Tri-Counties Genealogy & History
Brewster Cemetery, Sullivan Township,
Tioga County, Pennsylvania
Obituaries
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Photos by Joyce M. Tice
Obituaries & Clippings Collected from Scrapbooks by
Joyce M. Tice
For her Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project.
Please submit any additional clippings that you
have available.
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| Reading a series of obituaries from a single
cemetery, as they are presented here, is like reading the multi-generational
history of a community. These people were the local populace at a particular
time. The people buried here knew each other, were neighbors, relatives and
school mates. They attended church together and engaged in "trade" or business.
All people are listed in alphabetic order by surname at BIRTH. Women
identified by a married alias only and for whom a birth surname can not be
identified, are listed on the last page for the cemetery's obituaries. |
MISS LEDA BREWSTER
Miss Leda Brewster, 92, of Sullivan Township, died
Saturday morning, December 5, 1953. Miss Brewster was a member of the Methodist
Church at Elk Run, Pa. Survived by niece, Mrs. Harry Garrison of Roseville,
Pa., nephews, Frank Mudge of Watkins Glen, Arthur and Horace Hager of
Mainesburg, Pa., Homer and Charles Hager of Mansfield, Pa., Leonard Hager of
Waverly. The funeral was held Tuesday at 2 pm at the Shaw & Robena Funeral
Home, the Rev. Clarence Whetstone officiating. Burial was in the Brewster
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BREWSTER After a protracted illness,
Miss Melissa BREWSTER (SRGP 07418) died on June 29th, 1886, aged 37
years. Her Death Has Spread A Gloom over the community. Few young ladies
have so endeared Selves to a large circle of friends ...unselfish devotion
to the cause of Christ. Early in life she sought Christ and became a member of
the M. E. church at Chandlersburg, and from that time on until her death she
never ceased to be identified with every interest pertaining to church and
Sunday school. Naturally inclined to teaching, she began the same in the public
schools of the neighborhood, and for several years was a beloved and successful
teacher. She was unselfish as she was kind, loving her chosen occupation, she
gave it up because she considered it her duty to remain at home and minister to
the comfort of her mother who was in very poor health. It was while taking care
of her beloved mother in her last sickness that she contracted the disease which
resulted in her death.She was a member of the school at Chandlersburg, where her
loss is mourned as irreparable. She leaves a kind and loving father, three
sisters and one brother to follow her to the better land.Her funeral took place
from her home in Sullivan July 1st. After
Concourse of friends gathered to pay their last tribute of respect. Rev.
Fosbinder, of Mainesburg, preached an impressive discourse from John 16, 33, "I
have overcome the world; the family are deeply bereaved, but they sorrow not as
those who have no hope. With christian fortitude they are bearing their great
grief, for they know that if our earthly house of this __________ be dissolved,
we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens."
Mr. O. T. Brewster died yesterday morning, Dec.
13, at 10:30, at his home in Sullivan, aged 78 years. Deceased had
been ill for several months. He was a native of Connecticut. He was
a member of the Elk Run M. E. Church and enjoyed the respect of a
large circle of acquaintances. His wife died several years ago. The
surviving members of his immediate family are Mrs. S. G. Mudge, Mrs.
Horace Hager and Leda, at home and Mr. Philo Brewster. The funeral
is to be held on Thursday at 11 o’clock from the home.
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 08 JUN 2004
By Joyce M. Tice
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