OBIT: Emma (Countryman) McKENZIE, 1913, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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McKenzie, Emma

  Death has hurled his shaft and hit a shining mark. Such was the general 
feeling when the community was shocked with the sad intelligence this morning 
that Mrs. Emma Countryman McKenzie, wife of T. A. McKenzie, had departed from 
this life to the great beyond, from whence on traveler returns. The summons of 
the young woman was so sudden and the blow so heavy that the young husband was 
crushed and broken hearted in the calamity, which overwhelmed him on the 
threshold of family life. The story of her life is brief, born March 19th, 1891, 
married August 4th, 1912, and died October 30th, 1913. In this life, which ebbed 
out, in a period of 22 years, 7 months and, 11 days there are associated 
hallowed memories of a young woman, who was held in the highest regard by all 
who knew her, and it can justly be said, "none knew her but to praise." She is 
survived by the following: Her Grandmother, Mrs. Harriet Staub, parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. E. J. Countryman, one brother, John, and her husband, Thomas A. McKenzie, 
of the firm McKenzie & Smith. She was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church. 
The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, interment in the 
Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Commercial, Oct. 30, 1913