Musselman, Samuel Moyer (1875-1938)

Christlicher Bundesbote obituary: 1938 Aug 16 p. 15

Birth date: 1875 Oct 16

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1938 Aug 3 p. 1

text of obituary:

PASTOR CALLED AWAY SUDDENLY

Rev. S. M. Musselman of Hillsboro Died Last Friday of Heart Attack.

Rev. Samuel M. Musselman, minister of the Johannestal church at Hillsboro, Kansas, died suddenly of heart attack on Friday, July 29, aged 62 years. Rev. Musselman was well known in Mennonite circles in Iowa, Ohio, and Kansas, having been in the ministry about 40 years. For many years he was a member of the General Conference Mennonite Foreign Mission board. A large funeral was held at Hillsboro, at the Johannestal church on Tuesday afternoon.

Samuel Moyer Musselman, son of Christian and Barbara Moyer Musselman, was born October 26, 1875, at Steinsburg, Pennsylvania. He has reached the age of sixty-two years, nine months and thirteen days.

He was ordained to the Mennonite ministry at the First Mennonite church, Philadelphia, December 21, 1902, and assumed the pastorate of the Wayland, Iowa, and Sicher churches in January, 1903.

In June 1903 he was married to Minerva Landis of the Philadelphia church. Their four children, Dwight of Arlington, Ohio; Vivienne of Wichita, Kansas; Frances (Mrs. Ervin Schrag) of Pretty Prairie Kansas; and George, at home, were all born in Wayland.

Preceding his ordination he served the Germantown church. In the thirty-five years of his ordained ministry he served the Iowa churches mentioned above, the First Mennonite church of Bluffton, Ohio, the church at Pretty Prairie, Kansas, the church at Wichita and the Johannestal church at Hillsboro.

He had just completed a most happy year as pastor of this church. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Bluffton College, the Foreign Mission Board of the General Conference, and the Home Mission Board of the Western District Conference.

Besides his wife and children he is survived by three sisters; Emma, of Milford Square, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Anna Hallman, also of Milford Square; and Mrs. Ellen Moyer of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. These with his many friends both in Hillsboro and elsewhere live to rejoice in his life and work.

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The Mennonite obituary: 1938 Aug 9 p. 14

Text of obituary:

SAMUEL MOYER MUSSELMAN, son of Christian and Barbara Moyer Musselman, was born October 16, 1875, at Steinsburg, Pennsylvania, and died at Hillsboro, Kansas, July 29, 1938. He had reached the age of sixty-two years, nine months and thirteen days.

He was ordained to the Mennonite ministry at the First Mennonite Church, Philadelphia, December 21, 1902, and assumed the pastorate of the Wayland, Iowa and Eicher churches in January, 1903. In June, 1903 he was married to Minerva Landis of the Philadelphia church. Their four children, Dwight, of Arlington, Ohio; Vivienne, of Wichita, Kansas; Frances (Mrs. Erwin Schrag) of Pretty Prairie, Kansas; and George, at home, were all born in Wayland.

Preceding his ordination he served the Germantown church. In the thirty-five years of his ordained ministry he served in Iowa churches mentioned above, the First Mennonite Church of Bluffton, Ohio, the church at Pretty Prairie, Kansas, the church at Wichita, and the Johannestal Church at Hillsboro. He had just completed a most happy year as pastor of this church. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Bluffton College, the Foreign Mission Board of the General Conference, and the Home Missions Board of the Western District Conference.

Besides his wife and children he is survived by three sisters; Emma, of Milford Square, Pal; Mrs. Anna Hallman, also of Milford Square, Pa.; and Mrs. Ellen Meyer of Quakertown, Pa. These with his many friends both here in Hillsboro and elsewhere live to rejoice in his life and work.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the home and the Johannestal Church and interment made at the church cemetery.