OBIT: *Noma (Mansberger) Coble, 1916, York, York County, PA

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BURNS PROVED FATAL

MRS. HARRY COBLE AND MRS. OSCAR MILLER DIE IN YORK HOSPITAL

Two York county women succumbed Monday evening in the York hospital to burns 
sustained last week.  They are Mrs. Harry Coble, of Cly, Newberry township, who 
passed away at 6:30 o’clock, and Mrs. Oscar Miller, Thomasville, who died at 
8:20 o’clock.

Mrs. Coble, who was 35 years old, sustained severe burns to her body last 
Wednesday morning when a quantity of oil spilled from a lamp and set fire to her 
clothing.  She leaves her husband and two children, Stella and Grace, at home, 
also, the following brothers and sisters:  Charles, Cly; Sylvan, Waynesboro, 
Mrs. Carter Wolf, Steelton, and Harry Mansberger, York R. F. D. No. 1.  Her 
father, Granville Mansberger, is also living.

The dress of Mrs. Oscar Miller, of Thomasville, ignited last Saturday while she 
was engaged in baking and her body was burned almost to a crisp.  Mrs. Miller 
was 65 years old.  The body was removed to the residence of Mrs. Miller’s son, 
Charles Miller, Thomasville, with whom she and her husband resided.  Mrs. Miller 
leaves, beside her husband, six sons, Clayton, of York; John, of Thomasville; 
Harvey, of New Oxford; Benton, of East Berlin; Charles and Ryno, of Thomasville, 
and three daughters, Mrs. Walter Graham, of Baltimore; Mrs. Effie Lindaman, of 
Berwick, Pa., and Mrs. C. S. Rebert, of Hanover; one brother, Amos Jacobs, West 
York, and a sister, Mrs. Isaac Hoechst, of East Berlin.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, May 27, 1916

[* - Given name from the marriage records available from the York County Archives
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