Submitted by: Brenda Horton
Mrs. Emma Adelia Replogle, age 69, rural route No. 2, Buchanan, Mich, a South Bend resident until eight months ago, died in her home Sunday evening at 5:30 o'clock following a week's illness of apoplexy. She was born in LaPorte county Oct. 20, 1863 and was married Mach 19, 1882 in the same county to William H. Wiltfong, who survives. She is survived also by six children; Wilbert, Walter, Nelson, Mrs. Edward Spansail, Mrs. Clara Riedel and Mrs. Edward Starkweather, all of South Bend; 10 grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Replogle of South Bend and Mrs. Charles VanDusen of Iron, Mich. The body may be viewed in the residence where a prayer service will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock prior to funeral services in the Sauktown, Ind, church at 2:30 o'clock, with Rev. Waldemar Goffeney, of the Zion Evangelical church, South Bend officiating. Burial will be in the Sauktown cemetery.
Source: The South Bend Tribune, 4 Apr 1933, col.1, pg.7, sec.2