Photograph- Real photo post card. Mabel May Hess, sister of Walter L. Hess. Written at bottom of front of post card is "Died March 21 Burried 24 1919". Obituary of Mabel May Hess is glued to front of post card. "Death of Miss Mabel M. Hess. The death of Miss Mabel M. Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob W. Hess of Bickart's Mill, Manor Township, occurred on Friday at her home, the cause being uraemic poisoning. Miss Hess was in her twenty-first year and a member of the Evangelical Sunda-school at Millersville. She was a pupil at the Normal School, from which she would have graduated in June. The parents and a brother, Walter L., with the 304th Engineers in France, survive."
Photograph- Real photo post card. Mabel May Hess, sister of Walter L. Hess. Written at bottom of front of post card is "Died March 21 Burried 24 1919". Obituary of Mabel May Hess is glued to front of post card. "Death of Miss Mabel M. Hess. The death of Miss Mabel M. Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob W. Hess of Bickart's Mill, Manor Township, occurred on Friday at her home, the cause being uraemic poisoning. Miss Hess was in her twenty-first year and a member of the Evangelical Sunda-school at Millersville. She was a pupil at the Normal School, from which she would have graduated in June. The parents and a brother, Walter L., with the 304th Engineers in France, survive."
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Real photo post card. Mabel May Hess, sister of Walter L. Hess. Written at bottom of front of post card is "Died March 21 Burried 24 1919". Obituary of Mabel May Hess is glued to front of post card. "Death of Miss Mabel M. Hess. The death of Miss Mabel M. Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob W. Hess of Bickart's Mill, Manor Township, occurred on Friday at her home, the cause being uraemic poisoning. Miss Hess was in her twenty-first year and a member of the Evangelical Sunda-school at Millersville. She was a pupil at the Normal School, from which she would have graduated in June. The parents and a brother, Walter L., with the 304th Engineers in France, survive."
Letter carriers, Lancaster Post Office. Identified are, first row, left to right: Benjamin F. Zook, Benjamin Eichholtz, Ed R. Troyer, William Brenneman, John Tomilson, Leister Long. Second row, left to right: Frank Hoffman, Abram Erisman, Casper Kirchner, Jacob C. Hess, George Kuntz, Henry Hardy. Back row: George W. Pinkerton and Harry H. Marshall.