OBIT: Susan (WISSEMAN) HERSHBERGER, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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SUSAN WISSEMAN HERSHBERGER

Grantsville, Maryland

  Relatives here received word last week of the death of Mrs. Susan Wisseman 
Hershberger, widow of the late Gideon Hershberger, which occurred at her home at 
Greenwood, Del., Thursday night, January 9.  She was 75 years of age.  She had 
been ill only a few days and her death was attributed to a heart ailment 
together with complications due to her age.
  Mrs. Hershberger was a former resident of this section, having been born on 
Negro Mountain, a few miles west of here.  For some time she resided in the New 
Germany section, where she was well known, but for a number of years has made 
her home in Delaware.
  Three sisters and two brothers survive.  They are Mrs. Lydia Miller and Mrs. 
A. M. Ringer, Grantsville, Miss Amanda Wisseman, who resided with her sister at 
Greenwood, C. C. Wisseman, Fort Hill.  Miss Amanda Wisseman expects to move to 
Grantsville shortly to make her home with Mrs. Miller and other relatives.
  Mrs. Lydia Miller, C. C. Wisseman, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jones and family, Misses 
Leona and Wilma Miller and Martin Miller went to Greenwood to attend the funeral 
services which were held there Sunday.  Interment was in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, January 16, 1941