OBIT: Sarah (YODER) KINSINGER, 1944, Summit Twp., Somerset County, PA 

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SARAH KINSINGER

  Mrs. Sarah (Yoder) Kinsinger, wife of Noah J. Kinsinger died at the family 
home in Summit Township, four miles west of Meyersdale, on Monday, Oct. 2, after 
three weeks' sickness which destroyed her power of speech.  She was aged 65 
years, one month and six days.  She was a daughter of the late John D. Yoder and 
sister of Menno J., Joseph J. and Amos Yoder.
  She became the wife of Noah J. Kinsinger in the fall of 1901.  They lived 
happily together for 43 years and were the parents of ten children - three sons 
and seven daughters.  Surviving, besides the husband and father are the 
following children: Annie, wife of Benny Fisher, Springs; Lillie, wife of John 
Zook, Meyersdale R.D. 1; Milton, married, Meyersdale R.D. 1; Emma, wife of Homer 
Coblentz, living on the Kinsinger home farm; Lydia, wife of Daniel J. Kinsinger, 
Niverton; John, married and living on the original Harvey L. Fike farm, 
Meyersdale R.D. 1; Ida, Ada and Sadie, at home.  One son, Menno, died at the age 
of nine years.
  Mrs. Kinsinger was a lifelong faithful member of the Amish Mennonite Church.  
Funeral services were held Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Summit Mills Amish meeting 
house, by Bishop Lewis Beachy and Eli D. Beachy of Oakland, Md.  Burial was made 
in the cemetery on the Kinsinger home farm.

Meyersdale Republican, October 12, 1944