OBIT: Hiram STURTZ, 1931, Wellersburg, Somerset County, PA

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HIRAM STURTZ

  Hiram Sturtz, a son of Hiram and Susan Beal Sturtz, a native of Wellersburg, 
Somerset County, and a life-long resident there, died at the Memorial Hospital, 
Cumberland, Md., Tuesday, May 26th, aged 68 years, 8 months and 28 days.  Death 
came as the result of an attack of pneumonia, lasting eleven days.  His wife, 
Susanna Witt, a daughter of Jacob Witt, died August 11, 1894.
  Mr. Sturtz was constable of the borough of Wellersburg, in which capacity he 
served for a number of years and his duties were well performed.  He was a good 
citizen, sturdy and upright, well liked, a man with many friends.
  He was born August 28, 1862, three days after his father enrolled at Berlin, 
Pa., for military duty in the Civil War as a corporal in Company F, in the 142nd 
Regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, under Captain Francis A. Edmonds, 
Colonel Robert P. Cummins, commanding the regiment.  Comrade Sturtz was killed 
in line of battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862.  Susan B. 
Sturtz, widow, died September 10, 1918, aged 72 years, 3 months and 10 days.
  The surviving children of Hiram and Susanna Witt Sturtz are William, Walter 
E., Elmer, Carl, George and Mrs. Belle Maurice, of Wellersburg, Harry E., of 
Chambersburg, Pa., and Robert E., of Stoyestown, R.F.D. No. 2.  Three sons and 
three daughters died single.  There are twenty-eight grandchildren and seven 
great-grandchildren.  A sister, Mrs. Souria Sturtz Weimer, of Holsopple, also 
survives.
  Mr. Sturtz was a member of the Wellersburg Evangelical Church.  The funeral 
sermon was preached in this church by the pastor, Rev. Clewell E. Miller, of 
Ellerslie, Md.  Interment at the Cook Cemetery in Southampton Township.  The 
obsequies were attended by a great number of relatives and friends, all of whom 
most deeply feel the loss.
  The Sturtz, Beal and Witt families were among the early settlers of 
Londonderry Township, Bedford County, which has long since become Southampton 
Township, Somerset County.  John Jacob Sturtz, progenitor of the Sturtz family 
here, came from Berks County, Pa., after serving in the American Revolutionary 
War.

Meyersdale Republican, June 4, 1931