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Mollie Romesburg

Mary Ann "Mollie" (Dumbauld) Romesburg was born on Aug. 13, 1846 in Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, PA, the daughter of Jonathan Cable and Elizabeth (Dull) Dumbauld. 

Unmarried at the age of 22 in about 1868 or '70, Mollie and Henry Lucas produced a son, who was given the name William Lucas. 

Within a year or two, in about 1872, Mollie wed William Romesburg (1853-1920), son of Jonathan (or "Jonas") and Rachel (Nicola) Romesburg. Mollie was seven years older than her spouse. 

They together bore three known children of their own, Minnie Brougher, Amelia Romesburg and George D. Romesburg.

The federal census of 1880 shows this family residing in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, with William earning a living as a farm laborer. Their next-door neighbors were Mollie's parents. By 1900, still in Upper Turkeyfoot, only George among their children remained in the household. Cousins William "Henry" and Rachel (McClintock) Younkin lived in an nearby dwelling that year. Circa 1908, the Romesburgs possessed or had access to her parents' family Bible. 

Felled by heart blockage, William died on Jan. 30, 1920, at the age of 67. 

Widowed and stricken with throat cancer in the summer of 1926, Mollie survived only a few months, and passed away in Upper Turkeyfoot on Nov. 12, 1926, at the age of 80. She was laid to rest in the Kingwood Odd Fellows Cemetery.

~ Son William Lucas ~

Son William Lucas (1868?-1937) was born in about 1868 or 1870. 

He was a longtime farm laborer in Kingwood and apparently never married. 

In 1900, at the age of 33, he boarded with his bachelor uncle Daniel Dumbauld in Upper Turkeyfoot and helped provide farm laborer. 

William spent the final nearly 22 years of his life in the Somerset County Home & Hospital, where he succumbed of pneumonia of the left and lower lung lobes at age 69 on Sept. 23, 1937. Burial was in Kingwood.

~ Daughter Minnie Belle (Romesburg) Brougher ~

Daughter Minnie Belle Romesburg (1873-1955) was born on March 2, 1873. 

At the age of 18, she wed 19-year-old Charles H. Brougher (1871-1957), son of Franklin and Harriet Brougher, on Aug. 2, 1891. 

Their four known sons were Dr. Floyd O. Brougher, Willis M. Brougher, Oscar Miles Brougher and Harry Melvin Brougher. 

The family lived in the Rockwood area. 

The Grim Reaper of death descended upon this family in 1946, when their 49-year-old married son Willis was killed after being thrown from his horse. 

Minnie died on April 10, 1955, at the age of 82. 

Charles survived her by two years and passed into eternity on March 5, 1957. Interment for both was in Rockwood's Fairview Cemetery.

Son Dr. Floyd O. Brougher (1891-1973) was born on Dec. 16, 1891. He married Millie Sanner ( ? - ? ) and became a physician, residing in Dover, DE. They had three daughters -- Laverne Berryhill, Lee Brink and Jean Garvey. Floyd died in Denver, CO at the age of 81 on March 23, 1973. His remains were brought back to Kingwood to rest in peace at the IOOF Cemetery. 

• Granddaughter Laverne Brougher wed (?) Berryhill.

• Granddaughter Lee Brougher tied the knot with (?) Brink.

• Granddaughter  Jean Brougher married (?) Garvey.

Son Oscar Miles "Shorty" Brougher (1902-2001) was born on Aug. 19, 1902 in Kingwood. He married a cousin, Gladys Kreger (of the family of John S. and Nancy [Younkin] Trimpey). Click on the link for more.

Son Willis M. Brougher (1897-1946) was born on April 22, 1897. He married Pauline Kreger (1900-1990), daughter of Charles S. and Edith (Meese) Kreger. They had one son, Ray K. Brougher. They resided in Kingwood and were farmers. In 1940, the Broughers went on a driving trip to Wisconsin and Oklahoma with Willis' brother Oscar and family to visit extended clan. One of their stops was Baraboo, WI, to visit a distant Trimpey uncle, and to Oklahoma to spend time with Pauline's Kreger relatives. in 1946, when their 49-year-old married son Willis was fatally injured when he was "thrown from his horse and trampled under its hoofs while preparing to plant potatoes," reported the Meyersdale Republican. "Shortly after the dinner hour Brougher harnessed his team and went to the farm of a neighbor to get a potato planter. When he reached the neighbor's home, the horse which he was riding shied at some object and reared, throwing Brougher to the ground, and tramping on his head, fracturing his skull." After Willis' tragic and untimely death, Pauline married again to Ross A. Brougher (1894-1973), son of Madison and Maggie (Meyers) Brougher of Kingwood. Ross had been wed once before with three children to that marriage, Thelma Brougher, Robert Brougher and Orville Brougher. Pauline was a member of the Kingwood Grange, Queen Victoria Rebekah Lodge of Kingwood, the Kingwood Church of God and the Willing Workers Sunday School class. She died at the age of 89 on New Year's Day 1990. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery, following a funeral led by Rev. James Monticue, with an obituary appearing in the Somerset Daily American.

• Grandson Ray K. Brougher ( ? - ? )

~ Son George D. Romesburg ~

Son George D. Romesburg (1881- ? ) was born in about 1881. 

When he was age 23, he married 22-year-old Minnie Catherine Sechler (1882-1967), daughter of Daniel and Susan (Gerhardt) Sechler, on Dec. 11, 1904. 

They became the parents of one son, Harold E. Romesburg. 

They lived in Markleton and were members of the Messiah Lutheran Church of New Centerville. Sadly, they endured the death of their son Harold died on July 2, 1966. 

Minnie passed away at age 84 on July 10, 1967, with burial in the Kingwood Odd Fellows Cemetery. An obituary was printed in the Meyersdale Republican. 

Son Harold E. Romesburg ( ? -1966)