OBIT: Susan (BRAUCHER) LENHART, 1947, native of Somerset County, PA

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SUSAN B. LENHART

  Mrs. Susan Braucher Lenhart, widow of Marcellus Lenhart, died Saturday 
morning, April 26, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Ravenscraft, at Sand 
Patch.
  A daughter of the late Gillian and Sarah (Suder) Braucher, she was born in 
Somerset County, August 20, 1857.  She was aged 89 years, 8 months and 6 days at 
the time of her death.
  Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Ravenscroft, mentioned above; Mrs. Charles 
Beal and Mrs. Milton Beachley, both of Pittsburgh; a son, Harvey B. Lenhart, 
Somerset; two brothers, William and Samuel Braucher, Somerset; a sister, Mrs. 
Adeline Swearman, Meyersdale; 19 grandchildren and a number of great-
grandchildren.
  Friends were received at the Price Funeral Home until 1:30 Monday afternoon 
when the body was placed in state at the Meyersdale Church of the Brethren, 
where services were held at 2:30 o'clock.
  Rev. J. Ewing Jones, pastor of the Hochstetler Church of the Brethren 
officiated, assisted by Rev. S. Loren Bowman, pastor of the local church.  
Burial was made in Union Cemetery under the direction of W. C. Price & Son.

Meyersdale Republican, May 1, 1947