OBIT: Jennie (HASSELROTH) WILMOTH, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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JENNIE HASSELROTH WILMOTH

  After several months of critical illness, Mrs. Jennie Hasselroth Wilmoth 
passed to her eternal rest, at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, Oct. 10, at her home, 
"Hillcrest," corner of Front and Beachly Street.
  At her bedside when she passed away were nearly all of her children who had 
spent most of their time with her since she returned from the Presbyterian 
Hospital, New York City, several weeks ago, after a difficult operation which 
failed to restore her health.  She had suffered much during the past year from 
an abnormal enlargement of the aorta.
  A daughter of Frederick and Lydia (Boyer) Hasselroth, she was born in Somerset 
County of which she was a resident her entire life.  She would have been 80 
years old Oct. 30th, had her life been spared a few weeks longer.
  In her young womanhood, she became the wife of Henry J. Wilmoth, a young 
lumberman of Southampton Township at the beginning of his eminently successful 
business career.  She was a capable and devoted wife and mother and during the 
early years of their marriage she was of great help to her husband in building 
up his extensive lumbering operation.
  About the turn of the century, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmoth located in Meyersdale 
where she had lived ever since.  Mr. Wilmoth died in 1913, but not before he had 
built "Hillcrest," the largest and most valuable residence property in 
Meyersdale, which has been the Wilmoth family home ever since 1904.  Before his 
death, Mr. Wilmoth acquired the Meyersdale electric light and power plant and 
also the light and power plants in Garrett, Boynton and Wellersburg, which he 
enlarged and improved.
  After her husband's death, Mrs. Wilmoth, with the aid of her son, the late 
Fred W. Wilmoth, continued to conduct and operate his various industrial plants 
and business interests.  Before her son Fred's accidental death, the Wilmoth 
light and power plants were sold to the Associated Gas and Electric Company and 
some of the other Wilmoth interests were liquidated and discontinued, so that 
Mrs. Wilmoth had fewer business cares to look after in her declining years.
  Mrs. Wilmoth was a friendly neighborly woman, prominent in local social 
circles and carried on many private charities, and will be missed by many 
friends.  She was a long-time member and supporter of the Amith Reformed Church 
and took an active interest in its various activities.
  She is survived by the following children: Barney B. Wilmoth, Glen Campbell; 
Mrs. C. C. Cook, Meyersdale; Mrs. R. K. Quillman, Norristown; Mrs. Harry 
Baldwin, Meyersdale; Miss Mary Wilmoth, at home, and Miss Gretchen Wilmoth of 
Washington, D.C.  Two sons, Alfred and Frederick, preceded her in death.  She is 
also survived by 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and by two 
sisters, Mrs. Ida B. Sturtz, Akron, O.; and Mrs. W. O. Houck, Kingwood, W.Va.
  Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Wilmoth 
residence, with Rev. Nelson C. Brown, pastor of Amity Reformed Church, 
officiating.  Burial in Union Cemetery, under the direction of W. C. Price and 
Son, Morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, October 12, 1944