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Another Old and Esteemed Citizen Who Will be Missed -- Funeral Saturday.
At the family residence on Mexico street yesterday morning at about 4 o'clock, Mrs. Geo. J.
Loevenguth, one of our old residents and a woman who was greatly beloved among many friends,
passed peacefully to her Heavenly reward. Deceased had been in failing health for several years,
but was able to be about until a month ago when she suffered a stroke of paralysis. She rallied
from this, but was stricken with another last Saturday, from which time on to the close of her
existence her vitality and strength gradually failed.
Mrs. Loevenguth, who was formerly Susan R. Pilkington, was born in Blackburn, England, September
17, 1844. Her parents were John and Julia Pilkington. With her death the last of a family of
eleven children have passed on. Deceased came to this country with her parents when she was six
years of age. First they located in Sauquiot for ten years, and then moved to the Falvey
homestead on Florence Hill. She lived here until she united in marriage with George J. Loevenguth
on Oct. 18, 1866, after which she moved to the farm now owned by Joseph F. Dupont, just west of
this village, where she lived until four years ago when they moved to their home on Mexico
street.
Mrs. Loevenguth was a member of Trinity Episcopal church. She was a fine christian lady and
dearly beloved by all who knew her. A noble mother, a true friend and good neighbor her memory
will long be revered.
Besides her husband she leaves a daughter, Miss Augusta Loevenguth, a teacher at Glens Falls
High School; three sons, Herbert of Mariposa, Cal., Prof. Jay E. Loevenguth, principal of the
High School at Cattaraugus, and Earle B. Loevenguth, of the office force of F. H. Conant's Sons,
Inc. this village.
The funeral will be held at 2:30 Saturday afternoon from her late home and interment made in
Forest Park Cemetery.
LOEVENGUTH -- In Camden, N.Y., February 12, 1919, Susan Rebecca Pilkington, wife of George J. Loevenguth, in her 75th year.