Advertisement

Maria Augusta “Miss Mysa” Huber

Advertisement

Maria Augusta “Miss Mysa” Huber

Birth
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
22 Jan 1928 (aged 71)
Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
View Source
Miss Maria A. Huber, last surviving member of the family of the late Dr. Henry S. and Priscilla Huber, members of an old Adams County family, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Mary Waidlick, Harrisburg, Sunday night, from heart disease. She was 71 years old on January 14.

Miss Huber, popularly known to all older residents of Gettysburg as Miss Mysa, lived in Gettysburg all her life until failing health forced her last September to give up her apartment in the Butt apartments on Carlisle Street and go with her niece, Mrs. Waidlick.

She is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Ella Huber, Springs Avenue. She also survived by a number of nieces and nephews, none of whom now reside in Gettysburg or vicinity. Her nephews include Melville; Donald and Henry Huber; James Ferguson and the Rev. Huber Ferguson, the latter at Washington, Pennsylvania.

As the youngest daughter of Doctor Huber, for years a practicing physician in Gettysburg, one of the organizers and first vice president of the Adams County Medical Society, June 14, 1873. Miss Huber lived most of her life in the Huber homestead opposite the Eagle hotel on Chambersburg Street, now the Kalbfleisch building. In recent years she has lived in an apartment in the Butt building.

A brother, the late John Huber conducted a drug store where Shuman's is now located, while another brother, the late J. Harry Huber, also operated several drug stores.

Miss Huber was a lifelong member of Christ Lutheran church. Services in Christ church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner officiating. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

(bio by: bcullison1)
Miss Maria A. Huber, last surviving member of the family of the late Dr. Henry S. and Priscilla Huber, members of an old Adams County family, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Mary Waidlick, Harrisburg, Sunday night, from heart disease. She was 71 years old on January 14.

Miss Huber, popularly known to all older residents of Gettysburg as Miss Mysa, lived in Gettysburg all her life until failing health forced her last September to give up her apartment in the Butt apartments on Carlisle Street and go with her niece, Mrs. Waidlick.

She is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Ella Huber, Springs Avenue. She also survived by a number of nieces and nephews, none of whom now reside in Gettysburg or vicinity. Her nephews include Melville; Donald and Henry Huber; James Ferguson and the Rev. Huber Ferguson, the latter at Washington, Pennsylvania.

As the youngest daughter of Doctor Huber, for years a practicing physician in Gettysburg, one of the organizers and first vice president of the Adams County Medical Society, June 14, 1873. Miss Huber lived most of her life in the Huber homestead opposite the Eagle hotel on Chambersburg Street, now the Kalbfleisch building. In recent years she has lived in an apartment in the Butt building.

A brother, the late John Huber conducted a drug store where Shuman's is now located, while another brother, the late J. Harry Huber, also operated several drug stores.

Miss Huber was a lifelong member of Christ Lutheran church. Services in Christ church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner officiating. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

(bio by: bcullison1)


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement