OBIT: Anna Elizabeth (Strube) KEIDEL, 1916, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Keidel, Anna Elizabeth

"Anna Elizabeth Keidel" nee Strube, widow of the late John William Keidel of 
Olinger Street, died at 4:30 a. m. September 1st at the age of 66 years, 8 
months and 3 days. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon a German service 
was conducted at the house and an English one in the church after burial. These 
services were conducted by her pastor Rev. A. E. Truxal D. D. of Amity Reformed 
Church. Her earthly remains were laid by the side of those of her husband in the 
Reformed Cemetery. Mrs. Keidel was born in Seifertshausen, Kreis Rothenberg, 
Germany December 29, 1849. She was baptized in infancy and in her youth 
confirmed in the faith as a full member of the church. Having arrived at 
womanhood she was married to John W. Keidel, a young man of the same place. Four 
children were born to them in their native country, two of them, however dying 
in infancy. In 1882 the parents with their two remaining children, a daughter 
and a son, emigrated to this country and located in Meyersdale where they have 
resided ever since. The past twenty-five years they lived in their home on 
Olinger Street. One child was born to them in this country. About ten years 
after their arrival in Meyersdale their only son died.  In 1902 Mr. Keidel the 
husband and father also died after a very brief illness. Mrs. Keidel's health 
had not been very robust the past several years, and a few weeks ago she became 
seriously ill and passed gently away last Friday morning leaving two daughters 
Miss Kate and Mrs. Glenn Crowe to mourn her reparture[sic]. She belonged to a 
family of five children all of whom have now passed to the world beyond with the 
exception of one sister, supposed to be living in Germany. The family soon after 
their arrival in Meyersdale became members of Amity Reformed Church of which 
Mrs. Keidel remained a faithful member to the day of her death. Mrs. Keidel was 
a woman of positive disposition one could always tell where she stood on any 
question in which she was interested. She was characterized especially by her 
loyal spirit. She was loyal to her friends, loyal to her family, loyal to her 
church, loyal to the land and people from whence she came, and loyal to the land 
and people in which she lived and among whom she had her home. She belonged to 
the large number of Germans who settled in this community before and immediately 
after the Civil War in the sixties of the last century. Only a few of the older 
ones of these people remain, but their children and children's children are in 
our midst in large numbers among them being some of the best citizens of this 
town and community. Some belong to the leading merchants of this place. Some are 
graduates from our college and occupy positions of trust, some are teachers in 
our public schools and the large majority of them are members in the various 
churches of the community.

Meyersdale Commercial, Sept. 7, 1916