OBIT: Anna Mary (Gruber) WASMUTH, 1913, Glade City, Somerset County, PA

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Wasmuth, Anna Mary

  On Saturday evening June 14, Mrs. Anna Mary Wasmuth, widow of the late John 
Wasmuth, of Meyersdale, died at the home of Benjamin Housel, of Glade City, her 
son-in-law, aged 76 years, one month and 21 days. Mrs. Wasmuth's maiden name was 
Gruber. When she was nine years old her father, George Gruber of Wittemburg, 
Germany emigrated{sic} with his family to this country and located in the city 
of Cumberland in 1846. Besides this daughter two sons belong to this family, 
John located in Iowa, whither his father also went after the death of his wife 
in Cumberland, Jacob went farther west and made his home in Los Angeles, Cal. 
Father and sons are dead. In 1854 John Wasmuth, a young man came to Cumberland 
from Kur Hesen, Germany, he was a tailor by trade. About two years later he 
married Anna Mary Gruber. They lived during their married life in Cumberland, 
Frostburg, Pine Hill, Hay's Mill and Meyersdale, where Mr. Wasmuth died in 1893. 
Ten children were born to them, but the majority of them died before reaching 
manhood and womanhood. In the seventies of the last century, when diphtheria 
raged freely in Meyersdale and community, four of their children died in one 
season, and a year and a half later two others were carried off by the same 
disease. John, who with his family resided at Turtle Creek, died a few years 
ago. Of the children only three remain, Mrs. Benjamin Housel, the oldest, Jacob 
Wasmuth of our town and Hannah living in another section of the country. Mrs. 
Wasmuth leaves also 15 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; four 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren having died. Mrs. Wasmuth was an 
excellent woman, a faithful member of Amity Reformed Church. Funeral services 
were conducted on Monday afternoon by her pastor and her earthly remains laid to 
rest in the Reformed Cemetery. Members of the Men's Bible Class, of which her 
son Jacob is a member, acted as pallbearers.

Meyersdale Commercial, June 19, 1913