Maria Elizabeth Kunkel ^{2 3 4}

   FamilySearch ID: KFK9-6FC.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Cause of Death: accidental death falling down stairs, 13 Sep 1875, Hellam Twp., York, PA. ⁵

2. Newspaper: Harrisburg Telegraph: Death of Mother and Son, 16 Sep 1875, Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA. ⁵ DEATHOF MOTHER AND SON. -- The York Telegram says: On Monday last Mrs. Gottlieb Druck, of Hellam township, this county, fell down a flight of stairs, injuring herself to such an extent as to die a few minutes afterward. She was about seventy-five years of age. About the same time of day her son Henry expired from the effects of a paralytic stroke received last Thursday. He was about fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and three children. One of the latter is suject to epileptic fits, and has to be continually confined to her room. The funerals took place this morning at ten o'clock.

3. Obituary: York Daily: obituary of Mrs. Gotleib Druck on 16 Sep 1875 in York, York, PA. ⁶ REMARKABLE FATALITY. -- Mrs. Gotleib Druck, of Hellam township, aged 88 years, and her son Mr. Henry Druck, aged 57 years, residing only about three-fourths of a mile apart, died the same day, Monday last, under the following sad circumstances:
On Friday night of last week Mr. Druck received a paralytic stroke, after an illness of a day or two, from the effects of which he died on Monday, having been perfectly unconscious from the time he was paralyzed.
During the evening of the same day Mrs. Druck, mother of the deceased, in attempting to pass down a stairway at her residence, fell and broke her neck, causing almost instant death. She just had learned of the death of her son.
Both funerals took place yesterday. First the friends and relatives met at the late residence of Mr. Druck from where his remains were taken to a family burying ground close by, and interred, after which all proceeded to the residence of the deceased lady, assembled in the barn, where the corpse was brought, the crowd being too large to get into the house, and a regular funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Seachrist, after which the remains of the deceased mother were interred on a family burying ground near her late residence.
Mr. Druck leaves a wife and three children, one of whom is subject to epileptic fits and is continually confined to her room.

Maria married Gottlieb Druck on 18 Apr 1809 in York: Trinity Reformed Church, York, PA.¹ (Gottlieb Druck was born on 24 May 1787 in Hellam Twp., York, PA,⁷ died on 12 Nov 1863 in Hellam Twp., York, PA ⁴ and was buried on 14 Nov 1863 in Hellam Township: Druck Burial Ground, York, PA ⁴.)