OBIT: Mary (Hauer) Everhart, 1916, Shrewsbury, York County, PA

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DEATH OF MRS. EVERHART

Close of a Beautiful Christian Life – Daughter of Rev. Dr. Hauer.

Entered into rest at her home, in Shrewsbury, Pa., Thursday night, August 3d, 
Mrs. Mary Hauer Everhart, wife of George P. Everhart, and youngest daughter of 
the late Rev. D. J. Hauer, D. D., and wife.

“There was ‘No Moaning of the Bar,’
     The great sea was at rest,
The glow of the bright morning star
     Shone on its quite breast,
Some One had hushed the storm!
     Twas He
Who stilled the waves of Gallilee!”

So wrote her loving pen when the pure spirit of her dear mother winged its 
flight to its Heavenly Home and it is true of her home going.  Gentle sleep fell 
upon her and her frail body was at rest. 

Her Christian life was one of beautiful development, and her pen was devoted to 
the spreading of the “light that shines more and more unto the perfect day.”

Her rally song – written for and used by all branches of the W. C. T. U., of 
Maryland – rings with noble uplift, and has wakened lofty impulses in many 
breasts, helping men and women to stand for purity and Christ.  

Her life was one of faithful ministries, as wife and mother she ever had the 
“loving heart,” the “strong-right arm,” a “lip wreathed o’er with hope and love” 
for those most dear to her.  She was a friend in all the breadth of that great 
word, but she did not minister along to those she loved – her heart reached out 
to all humanity, to the little child of the slums and to the poor sin wrecked 
soul, meeting them with tenderness and love, her helping hand clasping theirs to 
comfort and to save.

Great suffering was hers but
“That night
The lamp grew paler in her room,
And flickered in its socket,
But her soul was lit up with a clearer 
Purer light – 
The daybreak of a near eternity,
Which cast its penetrating beams
Across the isthmus of her life
And fringed with gold the mists of 
Childhood
And revealed beyond the everlasting hills.”

She is survived by her husband, Mr. George P. Everhart; her son, Dr. George 
Hauer Everhart, of Baltimore, Md.; her niece and foster daughter, Miss W. M. 
Hauer, and one sister, Miss Maria W. Hauer, of this place.

Services at her late home in Shrewsbury, Sunday evening at 6 o’clock.  Interment 
at Frederick, Md., Monday, at 10:30 a.m.


The Hanover Herald – Saturday, August 12, 1916