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Mary Emma <I>Vanderslice</I> Mosteller

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Mary Emma Vanderslice Mosteller

Birth
Valley Forge, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
19 Apr 1940 (aged 92)
Malvern, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Chester Springs, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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She is the d/o Thomas and Elmira "Mira" Zimmerman Vanderslice. She attended PA Female College, now Ursinus in Collegeville, PA. On Feb. 6, 1870 in Royersford, Montgomery Co., PA she married Benjamin Samuel Mosteller. They had 4 sons: Benjamin Herbert, George V., (John) Howard, Clyde L. and 2 daughters: Anna Mary and (Sarah) Eva.

Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
April 19, 1940

Mrs. Benjamin S. Mosteller

Mrs. Mary Emma Mosteller, widow of Benjamin S. Mosteller, passed away at her
home in Malvern, at seven o'clock this morning. She had been a resident of
Chester County all of her life, and she was in her 93rd year.

The deceased was graduated from the Pennsylvania Female College at Collegeville,
which was on the site of the present Ursinus College and just yesterday received
an invitation to a reunion of the college to be held there in May.

She had been ill since Monday of this week at which time she suffered a heart
attack.

Her husband died a number of years ago. Five children survive – Herbert, George,
Mary wife of Fred B. Battersby, Clyde, and Eva wife of A. Percival Henning.
Interment will be in St. Matthew's Lutheran Cemetery.
She is the d/o Thomas and Elmira "Mira" Zimmerman Vanderslice. She attended PA Female College, now Ursinus in Collegeville, PA. On Feb. 6, 1870 in Royersford, Montgomery Co., PA she married Benjamin Samuel Mosteller. They had 4 sons: Benjamin Herbert, George V., (John) Howard, Clyde L. and 2 daughters: Anna Mary and (Sarah) Eva.

Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
April 19, 1940

Mrs. Benjamin S. Mosteller

Mrs. Mary Emma Mosteller, widow of Benjamin S. Mosteller, passed away at her
home in Malvern, at seven o'clock this morning. She had been a resident of
Chester County all of her life, and she was in her 93rd year.

The deceased was graduated from the Pennsylvania Female College at Collegeville,
which was on the site of the present Ursinus College and just yesterday received
an invitation to a reunion of the college to be held there in May.

She had been ill since Monday of this week at which time she suffered a heart
attack.

Her husband died a number of years ago. Five children survive – Herbert, George,
Mary wife of Fred B. Battersby, Clyde, and Eva wife of A. Percival Henning.
Interment will be in St. Matthew's Lutheran Cemetery.


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  • Maintained by: Dixon In Dixie
  • Originally Created by: Dan Oh
  • Added: May 8, 2009
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36869236/mary_emma-mosteller: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Emma Vanderslice Mosteller (5 Sep 1847–19 Apr 1940), Find a Grave Memorial ID 36869236, citing Saint Matthew's Lutheran Cemetery, Chester Springs, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Dixon In Dixie (contributor 46977684).