The date of birth shown above is from Ezra Eby's biographical history of Waterloo Township (1895). However, the age at death in a death record is 74 years, 6 months, 24 days, suggesting Elizabeth was born on July 13, 1818. Furthermore, if the age at death inscribed on the gravestone and reported in the following newspaper notice (74 years, 5 months, 7 days) is correct, then Elizabeth was born on August 30, 1818.∼Newspaper Death Notice
CRESSMAN - On the 6th of February, 1893, in Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., Ont., Elizabeth Cressman, aged 74 y., 5 m., 7 d. Buried on the 9th in Shantz's grave yard. Funeral services by Amos Cressman from Matt. 5: 6 and Tobias Bowman from Heb. 4: 9. The deceased was a faithful sister in the church since her youth. She was never married. J.B. Schmitt
Herald of Truth , Vol. XXX, No. 5, March 1, 1893 - Page 86, 87
CRESSMAN - On the 6th of February, 1893, in Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., Ont., Elizabeth Cressman, aged 74 y., 5 m., 7 d. Buried on the 9th in Shantz's grave yard. Funeral services by Amos Cressman from Matt. 5: 6 and Tobias Bowman from Heb. 4: 9. The deceased was a faithful sister in the church since her youth. She was never married. J.B. Schmitt
Herald of Truth , Vol. XXX, No. 5, March 1, 1893 - Page 86, 87
The date of birth shown above is from Ezra Eby's biographical history of Waterloo Township (1895). However, the age at death in a death record is 74 years, 6 months, 24 days, suggesting Elizabeth was born on July 13, 1818. Furthermore, if the age at death inscribed on the gravestone and reported in the following newspaper notice (74 years, 5 months, 7 days) is correct, then Elizabeth was born on August 30, 1818.∼Newspaper Death Notice
CRESSMAN - On the 6th of February, 1893, in Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., Ont., Elizabeth Cressman, aged 74 y., 5 m., 7 d. Buried on the 9th in Shantz's grave yard. Funeral services by Amos Cressman from Matt. 5: 6 and Tobias Bowman from Heb. 4: 9. The deceased was a faithful sister in the church since her youth. She was never married. J.B. Schmitt
Herald of Truth , Vol. XXX, No. 5, March 1, 1893 - Page 86, 87
CRESSMAN - On the 6th of February, 1893, in Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., Ont., Elizabeth Cressman, aged 74 y., 5 m., 7 d. Buried on the 9th in Shantz's grave yard. Funeral services by Amos Cressman from Matt. 5: 6 and Tobias Bowman from Heb. 4: 9. The deceased was a faithful sister in the church since her youth. She was never married. J.B. Schmitt
Herald of Truth , Vol. XXX, No. 5, March 1, 1893 - Page 86, 87
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Elizabetha Cressman/ gest. 6 Feb. 1893/ Im alter von/ 74 Jah. 5 Mo. 7 Tage/ [German verse]/
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