OBIT: Morris S. MAUST, 1932, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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MORRIS S. MAUST

  The people of Salisbury and vicinity were greatly shocked last Sunday when it 
became known that Morris S. Maust, one of the most prominent and highly esteemed 
farmers of Elk Lick Township, had died in the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, 
Md., that morning at 9:45 o'clock.  Few of his numerous friends and 
acquaintances knew that he had been ill.  Since his death, however, it has been 
learned that he had been suffering from ear trouble since some time last 
January, which resulted in an abscessed condition, for which he had been taking 
treatment from several doctors in Cumberland.  His condition did not become 
alarming until last Saturday morning, when it was decided that he had better be 
taken to the hospital for further observation and treatment.
  At the hospital his head was promptly x-rayed.  The x-ray did not show a 
condition such as had been expected it would.  In the meantime Mr. Maust's 
condition became more and more serious, and before evening the doctors became 
convinced that he had but little chance to recover, and that his death was near.  
His family was promptly notified, and the next morning, at the time already 
stated, he died.  The cause of his death was found to be meningitis.
  Mr. Maust was a son of Samuel P. and Lucinda Beachy Maust, and was born on the 
old Maust ancestral farm in Elk Lick Township, less than two miles north of 
Salisbury, Aug. 7, 1875, and died at the age of 56 years, 9 months and 15 days.  
His place of residence during his entire life was on the farm where he was born 
and reared, and where several generations of Mausts preceded him at farming.  
His father was a well known Elk Lick farmer and minister in the Church of the 
Brethren for many years, and his mother was the eldest daughter of the late 
Abraham and Christena Lichty Beachy.  Like his father, Morris S. Maust soon 
became prominent as a farmer, but during the years of his early manhood he 
taught school for a period of six years at the same school house where he 
himself was schooled when a boy.  After he quit teaching, which was thirty or 
more years ago, he served his fellow citizens very acceptably as a member of the 
Elk Lick Township school board for some years, and was also very prominent in 
the work of the Church of the Brethren, of which he became a member in his 
youth.  He was elected to the ministry of his church, but never accepted the 
call, feeling that he could serve his church more acceptably as a layman.  For 
26 years he ably taught a class in the Sunday School, and always took a leading 
part in the Church and Sunday school music.  He also efficiently served the 
congregation of which he was a member as its secretary, and in various other 
ways for many years.  He was also prominently identified with the Somerset 
County Sabbath School Association, and he could always be counted on for giving 
the best that was in him to any cause or movement for the welfare of the 
community in which he lived, or anything that made for the betterment of 
mankind.  Moreover, he was also a man of kindly impulses, friendly and congenial 
disposition, and in all respects a man of that type which any community 
appreciates, or at least ought to appreciate.
  In his home life Mr. Maust was a devoted and faithful husband, and a most kind 
and loving father.  During his early manhood he wedded a most estimable young 
woman, Miss Annie G. Reiman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah J. Reiman of 
Stonycreek Township.  He is survived by his wife and two sons, Squire Clarence 
A. Maust of Salisbury, and Reiman Maust, at home.  Other surviving near 
relatives are his aged mother, one brother, two sisters and two grandchildren.  
The surviving brother is Abraham L. Maust of Colorado Springs, Colo., and the 
sisters are Mrs. D. J. Meyers and Mrs. Roy C. Vought of Meyersdale.  One brother 
died when an infant, and two sisters, Mrs. Isaac Ritchey of Towner, Colo., and 
Mrs. Ross Smith of Erie, Pa., preceded him in death.
  Mr. Maust will not only be sadly missed by his family and in the church and 
Sunday school where he worshipped, but also in the community where his useful 
and exemplary life was spent.
  The funeral service, which was very impressive and beautiful, was held at the 
Salisbury Church of the Brethren, Tuesday afternoon, the 24th inst., at 2:30 
o'clock.  The service was conducted by Rev. George L. Detweiler, pastor of the 
Meyersdale Church of the Brethren, assisted by Rev. Guy E. Wampler, pastor of 
the Salisbury Church of the Brethren.  The funeral was attended by a large 
concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends, and there were many beautiful 
floral tributes.  The burial arrangement was in charge of Funeral Director W. C. 
Price, of Meyersdale.  Interment was in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, May 26, 1932