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Huntington Herald Obit; Oct. 2, 1949
Mrs.Amanda Tharp, 83, a resident of Warren for the last eight years, died at 2:15 a. m.
Saturday at her home in that town. She had been seriously ill two weeks. Death was caused
by arterial sclerosis and arthritis. Mrs. Tharp was born May 12, 1866, at Peru to
Lewis and Rebecca Dillinger Laudenschlager. She married Amos Tharp at Peru May 9, 1889.
The husband died September 4, 1940.
Mrs. Tharp was a former resident of Jackson township. Wells county.
Surviving are three children, Frank L. Tharp, Seminole. Okla.; Alvin A. Tharp, Leo, and
Mrs. Hilda R. Swager, Anderson. There are eight grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren
and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Kirby, Wabash. One sister, one brother and one grandchild are
dead. - The body was removed to the H. Brown and Son funeral home at Warren and was
returned Saturday evening to the Tharp residence where friends may call. Funeral services
will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the residence with the Rev. M. E. Kessler, pastor of
the Warren Methodist church, officiating.
Burial will be at Woodlawn cemetery.