Shannon M. Thomas | Mostly Genealogy

Obituaries hold a lot of great information in them. I have an Obituary Event/Fact in Legacy.  I record the information from the newspaper and transcribe the obituary in the event. Here is the transcription of the obituary from the Benton Argus on 13 Jan 1927: Death of Miss Hannah Rutan Miss Hannah Rutan died at the home of her nephew, Mr. Ward Vandine, in Bloomsburg on Friday evening at 8 o'clock after an illness of one week.  She was first attacked by a heavy cold but it is thought she sustained a stroke of paralysis on Thursday night that was the direct cause of her death. She was 80 years of age last October and was a godly woman; more than 60 years of her life she has been a Sunday School Teacher and worker in the the church.  She was a member of the Christian church.  For several years past she was the teacher of the Mother's Bible Class of the Bloomsburg Church of Christ. Miss Rutan spent many years of her life as a resident of this Boroug...

 Not only can you find birth, death, and marriage information in newspapers but you can find articles about your ancestors and their families. Alvah Rutan's family held a reunion in 1928 {51 years after his death} but I found the article when I was searching a database for his name. The following article was in the Benton Argus in Benton, Pennsylvania on 20 September 1928. For easier reading here is what the article says :  Rutan Family Holds Meeting The descendants of Elder A. R. Rutan and their families met in the grove at Stillwater, Sept 3.  Two birthdays were celebrated: Enos A. Hartman, aged 76, and David Wenner, aged 81. It was decided to make this reunion an annual affair.  As the children of A. R. and Abigail Smith Rutan were all girls there are no descendants having the family name.  There are two girls still living and were in attendance at this reunion, Mrs. R. W. Lemons and Mrs. David Wenner. Those in attendance were: Bend...