OBIT: Julia Mae (Hartland) WECHTENHEISER, 1931, Jerome, Somerset County, PA

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JULIA MAE WECHTENHEISER

  Mystery surrounds the death of Mrs. Julia Mae Wechtenheiser, of Jerome, wife 
of Francis Wechtenheiser, who died very suddenly at her home at 6:30 a.m., March 
5.  She had been enjoying good health and was found violently ill by her husband 
on Tuesday evening, March 3, when he returned home from work.  Three physicians 
were called, but the exact cause of her death was not determined.  So on 
Thursday afternoon a postmortem examination was held at the mortuary of J. O. 
Hay of Boswell, where the body was prepared for burial.  Mrs. Emily (Kimmel) 
Fluck, Deputy Coroner of Somerset County, was present.  The contents of the 
stomach were forwarded to Philadelphia for chemical analysis.
  Mrs. Wechtenheiser was aged 24 years, 1 month and 19 days.  She is survived by 
her husband and two daughters, Clara, aged 7 years, and Grace, 5 years old; her 
mother, Mrs. Isabella Hartland, formerly of Coal Run; one brother, Jacob 
Hartland, Jerome, and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Krause and Mary Leydig, both of 
Pittsburgh.  The funeral was held Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Pentecostal Church at 
Boynton; burial in the family lot at St. Paul.  Among those who attended the 
funeral were Mrs. Clara Krause, Mrs. Mary Leydig and children, Mrs. C. F. 
Rudolph and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wechtenheiser, all of Pittsburgh, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hutzel, of Glencoe.

Meyersdale Republican, March 12, 1931