Mary A. Fredenburg, 81 years, 5 months, 16 days, died at her home in Otterville December 26, 1905. Funeral services were from Otterville ME church, Rev. S. Albrecht officiating. The large concourse of friends and kindly neighbors bore testimony of the esteem in which she was held in this community. The maiden name of the deceased was Lofton, oldest child of Samuel & Catherine Lofton. She was born near what is now Salem in then Greene County, but now Jersey, July 10, 1824. On August 20, 1844, she married E. F. Fredenburg, who 25 years ago preceded her to that realm from which no one returns. To this union were born 10 children, 6 of whom survive her, 4 daughters and 2 sons. They were all with her during her last week's illness and all that loving hearts and willing hands could do was done. For about a quarter of a century she was a zealous and devoted member of the ME church in Otterville. For several month past her waning strength gave notice to all that the shadowy reaper death was at hand. Many weary nights during life has she spent by the bed side of the sick and the dying but she is now in that land whose inhabitants wander not and are never weary. The kindly acts of her neighbors can never be forgotten and though the burial day was the most inclement of the winter yet a large concourse followed the remains to the burying ground through the storm. The lord has called her to a land that is stormless and shadowless. One by one the landmarks of early times are disappearing. She has crossed the shadowy river and joined the great congregation. (By r. r. n.) Mrs. Mary Fredenberg died at the home in Otterville, December 26. Mrs. Fredenberg had lived in this immediate neighborhood all her life and will be sadly missed, as she possessed a jovial disposition and was a friend to everyone.
Obituary by Beth McGlasson