OBIT: Emma (Hambright) RUPP, 1916, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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Rupp, Emma

  DEATH OF FORMER MINISTER'S WIFE - Mrs. Emma Rupp, died Sunday, Jan. 30, at the 
home of her daughter Mrs. D. E. Master, in Huntingdon, aged 73 years. Deceased 
was a native of Lancaster County and was a woman of splendid character. Her 
husband was for five years - from 1877 - 82, the beloved pastor of the Reformed 
Church in Meyersdale; previous to that pastor of the Reformed Church at Berlin 
for eleven years. He died in 1903. Upon leaving here Dr. Rupp accepted a chair 
in the Theological Seminary at Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster. Mrs. 
Rupp's maiden name was Hambright and she was born near Lancaster, Pa. Six 
children survive three sons all of whom are ministers of the Reformed Church and 
three daughters all of whom married Reformed Ministers. The body was taken to 
Lancaster for internment.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 3, 1916