OBIT: Mary Susan (Beachly) SAYLOR, 1931, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARY SUSAN BEACHLY SAYLOR

  Mary Susan Beachly Saylor, widow of Uriah M. Saylor, died at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs.  Rufus Miller, in Morrill, Kansas, August 30, at the age of 79 
years, 6 months and 25 days.
  Mary Susan Beachly, daughter of William and Sally Beachly, was born in 
Meyersdale, Feb. 5, 1852, and lived here during the first 30 years of her life.  
Her father was the owner of the tannery that formerly was located along the 
south bank of Flaugherty Creek and Front Street between Center and Salisbury 
Streets, and also the land on which most of that portion of Meyersdale south of 
the Flaugherty is located locally known as the South Side and formerly as 
Beachlytown.  He built, as his family residence, the large brick house on 
Salisbury Street, since converted into the Wenzel Hospital, and which was at the 
time it was built the largest and most ornate dwelling in Meyersdale.  William 
Beachly and Peter Meyers, in whose honor Meyersdale was named, both were victims 
of the typhoid fever epidemic of 1869-1870 to which many residents of this 
community succumbed.
  Mary Susan Beachly was united in marriage with Uriah M. Saylor on Feb. 5, 
1874, her 22nd birthday anniversary, by the late Bishop C. G. Lint of the Church 
of the Brethren.  After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Saylor lived on Fairfield 
Farm, now the property of the Jacob W. Peck family, Summit Township, until 1882 
when they moved to Richardson County, Nebraska, where they resided on a farm 
until their removal to the village of Morrill, Brown County, Kansas, near their 
Nebraska home.  Mr. Saylor died Sept. 29, 1916, since which time Mrs. Saylor 
made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Rufus Miller, and family in Morrill.
  The following children mourn her passing:  Mrs. Zourie Warner, Whiting, 
Kansas; Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, Morrill, and Robert Saylor, Reserve, Kansas.  One 
daughter, Anna, died in infancy.  Besides the foregoing, there are eight 
grandsons, one granddaughter and four great-grandchildren.  Her only surviving 
sister, Mrs. Zura Saylor, lives in Alameda, California.  Three brothers, John, 
Gabriel and Edward Beachly, preceded her to the spirit world.
  Mrs. Saylor was a woman of high intelligence and most sterling qualities of 
heart and soul.  She was greatly loved and respected by all who knew her.  She 
united with the Church of the Brethren during her girlhood, and she and her 
husband were charter members of the Main Street Brethren Church, Meyersdale, 
later having their membership transferred to the Pony Creek congregation near 
Morrill, Kansas.
  Eight grandsons acted as pall-bearers at her funeral.

Meyersdale Republican, September 17, 1931