Seized with cramps while bathing in the Monongahela river at Dunlevy Wednesday afternoon;July 26;1916;Miss Bertha Lenhart;aged 21 years;the daughter of Capt.and Mrs.Ernest Lenhart of Belle Vernon and a well known school and Sunday school teacher;was drowned. The body was recovered by Raymond Furnier of Allenport who dove in about nine feet of water. Miss Lenhart was a member of one of the old and prominent families of Belle Vernon. Capt.Lenhart;her father;is a steamboat captain having been in charge of the boat T.J.Wood for some years. Besides her father and mother;she leaves one brother;Edward;of Monongahela and the following sisters;Mrs.Thomas Hewitt of McKeesport;Mrs.Earl Hewitt of Mount Vernon;Ohio;and Misses Hazel;Lenora;Lorena and Maude at home. She was a graduate of California State Normal. She has been teaching three years in the North Belle Vernon schools;where she was highly regarded as an instructor. Miss Lenhart was well known in Charleroi where she had frequently visited with friends. Rev.B.C.Hibler of the Belle Vernon Christian Church conducted her funeral services at the Lenhart home in Belle Vernon on Friday;July 28;1916. A large number of friends attended her funeral. (She was moved to the Belle Vernon Cemetery from Fayette City Cemetery)

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