"Mrs. Frances Emily VanCleve, 75, widow of Samuel O. VanCleve and a lifelong resident of Greene County, died suddenly of a heart attack Monday morning, April 12, 1948, at 6:20 o'clock at the home of her sister, Mrs. John H. Harkins, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where she had been visiting. She was ill only a few hours.

Born at Fordyce in Greene Township, July 26, 1872, she was a daughter of the late George and Sarah Jones Elms, and spent all her life in the Fordyce and Waynesburg communities. She was a member of St. George's Mission of the Episcopal Church, Waynesburg, and was well known. Her husband, Samuel O. VanCleve, well known machine shop operator, died April 28, 1941. Surviving are three sons, Samuel H. VanCleve, of Philadelphia; Richard E. and J. Edward VanCleve, both of Waynesburg; eight grandchildren, one great-grandchild; one brother, William A. Elms, of Waynesburg; two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Elms, of Waynesburg, and Mrs. John H. Harkins, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, with whom she was visiting when she died. There are also a number of nieces and nephews."