OBIT: Nelson Peter MAUST, 1932, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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NELSON P. MAUST

  Nelson Peter Maust, one of the oldest and most widely known citizens of 
Salisbury, died in the Wenzel Hospital, Meyersdale, on Friday, April 1, at the 
age of 86 years and 17 days.  His demise was due to the infirmities of age, 
aggravated by a broken arm resulting from a fall while visiting at the home of 
his son, Albert G. Maust, in Sipesville, three weeks before he entered the 
hospital.
  His body after being prepared for burial by Undertaker W. C. Price, was 
removed to his home in Salisbury.  Funeral services were conducted in the 
Salisbury Church of the Brethren meeting house at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, by Rev. 
George L. Detweiler, of Meyersdale, assisted by Rev. Guy Wampler of Salisbury 
and Rev. Newton D. Cosner of Sipesville, ministers of the Church of the Brethren 
at the respective places named.
  After the funeral services his remains were laid to rest in the Maust cemetery 
on the ancestral Maust farm in Elk Lick Township, now owned and occupied by his 
nephew, Morris S. Maust.
  Nelson P. Maust, son of Peter A. Maust, was born on March 15, 1846, in Summit 
Township on a farm on which the present village of Shaw Mines is located.  When 
Nelson was yet quite a young lad, his father became the owner of and moved back 
to the ancestral farm in Elk Lick Township.  Upon this farm Nelson worked and 
played until he was a grown up man.  During his young manhood he heeded Horace 
Greely's advice and went West to grow up with the country.  He joined the 
Somerset County colony at Waterloo, Iowa, but after awhile the home ties and the 
lure of his native mountains impelled him to return to Pennsylvania to live to a 
ripe old age among his friends and kindred in Somerset County.
  In the spring of 1874 he entered into partnership with the late Samuel J. 
Livengood, father of the publisher of The Meyersdale Republican, to conduct a 
general store in Salisbury on the corner now occupied by the Barchus, Livengood 
& Co. Store.  This partnership lasted only two years, when Mr. Maust retired 
from the firm to engage in other pursuits.
  The next important event in his life was his marriage to Miss Amanda Miller of 
Listonburg, who survives him.  This union was a very happy one. One son, Albert 
G. Maust, merchant and postmaster at Sipesville, and three daughters, Mrs. Maude 
Coughenour, who recently died at Connellsville, Mrs. Pearl Barnett of Latrobe, 
and Mrs. Nettie Miller of Sipesville, were born to them.  For many years Mr. and 
Mrs. N. P. Maust lived at Wood Lawn, on the bank of the Casselman River, in 
Summit Township.  He worked in the mines and at various odd jobs, and for a 
number of years was health officer of Summit Township.  He was an industrious, 
upright and law-abiding citizen, always.  Several years ago, after all of his 
children were grown up and living apart from their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maust 
sold their Wood Lawn home to John B. Plitt and moved to Salisbury where they 
bought a home and lived in retirement.
  He united with the Church of the Brethren during his young manhood and 
remained faithful to its tenets until the end of his days.  He approached his 
death as a true Christian soldier, bearing his suffering with much fortitude and 
the calmness that characterized the life he lived.  It can truly be said that 
his was a life devoted to his home, his country and his church.  There were few 
laymen who knew the Bible as he did and studied it constantly as he did.  He 
died as he had always lived, at peace with his fellowmen, and a good example to 
all in the practice of the simple Christian virtues that go to the making of the 
best type of American citizenship.

Meyersdale Republican, April 7, 1932