OBIT: Ella (Slicer) RYLAND, 1915, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Ryland, Ella

Mrs. Ella Ryland, wife of Sylvester H. Ryland, one of Meyersdale's oldest and 
most highly respected citizens, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. C. H. 
Younkin, at Grantsville, in Maryland Thursday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Three 
weeks ago, Mrs. Ryland went to visit her daughter, and a few days after arriving 
there was compelled to take her bed. For several years her health had been 
failing. Death was due to heart failure. Mrs. Ryland was a daughter of the late 
John Slicer of Grantsville. Her three brothers all deceased, William, John and 
Nathaniel, were former hotel keepers, of Meyersdale. She is survived by her 
husband, her daughter, two sons, Dr. W. H. Ryland, of Meyersdale and G. B. 
Ryland, a prominent druggist, of Pittsburg. Mrs. Wm. Shafenberg and Theresa 
Slicer, of Cumberland are sisters. Mrs. Ryland was 71 years of age. Undertaker 
W. C. Price went to Grantsville Thursday afternoon and brought the remains to 
her late home on Main Street, where the funeral services were conducted Saturday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. J. C. Matteson, of the Methodist Church, Mrs. 
Ryland's pastor officiating. Interment was made in the Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Commercial, June 10, 1915