The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-01-03
Death Of Well-KnoWn Persons.

Mrs. Martha Ann Radcliffe, widow of
Samuel j. Radcliffe, a prominent merchant
OF Ellicott City, died suddenly December 80,
of heart trouble, aged "a years. She had been
tor many years prominently connected with
church work and was noted for her many
charitable acts She is survived by chill
dren, SO grandchildren and 6 great grand
of this city; Mrs. Annie johnson, Messrs.
Samuel E., George W., Charles P. and Thos.
3. Radcliffe, of Elicott City, and Mrs. w.
W. Radcliffe, of Baltimore. Mrs. Frank I.
Schaeffer, William Helm, Mrs. Harry Warner,
Mrs. Allen Sellers, Walter S., Samuel and
Lucy Helm, of this city, were her grandchil
dren.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reid, widow of Rev. Charles
A. Reid, died at her residence in Westminster
on Wednesday night, about 9 O'Clock, aged
IS years. She left no children, except Rev.
Wesley Z. Davis, AN adopted son. Her funeral
will take place this Saturday afternoon at 2
clock at Centenary Nj. Z. Church. The in
terment will be at Westminster Cemetery.
Rev. ID. g. Miller, her pastor, will be assisted
in the services by Rev. Joel Brown, d. D., Il
former pastor of Centenary Church, and other
NJ. E. ministers.
Mr.. Uriah Yinglng, of Mayberry, aged rs
years, l month and l6 days, died last Monday
dislocation and fracture of one of his large
toes, which was amputated, but which caused
him at times more or less trouble ever since.
About nine weeks ago gangrene set in, and
his advanced age made another amputation of
no avail. He was born and raised near Man
chester, Nd, after which he resided on farm
near Mayberry. He was member of the
Church of God, and attended regularly for a
period of over so years. and will be greatly
missed by the church, as well as the commu-
nifty. Politically he was Republican. In
erm ent took place on Thursday morning at
Mayberry church, services being conducted by
of Carrollton; Mr.. Saxton, of Woodsboro;J j.
d. Clark, Geo. Bowersox and J. N. Rodkey,
of Uniontown. He is survived by widow
and six children, namely-Mrs. VIM. Stone
sfer, of Harrisburg, Pa. ; Mrs. John Humbert,
of Middleburg, Md; Mrs. Jacob Marker, Ed
wand, James and Grant, of Mayberry.
Mrs. Elizabeth Latham Otter died Decem-
Der 81 at her home, 257 Robert street, Balti-
more, Nd. Mrs. Otter was born in Taneytown,
Carroll county, February 8, 1919. She was
the widow Of the late William Otter, who died
in Baltimore in 1883. Mrs. Otter is survived
by two of her children, Mrs. Charles G. Leef,
of Baltimore, and Mrs j. Willis Heard, of
Charlotte, n. G.. She also leaves four grand
Cuiiuiei anu eiSHt great ~ dhuCHlluleh.
Mr.. Henry S. Fink, who was for many years
in the wholesale grocery business at Eutaw
and Franklin streets, Baltimore, under the
name of Fink Bro. & Co., and later in the
wholesale tobacco trade at "a East Lombard
street, died of paralysis of the brain at his
home, 412 North Greene street. last Wednes
day afternoon. He was stricken one week
ago. Mr.. Fink was 76 years old and was born
in Littlestown, Pa. He is survived by the
following children: Mrs. Chas. E. Weikert,
Mrs. John F. O'Hara, Mrs. Joseph A. Luc-
chest, Misses Helen V. and Rosie E. Fink
and Messrs. William j., Charles A. and Thos.
F. Fink. His wife, who was Miss Rosanna
McSherry, died several years ago.
Mr. Vincent O'Bold, of McSherrystown,
Pa, died December %, last aged IS years,
months and IS days. He was one of the best
known men in Adams and York counties, and
also in upper Carroll. AS business man his
integrity was proverbia, and his charity en-
deared him to hundreds. All his family are
dead-wife and four children. About one
year ago Mr.. O'Bold decided the O'Bold man
sion farm to the Sisters of St. Joseph. This
farm contains about 200 acres of the finest
land in the Conewago valley, and adjoins the
borough of McSherrystown. On this farm the
O'Bold family settled when, under the guild
ance of Vincent's great grandfather, Sebastian
O'Bold, they emigrated to America from Ger
many. All the members of the family lie
buried in the cemetery of the Church of the
Sacred Heart at Conewago.