Question

Trying to trace Lavina Keller Yoder, who died during or shortly after childbirth(gave birth to Susannah)around 1858.

Comments

WHERE?

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I believe Somerset County Pennsylvania.

Answer 1

http://www.yodernewsletter.org/amfams/yr239.html Somewhere on this page, he says he found a piece of paper where Sarah Yoder asks Tobias Speicher to be the guardian of orphaned Susanna.

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Yes, this would be the same Susannah.  we are unable to locate her father Henry, who died when she was 2 or 3; or her mother Lavina.  We think that Susannah and her father  were living in a German settlement in Preston County when he died.

Answer 2

Someone on ancestry.com shows her parents as jacob keller and Elizabeth Clark, Somerset Co, Pa

Here is what we have on the Yoder Newsletter website- Chris Yoder, Editor (DBH= Desc of Barbara Hostetler and Christian Stiutzman)

YR23973- Henry Yoder (11/29/1835 SP-2/__/1865 GM Oakland,Md)
m Lavina Keller ( - )(DBH574)
YR239731- Susan ( 1865- ) m
David Bell ( - ) (DBH575) res Somerset,Pa
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While looking through an estate file, I found this one piece of paper. I
thought it might help someone. I am saying it is Yoder because that is what
it looks like. But if anyone knows differently, I would appreciate knowing.
File# 67 1866
Petition Sarah Yoder for guardian for Susanna Yoder
23rd April 1866--- Tobias Speicher appointed guardian.

To the Judges of the Orphans Court of Somerset County Penna
The Petition of Sarah Yoder grandmother of Susanna Yoder respectfully that
said Susanna is an orphan, her father Henry Yoder and Mother LivinaYoder
both being dead. She further represents that she is heir to a small estate
and that no person has been appointed by the court and take charge of her
person or estate, and she ?fore asks the appointment of Tobias Speicher as
her guardian and she will (Cannot make out the next three words-Looks like
pay & c) her mark Sarah Yoder
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