Barbara Bontrager

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From Brenda Horton

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Found her obit: BORNTREGER. On the 2d of October, in LaGrange Co., Ind., Barbara, wife of Dea. Joseph Borntreger of the Old Amish Church, aged 77 years, 5 months and 22 days. On the day preceding her death they went about ten miles with their son from Kansas to visit their daughter, where she was shortly after taken with heart disease. Her respiration was heavy and 21 hours after the attack she gently fell asleep in Jesus. The corpse was conveyed home, and on the 4th, followed by a large concourse of relatives and friends her remains were consigned to the grave. Appropriate remarks were made by the bishops A. A. Troyer and D. S. Kauffman from Heb. 4 and 1 Cor. 5: 1-10. She was born in Somerset Co., Pa., and accompanied the first party of Amish brethren who emigrated to Indiana in 1841. She was a good mother, and observed the teaching of the blessed Book, holding out faithfully to the end having accepted Christ as her Savior years ago. Her place was seldom vacant in the public worship of God. Her father and grandfather were both bishops as well as two of her sons, while another was a minister and another a deacon. She leaves her bereaved husband, 7 children, 61 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren; who mourn, it is true, yet not as such who have no hope. "Her works do follow her." Source: Herald of Truth, Vol. XXV, Number 20, 15 Oct 1888, pg. 319.

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From Brenda Horton

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Found her obit:
BORNTREGER. On the 2d of October, in LaGrange Co., Ind., Barbara, wife of Dea. Joseph Borntreger of the Old Amish Church, aged 77 years, 5 months and 22 days. On the day preceding her death they went about ten miles with their son from Kansas to visit their daughter, where she was shortly after taken with heart disease. Her respiration was heavy and 21 hours after the attack she gently fell asleep in Jesus. The corpse was conveyed home, and on the 4th, followed by a large concourse of relatives and friends her remains were consigned to the grave. Appropriate remarks were made by the bishops A. A. Troyer and D. S. Kauffman from Heb. 4 and 1 Cor. 5: 1-10. She was born in Somerset Co., Pa., and accompanied the first party of Amish brethren who emigrated to Indiana in 1841. She was a good mother, and observed the teaching of the blessed Book, holding out faithfully to the end having accepted Christ as her Savior years ago. Her place was seldom vacant in the public worship of God. Her father and grandfather were both bishops as well as two of her sons, while another was a minister and another a deacon. She leaves her bereaved husband, 7 children, 61 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren; who mourn, it is true, yet not as such who have no hope. "Her works do follow her." Source: Herald of Truth, Vol. XXV, Number 20, 15 Oct 1888, pg. 319.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 27 2024, 17:19:26 UTC