Helena (Philbrook) Schermerhorn (1837-1925)

PHILBROOK, SCHERMERHORN, MARTIN, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/3/2022 at 12:47:11

From Nevada Evening Journal December 30, 1925 (page 3)

MRS. SCHERMERHORN BURIED

Former Resident Here Passed Away In Ohio.

The body of Mrs. Charles Schermerhorn, 88, early day resident of northwest Grant township, arrived here Tuesday forenoon over the Northwestern and was interred in the Nevada cemetery, following brief services at the grave, in charge of Rev. J. George Walz of Central Presbyterian church. The body of the husband was brought back here for interment a few years ago.

While the family had not lived here for many years and had no children buried in the local cemetery, it was because of associations of their early home in this community that this was chosen as their final resting place. Funeral services had been at the home of her nephew W. C. Philbrook, at Cardington, Ohio, Sunday afternoon.

Helena Philbrook, daughter of Cyrus and Ann (Martin) Philbrook, was born in Licking county, Ohio, April 21, 1837 and died at the home of her nephew W. C. Philbrook, Cardington, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1925, aged 88 years, 8 months and 1 day. She was married to Charles H. Schermerhorn, August 26, 1861, but he proceeded her in death passing on April 12, 1917 at their home in Bangor, Mich.

No children came to bless this union. The only surviving near relative being her sister, Mrs. D. H. Phillips of this city who is spending the winter in California and several nephews and nieces.

In the autumn after their marriage her husband entered the army, she accompanying him as a nurse and served in that capacity through the Civil war. At the close of the war they came to Nevada and located on a farm just west of here where they resided for 23 years. In 1897 they sold their farm and removed to Harvey, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. After a residence there of eight years they removed to Bangor, Mich., where they resided until shortly after the death of her husband when she broke up housekeeping came to make her home with her nephew W. C. Philbrook.

She was a member of the Order of Eastern Stars and the Womans Relief Corps of Bangor, Mish.