Sarah Elizabeth (Etsweiler) Hebel (1914 - 1993)

Born 26 Oct 1914 in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Sarah Elizabeth Etsweiler was born on 26 October 1914 in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, a daughter of George L. Etsweiler and Mayme A. (Eshenaur) Etsweiler of Millersburg.^[1][2][3]

The 1930 U.S. Census recorded her parents George L. Etsweiler, age 49, and Mayme A. Etsweiler, 51, at 257 Union Street in Millersburg with daughters Sarah E. Etsweiler, 15, and Anna M Etsweiler, 13. All were born in Pennsylvania to parents born in that same state. George was a retail merchant in the grocery business.^[4]

The 1940 U.S Census recorded her parents George L. Etsweiler, 57, and Mayme A. Etsweiler, 63, in their home at 257 Union Street with their unmarried daughters Sarah E. Etsweiler, 25, and Anna M. Etsweiler, 23. George was a merchant with his own store and had worked 75 hours in the previous week. Sarah, who had completed 4 years of college, was a teacher in a public school, and Anna, who had completed high school, was a clerk in a store.^[5]

On 14 August 1942, Sarah Elizabeth Etsweiler of Millersburg married John Dickel Hebel of Liverpool, Pennsylvania, in Millersburg. According to their marriage license application, Sarah was age 27 and a teacher, born in Millersburg, the daughter of George Lever Etsweiler and Mayme (Eshenaur) Etsweiler, residents of Millersburg. Her father was a grocer, born in Millersburg, and her mother was a housewife, born in Oberlin, Pennsylvania. John, also age 27, was in the U.S. Army. He was born in Liverpool, Pennsylvania, to parents Wesley Evan Hebel and Florence (Crow) Hebel who were both also born in Liverpool. His father was a farmer. It was the first marriage for both. The marriage officiant was Chas. L. Mogel, minister.^[1]

On 27 August 1946 Sarah (Etsweiler) Hebel gave birth at Harrisburg Hospital to twin girls, born premature at 29 weeks gestation. One of the twins died on the day of her birth and the other succumbed on the following day.^[6]

The 1950 U.S. Census recorded John D. Hebel and Sah (sic) E. Hebel, both age 35, in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, with their daughter Anna E. Hebel, born the previous August. John Hebel was a staff engineer for the telephone company. He had completed 4 years of college and had worked 52 hours in the week before the census.^[7]

Sarah E. Hebel died in November 1993. Her last place of residence in Social Security Administration records was Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania.^[2][3] Sarah E. Hebel is buried in Hunters Valley Cemetery in Liverpool, Pennsylvania, where her grave is marked by a stone that also marks the grave of her husband, John D. Hebel. A nearby stone memorializes the two unnamed infant daughters who were born and died in August 1946.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Dauphin County Marriage Licenses, 1942. Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852-1968 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61381/images/TH-266-11782-149351-79. Note: License issued 1 August 1942.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/41023700:60901.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3693&h=26591104
4. ↑ United States Census, 1930. Enumeration sheet for Millersburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0084; FHL microfilm: 2341761. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4639358_01042
5. ↑ United States Census, 1940. Enumeration sheet for Millersburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03484; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 22-101. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/M-T0627-03484-00318
6. ↑ Pennsylvania Certificates of Death 68449 and 68450, Baby Girl Hebel (A) and Baby Girl Hebel (B). Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 067351-070200. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/5164/images/42410_3421606190_0679-01632 and https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/5164/images/42410_3421606190_0679-01633. Note: Parents' address is recorded as 2603 Broad Street, Penbrook, Pennsylvania.
7. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Middle Paxton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: 93; Sheet Number: 24; Enumeration District: 22-50. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/244112029:62308
8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133058394/sarah-elizabeth-hebel : accessed 17 July 2022), memorial page for Sarah Elizabeth Etzweiler Hebel (26 Oct 1914–22 Nov 1993), Find a Grave Memorial ID 133058394, citing Hunters Valley Cemetery, Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by edward smith (contributor 47632005) .