OBIT: Keziah (THOMPSON) DETRICH, 1891, Birmingham, Huntingdon County, PA

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MRS. KEZIAH DETRICH.
Death of an Aged and Much Respected Woman at Birmingham, Pa.

  Our Birmingham correspondent writes as follows:  While the rising of 
yesterday's sun brought gladness into the homes of many of our people, 
there was one in our quiet town in which during the silent hours of the 
night a loved mother was called to her final reward to reap the rich 
rewards of a long and useful life of good deeds while in the Master's 
cause here upon the earth.  The subject of this notice was Mrs. Keziah 
Deitrich [sic], who on Thursday evening retired for the night in the 
best of health and who, only a few short hours later from a stroke of 
paralysis of the heart, was in the cold embraces of death, surrounded 
by those nearest and dearest to her by the ties of nature.  The 
deceased was the daughter of James and Sarah Thompson, and was born in 
the quiet little town in which she died on the 16th of April, 1817, 
which would make her age at the time of her death 73 years, 11 months 
and 4 days.  At the age of 18 years she was united in marriage to Mr. 
Henry Deitrich and to the union was born eight children, two sons and 
six daughters, five of whom along with their father have crossed to the 
other shore; and those who remain now to suffer the loss of a kind and 
affectionate mother are Mrs. David Reynolds, of Red Bank, Pa., and Mrs. 
George W. Owens and Mr. F. A. Deitrich, of this place.  With the 
exception of a few years that she lived in Clarion county the whole of 
her life, from childhood to the ripe old age at which she died, was 
spent here among the hills and along the banks of the Juniata.  Besides 
the members of her immediate family she leaves ten brothers and one 
sister, Johnston Thompson, of Franklin, Pa.; John R. Thompson and Mrs. 
Mary Ann Owens, of this place, along with scores of other surviving 
friends and relatives to mourn the death of one whose friendship was a 
blessing.  The last hours of her life were spent in perusing the pages 
of Holy Writ, that when she went to her accustomed place in the Sunday 
school she might be prepared to take part and answer the questions 
asked intelligently.  'Twas in the little old church on the hillside 
where she first knelt and asked God to speak to her the light of day, 
that she might enter into a full and entire consecration of His work.  
Over sixty years in the cause of Christ, and this fact along with the 
one that almost the last moments of her life were spent reading the 
greatest and best of all books, is to-day a sufficient guarantee that 
she is safe within the harbor.
  The writer has the most pleasant recollections of this good woman, 
who for almost a score of years found a home in her house and among the 
members of her family.  The funeral services will take place on Monday 
afternoon at 3 o'clock, at their home on Market street.  The services 
will be in charge of Rev. William Brill, assisted by Rev. H. R. Bender, 
of the Eighth avenue, and Rev. H. H. Henry, of the Presbyterian church, 
this place.  Immediately after the services her remains will be 
interred in the little graveyard on the hillside.  Peace to her ashes.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, March 21, 1891

1850 Birmingham, Huntingdon County census -
Keziah Detrich, 33  
Fielding Detrich, 15  
Sarah E. Detrich, 12  
M. M. Detrich, 8  
S. Detrich, 5  
A. Detrich, 3  
David Baker, 22  
M. Thompson, 23  
Silas William, 35  

1860 Madison Township, Clarion County census -
Kessiah Detrick, 42  
Fielding Detrick, 24  
Martha Detrick, 18