[Obituary courtesy of Jim Flack.]
OBIT: Weekly Fort Wayne Sentinel - 19 October 1887.
Mrs Anna Maria Beaber was born in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania on 9 Feb 1806 and departed this life at her home in this city Sabbath afternoon, 16 Oct 1887, at the age of eighty-one years, eight months and seven days.
She was united in marriage to A.G. Beaber on 18 Oct 1831. Their married life lacked but four days of extending through fifty-six years.
Nine children blessed this Union. two sons and one daughter preceded her to the better world. Four sons and two daughter survive, together with one sister and one brother. Jacob, Daniel and Lafayette Beaber and Mrs Sink of this city are children of the departed. A circle of twenty three grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren are all living. The aged husband survives and mourns the loss of a faithful wife and has the sympathy and prayers of a wide circle of acquaintances and friends.
[Obituary courtesy of Jim Flack.]
OBIT: Weekly Fort Wayne Sentinel - 19 October 1887.
Mrs Anna Maria Beaber was born in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania on 9 Feb 1806 and departed this life at her home in this city Sabbath afternoon, 16 Oct 1887, at the age of eighty-one years, eight months and seven days.
She was united in marriage to A.G. Beaber on 18 Oct 1831. Their married life lacked but four days of extending through fifty-six years.
Nine children blessed this Union. two sons and one daughter preceded her to the better world. Four sons and two daughter survive, together with one sister and one brother. Jacob, Daniel and Lafayette Beaber and Mrs Sink of this city are children of the departed. A circle of twenty three grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren are all living. The aged husband survives and mourns the loss of a faithful wife and has the sympathy and prayers of a wide circle of acquaintances and friends.