Notes for Emma Gertrude FORTENBAUGH
Obituary: "Mrs. John Kistler is Burned to Death... The funeral of Mr.s John Kistler, of Harrisburg...was held in the Church of God, Marysville...burial was in the cemetery there. Mrs. Kistler, who was Miss Emma Gertrude Fortenbaugh, or Marysville, where they resided before moving to Harrisburg. She had been ill health several years. She met death in a horrible manner, her body being burned to a crisp. She was preparing to bake pies and had just started a fire, and it is not known what happened... Mr. Kistler is a son of Joseph Kistler, a native of Elliottsburg, and wife, who was Miss Mary Rickard, of Loysville. Mrs. Kistler was in her 53rd year. Surviving are her husband, three sons, James, Howell, and Garman Kistler, all of Harrisburg; a step-mother and three brothers, of Marysville." Source: Perry County newspaper.
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