OBIT: Matilda (BEACHY) MAUST, 1940, near St. Paul, Somerset County, PA

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MATILDA MAUST

  Mrs. Matilda Maust, wife of Joel Maust, died at her home near St. Paul 
Wednesday afternoon.  She was 81 years of age and appeared to be in 
exceptionally good health considering her advanced years.  She became ill about 
two weeks ago and her death came as a shock to her family and friends.
  Mrs. Maust was born near Aurora, W.Va., January 20, 1859, a daughter of Daniel 
and Elizabeth Yoder Beachy.  She spent her early life there and later came to 
this community where she was employed for several years.
  On January 28, 1894, she became the wife of Joel M. Maust of near Meyersdale, 
Pa., and in this community she shared with him the toils and joys of life.  For 
a period of over thirty years they lived on and operated a farm near St. Paul, 
after which they lived a little more retired lives, first on a small farm near 
Comptons Mill where they lived two years.  They then moved into a house they had 
built on a lot adjoining the old home farm, a few hundred feet from the house in 
which they had lived during the busiest years of their lives.  They lived here 
ten years when her life came to its close.
  In addition to her husband, Mrs. Maust is survived by their four children: 
Iva, wife of Evan J. Miller, R.D. 1, Meyersdale; Allen, of Grantsville, Md.; 
Enos, of Meyersdale R.D. 1, and Fannie, wife of Floyd Miller, Grantsville, Md.;  
one brother, Jacob Beachy, Aurora, W.Va.; four sisters, Misses Leah Beachy and 
Fanny Beachy, Aurora; Mrs. Simon Miller, Springs; Mrs. Katherine Hershberger, 
Salisbury, Pa., and nineteen grandchildren.  Of her immediate family Mrs. Maust 
was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and five sisters.  Her 
father was a bishop in the Amish Mennonite Church.
  Mrs. Maust was a woman of unusual quality and strength of character.  A model 
of modesty and simplicity, she stood firmly for what she believed to be right.  
Although industrious and a good manager in temporal things, she considered 
spiritual things to be of greater importance and in her daily life they was not 
sacrificed for things of secondary value.
  She was much interested in the church and its activities and in her quiet, 
unassuming way did much good.  Virtue and spirituality were her ideals and we 
believe few people more nearly live up to these ideals than she did.  Her 
friendliness, sincerity and loving kindnesses will be sorely missed by those 
near to her.
  She was a very healthy woman, generally until a few weeks before her death 
when her heart began to fail.  Under the doctors care she apparently had been 
improving.  The end came suddenly and with no evidence of pain or discomfort.  
She fell asleep, we believe in the Lord.
  Funeral services were held on Saturday at 2 o'clock at the Oak Dale Church 
house near St. Paul.  Bishop C. W. Bender conducted the services at the home, 
and at the churchhouse, the ministers Shem Beachey in German and JOnas B. Miller 
in English.

Meyersdale Republican, March 28, 1940