OBIT: Elizabeth (Hershberger) STEVANUS, 1914, Elk Lick Twp., Somerset County, PA

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Stevanus, Elizabeth Hershberger

  Mrs. Elizabeth Hershberger Stevanus, wife of Jeremiah S. Stevanus, died at the 
Stevanus home in Elk Lick Twp., Tuesday morning February 24th, 1914, at the age 
of 65 year, 7 months and 15 days. She had helped to nurse her son and his 
family, while they had typhoid fever and about five weeks ago she contracted the 
disease which terminated in her demise, after weeks of patient suffering. Owing 
to her condition she was not told of the death and burial of her son Dennis, and 
passed away, not knowing that he had preceded her to the eternal world. Funeral 
services will be held in the Mennonite Church at Springs, of which she was a 
member since early girlhood, on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Deceased was a 
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Hershberger. She is survived by her 
husband and the following children: Wilbert of Salisbury, Sherman, Sugar Creek, 
Ohio, Howard, Heston, Kansas; Mrs. Lloyd H. Miller, Springs, and Mrs. Clarence 
Hetrick, Garrett County. The youngest child died when two years old. She is also 
survived by foster daughter who is also her niece, Mrs. Suhrie Hetrick. One 
brother, Elias Hershberger, of Trent, Somerset County and the following sisters 
mourn the departed sister: Mrs. Susan Stevanus of Berlin and Mrs. Sarah King of 
Springs. Mrs. Stevanus will be much missed by her family. She was always much 
concerned about the welfare of her children and was always at her post of duty 
in her home.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 26, 1914