OBIT: Lavina LIVENGOOD, 1931, Addison Township, Somerset County, PA

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LAVINA LIVENGOOD

  Mrs. Lavina Livengood died at the family home in Addison Township, Somerset 
County, on Thursday morning, Feb. 5th, after a short illness.  She was suddenly 
taken ill on the Tuesday before her death.  She was aged 82 years, 6 months and 
11 days, having been born in Addison Township on July 25, 1848.  Her maiden name 
was Lavina Enos.  In her young womanhood she married Mahlon Livengood who died 
in 1906.
  Two sons preceded her to the grave.  The surviving children are:  Calvin H., 
Henry and Lewis Livengood, Mary Livengood, Mrs. Annie Gower, Mrs. Etta Matthews, 
and Mrs. Ollie Tressler, all of whom reside in the section of Addison Township 
in which the family home was located.  She is also survived by a number of 
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.  All her brothers and sisters 
preceded her to the grave.
  She was a member of the Reformed Church since girlhood and a sincere christian 
woman whose long life was useful and well spent.  Funeral services were held in 
the Silbaugh Church on Saturday, February 7, Rev. H. W. Jamison of Confluence 
officiating.  Interment was made in the Silbaugh Cemetery.  The pallbearers were 
the three sons above mentioned and three grandsons, Percy Livengood, Paul 
Matthews and Mahlon Gower.  Undertaker C. B. Humbert of Confluence had charge of 
funeral arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, February 12, 1931