OBIT: Martha X. Eshleman, 1917, Cordelia, Lancaster County, PA

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MRS. MARTHA X. ESHLEMAN

Columbia, Feb. 11. – Mrs. Martha X. Eshleman, widow of Peter B. Eshleman, died 
at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at her home at Cordelia, aged 67 years.  Death 
was caused by a complication of diseases after an illness of three weeks.  
Surviving are four children; Nora, wife of Ziegler B. Putner, of Maytown; Annie, 
wife of Joseph H. Tyson, of Ironville; Barbara, wife of Charles A. Dresher, of 
Kinderhook, and Frederick, at home.  One sister and a brother also survive, Mrs. 
Barbara Hoffheins of Lancaster, and Ephraim Bard, of Ironville.  Deceased was a 
member of the Ironville United Brethren church for many years, where funeral 
services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.  Interment will be in 
the adjoining cemetery.

Mrs. Eshleman died just one week after her sister, Harriet Morgan, whose funeral 
was held from the same church Tuesday of last week.

Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, February 12, 1917