# ID: I28059
# Name: Rebecca Ann BRANDYBERRY
# Sex: F
# Birth: 14 FEB 1868 in Monroe, Adams, Indiana; obit
# Birth: FEB 1869 in Monroe Twp, Adams Co, IN
# Death: 7 JUL 1947 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana
# Reference Number: 28059

Father: Alexander BRANDYBERRY b: 1833 in Stark Co, OH #26232446
Mother: Sarah Jane EVERHART b: 1837 in OH #26232524

Marriage #1 Henry Elmer URICK b: 14 MAR 1867 in Adams Co, IN

* Married: 18 AUG 1891 in Adams Co, IN
* Married: 28 AUG 1891 in Adams Co, IN

Berne Witness, Adams Co, IN; Friday, 9 July 1948
RITES HERE SATURDAY FOR WOMAN, WHO UNKNOWN TO HER FAMILY DIED A YEAR AGO - Body of Mrs. Rebecca Ann Urick, 79, Returned Here from Indiana University; Sent There from Richmond Where She Died July 7, 1947
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Yager Funeral Home here for Mrs. Rebecca Ann Urick, 79, a life-long resident of this community. Rev. L. G. Wright of Geneva will officiate and burial will be in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. The body was returned to the Yager Mortuary today from Bloomington and will be taken to the funeral home Saturday morning.

WOMAN DIES A YEAR AGO
Announcement today of the funeral services for Mrs. Urick brought to light one of the strangest cases of this type in the annals of Adams county. Mrs. Urick died July 7, 1947 at the Fasthaven hospital at Richmond. Members of her family were unaware of her death until recently when they went to Richmond and inquired as to her condition. They were told that Mrs. Uhrick had died in July of last year.
Following Mrs. Uhrick's death the body was shipped from Richmond to Indiana University at Bloomington for study by medical students. When inquiry was made from proper officials at Indiana University it was disclosed that the body was still there in good state of preservation and had not yet been used for research work. Members of the Uhrick family contacted the Yager Mortuary here and arrangements were made to return the body here for burial.
Mrs. Uhrick, records show, entered the Adams county infirmary November 7, 1941. She was transferred to Easthaven hospital June 20, 1947, after a sanity hearing conducted by two physicians. She was committed to the Easthaven hospital by the late J. Fred Fruchte, then judge of the Adams circuit court.
Members of the family charge they were unaware that Mrs. Uhrick had been transferred from the county infirmary to Richmond and did not learn of this until a year after the transfer had been made when some members of the family went to the Richmond hospital.
Frank Kitson, superintendent of the county infirmary told the Witness that he was never informed by the authorities of the Richmond institution that Mrs. Uhrick had died, neither were members of the Uhrick family informed. Mr. Kitson said on other such occasions the Richmond hospital had always informed him and consulted with him in the disposition of the body. Why this was not done in the case of Mrs. Uhrick remains the big mystery in this strange case.
Mrs. Uhrick was born at Monroe February 14, 1868, the daughter of Alick and Sarah Everhart Brandyberry. She was married to Elmer Uhrick and he preceded in death January 25, 1941. Mrs. Uhrick resided in Geneva for some time before entering the county home.
She was a member of the Winchester U. B. church.
Surviving are two sons, Vern Uhrick, Berne route 2, and Edward Uhrick, Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. Isabelle Uhrick, Dunkirk; Mrs. David Springer, Anderson; a brother John Brandyberry, Jonesborough, Ark.; 18 (end of article cut off)