Lancaster County PA Obituaries and Death Notices
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Mathias Ault
The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
October 3, 1821
Died on Wednesday, the 13th ult., in Bart township, Lancaster county, Mr. Mathias Ault, in the 105th year of his age. Mr. Ault came to America in 1752, a servant to General Deshee. He was a shoemaker by trade; and we are creditably informed, that 3 years before his death, he made five pair of shoes a week with ease. - Paradise Hornes
Russell Otis Bender
Boy Is Fatally Crushed Between Farm Wagon, Post
Lancaster, PA, Today (AP) Ten year old Russell Otis Bender died yesterday in Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital of injuries sustained Tuesday when he was crushed between a farm wagon and a post on a farm near Mt. Joy, Pa. Deputy Coroner Dr. Charles P. Stahr said the boy died as a result of a ruptured stomach. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bender of Mt. Joy. [Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) Friday Evening, September 3, 1948 - Contributed by Nancy Piper]
Joseph Denlinger
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
May 28 1823 Page 2
Lancaster, Pa., May 19
Suicide - On Wednesday last, Joseph Denlinger, of Mt. Pleasant, between this city and Columbia, in a state of mental derangement, put a period to his existence by cutting his throat with a razor. - Free Press
William Dickson
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 22 1823 Page 3
Died in the city of Lancaster Pa, Mr. William Dickson, editor of the Lancaster intelligencer, in the 59th year of his age, after an illness of 8 or 9 days. The deceased, who was the editor of the Intelligencer for upwards of 20 years, was truly a good man.
John Joseph Henry
The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, May 8, 1811
Died in Lancaster on the 15th of April, in the 53d year of his age, John Joseph Henry, Esq., late President of the 3d Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Mary (Reifsynder) Hoffman
Contribured by Christine Walters
Mary (Reifsynder) Hoffman
Mary Hoffman, 96, formerly of Morgantown, died Saturday of natural causes at Zerbe Sisters Nursing Center Inc., where she was a resident.
She had been the oldest member of St. John's Center Lutheran Church, East Earl. She was a member of a fire company auxiliary and a Morgantown senior citizens group. Born in Churchtown, she was a daughter of the late Martin and Mary (Coldren) Reifsnyder. She was married to the late George S. Hoffman.
Surviving are a daughter, Dorothy M., married to James F. Harner of Morgantown. A sister and three brothers preceded her in death.
Source: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster PA 1 Jun 1999
John William Kittia
The Adams Centinel, Gettysburg, PA
June 24, 1801
Died in the borough of Lancaster, on Sunday the 7th inst., in the 49th year of his age, after a lingering illness, John William Kittita, Esq., late representative from that county, in the Congress of the United States.
John Lorenz
Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 20 1822 Page 1
Lancaster, Pa. Nov. 7
Another Distressing Accident
John Lorenz, a young man residing a few miles from this city, accidentally shot himself, on Saturday last. He was endeavoring to frighten a rabbit from a thicket, and forcing the butt end of his gun in for that purpose, something touched the trigger and lodged the contents of the gun in his breast. He has been married but about three months. His parents reside in this city. - Free Press
Infant Daughter Macsfiarran
The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
September 1, 1819
We are sorry to hear that an infant daughter of Mr. James Macsfiarran, in Little Britain, was killed by lightning on the 13th inst., while playing with an iron chain, before the door of her father's dwelling. It is remarkable, that no rain was falling within some miles of the place, at the time of this fatal occurance - Lan. Intel.
Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 13 1822 Page 3
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 7
Melancholy Accident. On Monday last, while John M'Anneny, of Strasburg township, was employed in loading logs on a wagon, his head was unfortunately forced between two logs, which produced a fracture of the scull. He survived but a few hours. He was an industrious man, about 35 years of age. - Free Press.
John McGinley
August 28 1811
Died on Friday last, in Lancaster county, John McGinley, Esq. of this borough. Mr. McGinley's disease was a consumption with which he had been afflicted a long time. He left this place a few days before his decease for Long Beach in hopes of a restoration of his health.
The Adams Centinel, Gettysburg, PA
June 24, 1801
Died in the borough of Lancaster, on Thursday the 4th inst., Frederick Augustus Murlenberg, Esq., Receiver General in the Land office Department of Pennsylvnia
George Price
The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
October 10, 1821
Died on Monday morning, the 1st instant, Mr. George Price, Editor of the Free Press, Lancaster, Pa., in the 29th year of his age.
The Lycoming Gazette, Williamsport, PA
October 16, 1821
Died in Lancaster, on the morning of the 1st inst., Mr. Geo. Price, printer and editor of the Free Press, in the 29th year of his age.
Thomas H Reifsnyder
Contribured by Christine Walters
Thomas H Reifsnyder
Death from Small Pox --
With pain, surprise and sorrow, we are compelled to chronicle the death of Prof. Thomas H. Reifsnyder, of Churchtown, from that loathsome and fatal disease, smallpox. He lately attended the Reading market and there contracted the disease, from which he died on Thursday morning and was buried in the afternoon by undertaker Weaver, of Churchtown, at Centre Church, without any ceremonies.
Mr. Reifsnyder was a man that stood as a prominent and shining light in this world, before all who came in contact with him. He was known throughout the eastern end of the county for his moral and good influence that he exerted in all spheres of life; whether in church, in the school room, or on the farm, he was always, the same, a model for others to copy. He was a devout member of the Reformed (Center) Church, and the leading member of the Sunday school. Many were the lessons of Holy Writ that he taught there to the young mind in whose estimation he stood high as a Christian and scholar and who now mourn his untimely death in the prime of life, and yet, cut down by a contagious disease, it made it impossible to pay due respect and honor to his remains. For a number of years he had been engaged in teaching school, and being very successful, he became principal of the Churchtown Academy, where he taught a long time, and many are living to-day who can testify as being once his students, and the kindness and instruction which they received during their school days, he being always willing to solve and explain all knotty and difficult questions.
May his good deeds, his noble acts and his moral influence that he left behind, live forever as the proudest monument ever erected in memory of one who is no more. A wife and three children, who have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement, are left of the once happy household to mourn the death of a husband and father.
Source: Jodi Reifsnyder Adrian
Mrs. Catharine A. Snyder
The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, March 28, 1810
Lancaster, March 17
Died on Thursday morning last, at Lancaster, Mrs. Catharine A. Snyder, (wife of Simon Snyder, Esq., Governor or this commonwealth in the 33d year of her age. Her complaint was of the consumptive kind. … On Saturday her remains were interred in the cemterey of the German Reformed Church, at Lancaster, attended by the Speakers and Members of both Houses of the Legislature, and a vast concourse of citizens.
George E. Steiger
LANCASTER
Fatally Wounded
York, Pa., Today (AP) George E. Steiger, 25 of near Lancaster was fatally wounded while hunting near here late yesterday. His gun fell from his hands and discharged. [Lebanon Daily News, Thursday Evening, November 5, 1931, Page 4 - Transcribed by Nancy Piper]
Mrs. Elizabeth Stouffer
Henry News Republican, Henry IL May 5, 1881
In Bart, Lancaster county, Pa., April 24, Elizabeth Stouffer, 63.
Mrs. Stouffer was the mother of 15 children, 12 of whom, with the husband, survive to mourn hr loss. Five reside in this vicinity, three sons, John, Isaac and Gabriel, and two daughters, Mrs. J. E. Anthony of this city, and Mrs. J. B. McIlwain who resides on the Rollins farm.
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