Lutheran Church from youth until in later years the 
two churches combined. He served his congregation in various official 
capacities, and was looked up to by his friends and neighbors as an upright, 
conscientious man. The funeral occurred on 19th inst. afternoon at 2 o'clock. In 
the absence of his pastor, the Rev. W. H. B. Carney, who is at the bedside of 
his aged mother, the Rev. H. B. Burkholder, of Trinity Lutheran Church, Berlin, 
conducted the services. Interment was made in the Pine Hill Cemetery. The 
obsequies were attended by a large concourse of friends who sorrowfully paid 
their last respects to the deceased.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 26, 1916