EPHRAIM CUSTER
The funeral of Ephraim Custer, the old Conemaugh resident who died yesterday at noon, as mentioned in the Tribune, has been arranged to take place tomorrow morning. Services in charge of the Rev. B. L. Seneff, pastor of the Conemaugh U. B. Church, of which the deceased was a member, will be held in the W. S. Pringle home, where the deceased died, beginning at 9 o’clock. Interment will follow at Hebron Cemetery, in Richland Township.
Mr. Custer was born in Somerset County seventy-eight years, three months, and nine days ago yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Custer, his parents, moved to a farm in Richland Township, this county, when he was about eight years old. The deceased’s parents are dead and Mr. Custer is the third of eleven children to die. The following brothers and sisters survive him: John and Martin, of Conemaugh; Frederick, of the South Side [Kernville]; William, of South Fork; Philip, of Vinco; Mrs. Sarah Dunmire, of Kansas; Mrs. Caroline Wissinger, of Conemaugh, and Mrs. Mary Wendell, of South Fork.
In 1850 Mr. Custer married Miss Christina Ling, of Bedford County. Three of the six children born to this union survive, as follows: Mrs. Sylvester Varner and Mrs. W. S. Pringle, of Conemaugh; and Jacob L. Custer, of Franklin Borough. For years the Custers lived in Richland Township. Later Mr. Custer conducted a store in Conemaugh, but for some time he had been living a retired life with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pringle, on Third street, in the Iron Horse town. |
