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Heinrich Batman
Newspaper: Pottstown Mercury
Date: 02 May 1893
Submitters Name: K
Obit: Henry Batman, an old & respected citizen of this borough, died on Sunday at his home, 331 Lincoln avenue, Pottstown, aged 79 year, 11 months and 22 days. He had been ailing for some time--never fully recovered from an injury about ten years ago, when he fell backward from a wagon and was seriously hurt. Deceased had worked in the marble yards of this borough over fifty years, as a marble polisher. His wife is living and there are two sons, Frank & Jacob Batman, of Pottstown. John Batman, of Congo, this county, is a brother, and Mrs. Sarah Seasholtz, of Bechtelsville, a sister of deceased. Funeral on Thursday next, at 10 a.m. Interment in Pottstown Cemetery.
Robert Bell
Reading Eagle, Reading, Pennsylvania 27 Dec 1899
Out of Town Deaths:
Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Robert Bell, at Norristown, aged 19 years from injuries sustained by being run over by a Reading Railway train, which he was flagging.
Thomas Berger
Reading Eagle 18 May 1896
Hereford- Sudden Death of Thomas Berger.
Thomas Berger, of Palm, died very suddenly late Saturday of a stroke of apoplexy, aped 39 years. Dr. Gery was hastily summoned, but Mr. Berger was dead when he arrived. Deceased is survived by his wife, and Irwin, his only child, a boy of 9 years. Mr. Berger used to live In Allentown. No announcement of funeral has been made. -- Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Mrs. Catharine Besch
Taken from the Reading Eagle dated December 23, 1899
Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Mrs. Catharine Besch, at Linfield, Montgomery County, after a short illness. Her husband survives.
Thomas Bruff
Reading Eagle, Reading, Pennsylvania 27 Dec 1899
Out of Town Deaths:
Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Thomas Bruff, at Norristown, aged 85 years. Deceased was well known.
Daniel Kolb Cassel
Obituary: Saturday, February 26, 1898: "The Germantown Guide":
DEATH OF A GENEALOGIST.
Daniel Kolb Cassel, well known as a Mennonite historian and genealogist, died last Saturday at his home, 4333 Germantown avenue, of paralysis. Mr. Cassel was born April 22, 1820, in Upper Salford township, Montgomery county, and was a descendant of Hupert Kassel, a weaver, who came to this country from Germany about 1715, and settled in Germantown. On February 16, 1845, Mr. Cassel was married to Elizabeth Kolb, daughter of the Rev. Jacob Kolb, of Harleysville. In February, 1895, Mr. and Mrs. Cassel celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. Cassel's best works include "History of the Mennonites," printed in German and in English; "The Cassel Family," " The Kolb or Kulp Family," and "The Rittenhouse Family," each of the latter genealogical compilations. His "History of the Mennonites" traces that people carefully from the time of his ancestor, William Rittenhouse, the first Mennonite bishop in America. He was always active in Sunday-school work and as a bibliophile was well known. Among his books is a volume of a full Polyglot Testament in twelve languages, printed at Nuremberg in 1599. But one other copy of the book, it is said, is in existence in this country. Mr. Cassel was a member of the Montgomery County Historical Society. He was chairman of the Rittenhouse Genealogical Committee, a shareholder and member of Bethel College, and a life member of the American Archaeological and Asiatic Association of Iowa. His wife and three sons survive. The funeral services were held on Wednesday after noon at the Mennonite Church, Main and Herman streets. The services were conducted by the Rev. N. B. Grubb, who was assisted by the Rev. Silas N. Grubb, pastor of the church, the Rev. L. O. Shimmel, and the Rev. G. N. Falkenstein, of the Brethren Church. The interment was made in the churchyard and the pall-bearers were Messrs. R. H. Cassel, William T. Collis, William W. Dutton, Edmund J. Oliver, Wesley I. Bean and George A. Stiles.
Contributed by Sara Hemp
Mrs. Mary Culp
Reading Eagle, Reading, Pennsylvania 27 Dec 1899
Out of Town Deaths:
Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Mrs. Mary Culp, near Norristown, aged 66 years.
Edgar F. Donough
Edgar F. Donough Died At Glenside Wednesday
Edgar F. Donough of Glenside, brother of Druggist Charles Donough, Sixth and Cumberland streets, died suddenly at his home last evening. He is survived by his wife, Ella; one daughter, Mrs. Russell McElween and three brothers, Charles F., John J. and Robert Donough. . [Lebanon Daily News, Thursday Evening, November 5, 1931, Page 15 - Transcribed by Nancy Piper]
John Goodwin
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
August 11 1824
Died at Norristown on the 16th ult., Mr. John Goodwin, late of Arbington township, Montgomery county, in the 84th year of his age. The deceased was one of the worthies of the revolutionary war. He was frequently promoted to public trust, and discharged his duty to general satisfaction. He was crier of the several courts of Montgomery county, from the time they were first organized to the day of his death, a period of 10 years.
Mrs. Blanche Deery Hart
Reading Eagle, Reading, Pennsylvania 27 Dec 1899
Out of Town Deaths:
Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Mrs. Blanche Deery Hart, at Conshohocken, aged 26 years.
Robert E. Hobart
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) March 29, 1826
Died on Tuesday at Harrisburg, Robert E. Hobart, Esq., a member of the House of Representatives from Montgomery county at an advanced age.
Mrs. Sarah Holstein
Chester Times (Chester, Pennsylvania) April 26, 1882
State Telegrams
Mrs. Sarah Holstein, widow of the late Major Mathias Holstein, died at her home in Norristown on Sunday in the ninety-first year of her age. One of her last requests was to the effect that none of her female relatives should be allowed to attend her funeral. She will be buried today in accordance with her singular request. - MONTGOMERY
John Newell
Anti Masonic Star (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
December 8 1830
On Tuesday evening last, John Newell, in attempting to step from a canal boat on shore at Norristown, fell into the water and was drowned. He was a stranger in that vicinity, but his remains were decently interred on the subsequent day.
Rev. J. Grier Ralston
The Indiana Democrat (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
November 1880
Rev. J. Grier Ralston, D. D., LL.D., founder and principal of the Oakland female institute in Norristown, died in that city yesterday morning, aged seventy-five years. He was the third son of Samuel Ralston, of Chester county, where he was born in 1815. He was graduated from Washington college and Princeton theological seminary. He was an Indian missionary, but failing health induced him to resign, and afterward he came principal of the female seminary at Oxford, Chester county. He founded the Oakland female institute in Norristonw in 1845. It became under his management one of the leading institutions of its kind in this part of the country. Over three thousand pupils have been educated there.
Craig Taylor Rigg
Newspaper: Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Date: Dec. 10, 1962
Submitters Name: Allen Bankson
Obit: Craig Rigg, head of maintenance at Cooper Creek Chemical Co., West Conshohocken, for 22 years, died Saturday [Dec. 8, 1962] in Sacred Heart Hospital, Norristown. He was 68 and lived at 417 Spring Mill av., Conshohocken.
Before working at Cooper Creek he was a foreman at Lee Rubber and Tire Corp., Conshohocken, for 25 years. He was a Mason.
Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Lightcap; a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Wood, and three grandshildren.
Services will be tomorrow [Dec. 11, 1962] at 2 P. M. at the daughter's home, 1702 Harmon road, Conshohocken. Burial will be in Gulf [sic.] Christian Cemetery, Gulph Mills.
G. W. Sharpless
The Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
April 14 1845
Suicide - A young man named G. W. Sharpless, a native of Norristown, Pa., committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn at Norfolk on Thursday last. He had been engaged in the manufacture of lime for some time, and was considerably embarrassed, in his pecuniary affairs, which is thought to have been the cause of the rash act.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 10, 1824
On Wednesday morning the 25th ult., Mr. Samuel Smith was found in the public road in Hereford township, frozen to death. He formerly resided near Sumneytown, Montgomery county. - Reading Chron.
Charles Thompson
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
August 25, 1824
Died on Monday evening the 16th inst., at his residence in Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, the venerable and much respected Charles Thompson, in the 95th year of his age. He was one of the most virtuous, steadfast, energetic and useful patriots of the revolution. Few names connected with the history of American independence deserve more honor than his, in reference both to his public and private merits. He enjoyed, as sole secretary of the revolutionary congress, the highest confidence of that body and of the country, and the personal friendship of the best and greatest of the Americans. He stood among them like the personification of probity, firmness and regularity. He possessed a mind naturally strong and perspicacious, which he enriched with various learning, ancient and modern, that became a constant source of gratification and employment to him in his retirement. The chief object of his old age was to prepare himself for the future life, and his friends and relatives have every reason to believe, that as a truly earnest, pious and practical Christian, he has gained the crown which he so perseveringly and worthily sought. - Frank. Gaz.
Adolph Waldo
Taken from the Reading Eagle dated December 23, 1899
Contributed by Vicki Hartman
Adolph Waldo, at Trappe, Montgomery County, aged 70 years. Deceased was a veteran of the Civil war.
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