Samuel M. PLETSCHER

                   Stone reads: Mrs. J.A. PLTECHER DIED  Mar 31, 1852 AGED 67Y 7M 29D
                  

                   November 1870 Herald of Truth: On the 13th of October, in Elkhart Co., Ind., JACOB PLETHER, aged 80 years, 7  months and 2 days. funeral services by J. Nusbaum, Eli Mishler, S. Yoder and D. Brenneman, from Rom. 4:8.  Also October 26th, Barbara [Nestlerode] Pletcher, consort of the above, aged 72 years , 10 months and 1 day.  Funeral services by Jacob Wisler and D. Brenneman from Rev. 14:13.  Their whole posterity consists of 17 children, 100 grandchildren, and 33 great grandchildren.  The aged father and mother have for many years been faithful memberrs of the Mennonite church.  So eager has been their desire after the bread and water of life, and so earnest have they been in their efforts to serve God to the end, that feeble old age did not restrain them from atending the service of God in the sanctruary.  Many have doubtless been enocrouaged to faithfulness by their example.  The mind of the true worshipper in the sanctruary has been elevated and prompted to bless God at the entrance of the aged father and brother with a staff in each hand assisted by kind friends, and followed by the aged sister, whose bodily form was bowed down in such a manner that she "could in no wise lift up herself."  One glimps of the aged mother would naturally lead the mind of the Bible Sutdent to think of the daughter of Abraham who was bound and bowed down for eighteen years and in a miraculous manner was loosed, and made straight, by the power of the Savior.  Many relatives and friends followed their bodily remains to their last resting place.