Miami Union

February 23, 1911 

RINEHART, MRS. ESTHER BRUMBAUGH - Mrs. Esther Brumbaugh Rinehart, widow of Daniel Rinehart, died at her home at Union, Ohio, Friday afternoon at 3.  She had been a resident of Montgomery county for 93 1/2 years and was born within a mile of her late home in 1817, making her at the time of her death the oldest resident in Randolph township.  Her marriage to Daniel Rinehart was in 1839.  They purchased the farm, yet known as the Daniel Rinehart farm, where they lived for nearly sixty years, and where Daniel Rinehart died 11 years ago.  Of ten children, three sons and two daughters survive, all residents of this county.  They are Mrs. Sarah Spitler, wife of Levi Spitler, who with her husband, is spending the winter in Texas; John H. Rinehart, who resides near the home farm; Mrs. Aaron Sollenberger, who lives on the adjoining farm and with whom the decedent lived for the past ten years; Dr. H. D. Rinehart, a physician of Dayton and N. W. Rinehart, who resides on his farm along the D. C. & P. traction line.  The funeral of Mrs. Rinehart was held Monday morning at 9 o'clock at the Salem church east of Phillipsburg.  Burial was in Bethel cemetery.

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