OBITUARY: Peter Ess; Grove, Allegany co., NY 
surname: Ess, Hark, Mehlenbacker, Gruber

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Submitted Date: May 27, 2004
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Unknown Nunda Newspaper (date?)
Gone To His Reward

A good father, a kind husband, and honored citizen, a noble Christian man, 
passed peacefully to his eternal rest Saturday at seven o'clock P. M. This can 
be truthfully said of Peter Ess of Grove, Alle. Co. NY, who died at the ripe 
age of seventy-eight years and two months. Deceased was a native of France, 
who at an early age caught the inspiration that has fired the souls of tens of 
thousands of men, and women for generations past, to brave the dangers of the 
deep, bid good by to native land, home and friends and seek their fortune in 
the "land of the free and the home of the brave." In the year 1849 at the age 
of thirty-five he married Miss Catherine Hark, of Nunda, who still survives 
him. Their union has been a blessed one, forty-three years they have traveled 
lifes journey together, sharing each others sorrows, sharing each others joys.

Eight children blessed their union, four sons and four daughters, five of whom 
are left to mourn his loss and who have grown up to womanhood and manhood. 
Messrs. Frank and Charles Ess of Grove, Mrs. Sophia Mehlenbacker and Mrs. 
Gruber of White Settlement, and their youngest son George, who lives at home 
and upon whom this widow and mother must lean in her declining years.

Thirty years ago this happy and determined couple left the village of Nunda 
and sought a home in "grand old Allegany" upon which they have lived and 
improved until death has severed the twain.

At about that time he gave his heart to Christ and became identified with the 
Evangelical Association of German Settlement of which he has been a constant 
member, ever ready with his means to help support the preaching of the word 
and with his life hid in Christ he has witnessed for the Master helping his 
weaker brother and by letting the truth shine he has in God's own way pointed 
precious souls to the "Lamb which taketh away the sin of the world." In his 
last hours he was happy in a Saviours love and was fully conscious of his 
everlasting arms underneath him as he went down into the valley and shadow of 
death.

"Servants of God, well done,
Thy Glorious warfare's past.
The battle's fought, the victory's won;
And thou art crowned at last."

Additional Comments:
This was my great great-grandfather.