The Denver Tribune
Thursday, November 29, 1928
Denver, Miami County, IN
MEXICO LADY DIES.
Mrs. Joseph Berkheiser died at her home in Mexico at 1:40 o'clock Wednesday
morning, her death terminating two weeks illness from peritonitus. Mrs. Berkheiser was a
life-long resident of the vicinity of Mexico and was well known and highly esteemed
throughout the community.
Lydia Ann Sullivan was born in Williams County, Ohio, Decemer 2, 1851, the daughter
of Phillip and Rosanna Long Sullivan. Her parents moved to Mexico, Indiana, before she
was a year old and there she spent the seventy-six years of her life.
She was married, February 11, 1875, to Joseph Berkheiser, who with three sons
survives. The sons are Elmer Franklin, of Mexico; Charles Delbert, of Pueblo, Colo., and
James Monroe Berkheiser, of Indianapolis. She, also, leaves two sisters and two brothers:
Martha Kline, of Mexico; Sarah Dick, of Troy, Ohio, and Noah and Isaac Sullivan, of
Twelve Mile.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Saturday from the Mexico Baptist Church,
of which congregation she had been a member for fifty-two years. Rev. C. S. Davisson, of
Rochester, will be in charge. Interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. Rob't S.
Kline is the funeral director.