Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Robert Charles Eberhart

Apr. 9, 1828 – Dec. 7, 1900

 

Mishawaka Enterprise
Friday, December 14, 1900

Robert Charles Eberhart, whose fatal illness was mentioned in last Friday's ENTERPRISE, passed away that evening at 5 o'clock at his home northeast of the city.

Mr. Eberhart was born in Yates county, N. Y., April 9, 1828 and moved to this county in 1936, where he had been engaged in farming. He was married three times and is survived by a young widow and four children, Palmer Eberhart of northeast of Mishawaka; Mrs. Wes Keeley, Dowagiac, Mich.; Mrs. Frank Gardner, of Mishawaka, and an infant son by the last wife, Cecil Robert Eberhart, aged three years. Five brothers, Charles Robert, a twin of the deceased; Fred G.; James C., of northeast of Mishawaka; John H., and Frank H. Eberhart, of this city, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bryson, of Elkhart, also survive.

The deceased was a member of the Willow Creek M. E. church and was respected by everyone. The funeral was held from the residence at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Ingalls, of the Elkhart M. E. circuit, officiating. Interment is in the Mishawaka city cemetery.