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Anna Mary <I>Hileman</I> Longenecker

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Anna Mary Hileman Longenecker

Birth
Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
9 Mar 1922 (aged 62)
Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Belsano, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Mary was the wife of Abram Henry Longenecker 1848-1923

She was the daughter of John Hilman and ____(Broombaugh) Hilman

she was born in Blacklick twp, Cambria Co., PA


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Abram R. Longenecker and his wife Catherine Rhoades bought farmland in Blacklick Township, Cambria
County, Pennsylvania in 1850. There they raised a family of seven children.
Abram Henry Longenecker, was their fifth child. He eventually married Anna Mary Hileman, bought a
farm in the little community of Ivison in the same vicinity, and they became the parents of fifteen
children. However, they only raised seven of those children. In the summer of 1887 an
epidemic of black diphtheria swept through the area, and in just one day, claimed at least three of
their children. A neighboring farmer set aside a little plot of land on his farm as a burying
ground. As one child was buried, Abram would go back to the house, only to learn that another had
died. Abram had to take the boards off his barn to make boxes to bury his little children,
Bertha, age 6, Hester, 20 months, and Johnson, an infant. The barn still stands today, looking
across the road to the little country cemetery where the family buried their babies in coffins made
of barn wood.

Pennsylvania, Death cert Cert# 34343
Die age 62y 1m 2d
Mary was the wife of Abram Henry Longenecker 1848-1923

She was the daughter of John Hilman and ____(Broombaugh) Hilman

she was born in Blacklick twp, Cambria Co., PA


note

Abram R. Longenecker and his wife Catherine Rhoades bought farmland in Blacklick Township, Cambria
County, Pennsylvania in 1850. There they raised a family of seven children.
Abram Henry Longenecker, was their fifth child. He eventually married Anna Mary Hileman, bought a
farm in the little community of Ivison in the same vicinity, and they became the parents of fifteen
children. However, they only raised seven of those children. In the summer of 1887 an
epidemic of black diphtheria swept through the area, and in just one day, claimed at least three of
their children. A neighboring farmer set aside a little plot of land on his farm as a burying
ground. As one child was buried, Abram would go back to the house, only to learn that another had
died. Abram had to take the boards off his barn to make boxes to bury his little children,
Bertha, age 6, Hester, 20 months, and Johnson, an infant. The barn still stands today, looking
across the road to the little country cemetery where the family buried their babies in coffins made
of barn wood.

Pennsylvania, Death cert Cert# 34343
Die age 62y 1m 2d

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LONGENECKER
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Abram
1848-1923

Mary
1860-1922

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