Rebecca was the fourth child of Christopher and Rebecca (Waltz) Hepler.
She married David Horner on Apr. 3, 1833. David and Rebecca had ten children: Jacob, Mary "Polly" (Miller), John, Elizabeth (Simpson), Henry Harrison, Christopher Myers, David, Phoebe (Lint, Fike), Eli and Cyrus. The Horners owned a farm near Stahlstown, then the Walnut Hill Farm near Donegal, but this writer doesn't know whether the Walnut Hill of the cemetery is the same as the one of the farm.
Fallen Asleep
Blessed are the dead which lie in the Lord
In the Middle Creek Congregation, Somerset Co., Pa., May 22, 1893, from the effects of a palsy stroke, after only a few days illness, Rebecca Funk, aged 80 years, 8 months and 10 days. Funeral by Eld. Josiah Berkley, at the residence of the writer; after which she was buried at Walnut Hill cemetery, Westmoreland Co., Pa., by the side of her first husband, David Horner.
--W.H. Miller [husband of Mary, her eldest daughter]
The Gospel Messenger (Huntingdon, Pa.), vol. 31, no. 27, 11 Jul. 1893, p. 430, col. 3.
She married David Horner on Apr. 3, 1833. David and Rebecca had ten children: Jacob, Mary "Polly" (Miller), John, Elizabeth (Simpson), Henry Harrison, Christopher Myers, David, Phoebe (Lint, Fike), Eli and Cyrus. The Horners owned a farm near Stahlstown, then the Walnut Hill Farm near Donegal, but this writer doesn't know whether the Walnut Hill of the cemetery is the same as the one of the farm.
Fallen Asleep
Blessed are the dead which lie in the Lord
In the Middle Creek Congregation, Somerset Co., Pa., May 22, 1893, from the effects of a palsy stroke, after only a few days illness, Rebecca Funk, aged 80 years, 8 months and 10 days. Funeral by Eld. Josiah Berkley, at the residence of the writer; after which she was buried at Walnut Hill cemetery, Westmoreland Co., Pa., by the side of her first husband, David Horner.
--W.H. Miller [husband of Mary, her eldest daughter]
The Gospel Messenger (Huntingdon, Pa.), vol. 31, no. 27, 11 Jul. 1893, p. 430, col. 3.
Rebecca was the fourth child of Christopher and Rebecca (Waltz) Hepler.
She married David Horner on Apr. 3, 1833. David and Rebecca had ten children: Jacob, Mary "Polly" (Miller), John, Elizabeth (Simpson), Henry Harrison, Christopher Myers, David, Phoebe (Lint, Fike), Eli and Cyrus. The Horners owned a farm near Stahlstown, then the Walnut Hill Farm near Donegal, but this writer doesn't know whether the Walnut Hill of the cemetery is the same as the one of the farm.
Fallen Asleep
Blessed are the dead which lie in the Lord
In the Middle Creek Congregation, Somerset Co., Pa., May 22, 1893, from the effects of a palsy stroke, after only a few days illness, Rebecca Funk, aged 80 years, 8 months and 10 days. Funeral by Eld. Josiah Berkley, at the residence of the writer; after which she was buried at Walnut Hill cemetery, Westmoreland Co., Pa., by the side of her first husband, David Horner.
--W.H. Miller [husband of Mary, her eldest daughter]
The Gospel Messenger (Huntingdon, Pa.), vol. 31, no. 27, 11 Jul. 1893, p. 430, col. 3.
She married David Horner on Apr. 3, 1833. David and Rebecca had ten children: Jacob, Mary "Polly" (Miller), John, Elizabeth (Simpson), Henry Harrison, Christopher Myers, David, Phoebe (Lint, Fike), Eli and Cyrus. The Horners owned a farm near Stahlstown, then the Walnut Hill Farm near Donegal, but this writer doesn't know whether the Walnut Hill of the cemetery is the same as the one of the farm.
Fallen Asleep
Blessed are the dead which lie in the Lord
In the Middle Creek Congregation, Somerset Co., Pa., May 22, 1893, from the effects of a palsy stroke, after only a few days illness, Rebecca Funk, aged 80 years, 8 months and 10 days. Funeral by Eld. Josiah Berkley, at the residence of the writer; after which she was buried at Walnut Hill cemetery, Westmoreland Co., Pa., by the side of her first husband, David Horner.
--W.H. Miller [husband of Mary, her eldest daughter]
The Gospel Messenger (Huntingdon, Pa.), vol. 31, no. 27, 11 Jul. 1893, p. 430, col. 3.
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The tombstone has sunk. Thanks to Barbara B. for exposing the lower portion which shows Rebecca's age.
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