STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WENDESDAY, July 28, 1897, page 4, column 3

NANCY GUNSAULLUS SHORTER, 15 Dec 1813 - 11 Jul 1897 (picture included)

   DIED at her home northwest of Hudson, July 11, 1897, Mrs. Nancy 
Shorter, aged 83 years, 6 months and 26 days.
   Nancy Gunsaullus was born in Semfronans(?), Cayuza Co., New York, 
Dec. 15, 1813.  When four years of age she moved wih her parents to 
Richland county, Ohio, where on Nov. 12, 1835, she was united in 
marriage by the Rev. Arbeth Nott to Jacob Brink Shorter, and to them 
were born six sons and four daughters, three of whom preceded her to 
the other world.  She with her husband and family moved to Steuben 
county, Ind., in October 1859, and settled on the farm where they 
both died.  She leaves four sons and three daughters to mourn their 
loss all of whom except one son were with her at her death.  Mother 
Shorter was a kind and affectionate mother to her children and loved
by all her neighbors and acquaintances.  She united with the 
Presbyterian church at Plymouth, Ohio, about sixty years ago, and 
has lived a consistent and conscientious christian life ever since.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. U. A. foster from the 
M. E. church at Hudson, and were largely attended.  The remains were
interred beside those of her husband in the County Line Cemetery.
Those present from a distance to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. 
L. C. Abbott, Pioneer, Ohio; D. G. Shorter and Mrs. A. A. McCoy, 
Traverse City, Mich.,  W. W. Gunsaullus, Bryan; David Gunsaullus, 
wife and three sons and wives and Mrs. Nan Garlick, Fayette, Ohio; 
Mrs. Daniel Gunsaullus, Wichita, Kan.; Daniel Howe, Shelby, Ohio;
C. F. Shorter and daughter Bess, Montpelier, Ohio.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Nancy (Gunsaullus) Shorter, 15 Dec 1813 - 11 Jul 1897, married Jacob 
Brink Shorter, 28 Sep 1811 - 21 Sep 1880.  They are buried at County 
Line Cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana.

"Cemeteries of Steuben Co., Ind., 1990" by Audree Siebel Lewis, Vol. 
II, page 1646.