OBIT: S. Ellen (CRAUMER) AYRES, 1933, Interment at Dallastown, York County, PA

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WIFE OF REV. AYTES DIES AT CARLISLE; WILL BE BURIED AT DALLASTOWN

Dallastown, Sept 24 - Word was received here today of the death of Mrs. S. Ellen 
AYRES, wife of Rev. A. R. AYRES, which occurred at 9:05 o'clock this morning at 
her home at Carlisle. Rev. Mr. AYRES is a retired United Brethren minister and 
as a former pastor of the Second U. B. church, York, he and Mrs. AYERS resided 
in York for a number of years. Mrs. AYRES also lived in Dallastown when she was 
a girl.

She had been in ill health for several years, and death was caused by a 
complication of diseases. She was aged 77 years, two months and 23 days. 
Surviving are six children, Mrs. Frank GREEN, Carlisle; Mrs. Ray STAUFFER, 
Hazelton; Mrs. John PLOUGH, Carlisle; John AYRES, Philadelphia; Dr. Wilmot 
AYRES, California; and Helen, Harrisburg; a number of grandchildren; two 
brothers E. S. CRAUMER and William CRAUMER, York; and three sisters. Mrs. 
Ambrose HELDER, Harrisburg; and Mrs. Maggie SMITH and Mrs. William LAUMASTER, 
both of York.

Funeral services will be held at the Bethlehem U. B. church here Tuesday at 2:30 
p.m. Rev. I. S. Ernst, a U. B. minister of Carlisle, will officiate, assisted by 
Rev. Paul E. V. Shannon. Interment will be made in the Home cemetery.

Newspaper clipping from Cramer family files, York Heritage Trust, in Cramer 
obituary collection, Handwritten date on clipping 1933


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Mrs. Sarah Ellen Ayres

Mrs. Sarah Ellen Ayres, wife of Rev. A.R. Ayres D.D., retired minister of the 
Pennsylvania Conference, died Sunday 24th at her home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 
She was aged 77 years. She was the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. W.H. 
Craumer. Her father was a well known United Brethren minister who preached in 
the Pennsylvania Conference for a quarter of a century. She began her Christian 
life and joined the church at Dallastown, Pennsylvania, while yet in her teens. 
All of her people on both sides of her family were United Brethren. These facts 
concerning her parentage and early life make possible an understanding of the 
enduring loyalty, sympathy and intelligence with which she entered into the 
customary duties of the itinerant preacher's wife when she was united in 
marriage with the Rev. Ayres.

For more than fifty years her lovely presence graced the home and her faithful 
assistance aided her husband in the difficult labors of his ministerial life. 
Her refined Christian character made for herself, her husband and the church, 
many friends wherever it feel their lot to serve. The ill health of Mrs. Ayres 
made necessary their retirement from the active ministry in 1923 and since that 
time she was a faithful member of Grace Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Although 
unable to attend the church services during the past several years, she 
nevertheless retained a remarkable interest in all phases of its work, and the 
support which she gave to it by means of her influence, offerings and prayers 
are unsurpassed. As the church bells were calling the faithful to worship on 
Sunday morning, September 24th, her spirit quietly slipped over the threshold of 
her home to join the immortal throng in the worship of God before the great 
white throne.

Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. I.S. Ernst, assisted by 
Reverends E.C.B. Castle, S.G. Sherriff, R.E.V. Shannon and J.H.Ness. Reverends 
R.R. Rodes, J.A. Shettel, H.W. Zuse, M.R. Fleming, L.W. Lutz and G.C. Daugherty 
served as pallbearers. Interment was made in the Home Cemetery at Dallastown, 
Pennsylvania.

Mother Ayres, as she was often called, gave to her family and to the church the 
beautiful example of a faithful, devoted Christian life. Her children, and her 
many friends throughout the entire church, rise up and call her blessed.

written by I.S. Ernst.

From Commission on Archives and History Lycoming College Library,
Williamsport, PA 17701 October 4, 1933, Conference Proceedings pg 22