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     Michael L. Brosius was born on 4 July 1842, Jordan Township, Northumberland County, PA.¹ He married Catharine Bush.¹ Michael L. Brosius died in 1925, Jordan Township, Northumberland County, PA.¹ He died on 31 October 1925, at age 83.^2,1 He was buried at Grand View Cemetery, Pillow, Dauphin County, PA.²

     Samuel Gordon Brosius was born on 28 August 1878, Jordan Township, Northumberland County, PA.^2,1 He was the son of Michael L. Brosius and Catharine Bush. Samuel Gordon Brosius married Mollie Jane Ochenrider on 2 January 1902, Uniontown, Dauphin County, PA.^3,1 Samuel Gordon Brosius died on 7 January 1967, Northumberland County Home and Hospital, Coal Township, Northumberland County, PA, at age 88.^4,1
Newspaper obituary:
S. G. Brosius, Jordan Native
S. Gordon Brosius, 88, of Herndon R.D., died Saturday evening at 10:30 o o'clock in Northumberland County Hospital, Trevorton Road. He had been a patient there for seven months and had been in failing health the past year.
A native of Jordan Township, he was born August 28, 1878, a son of the late Michael and Kate Bush Brosius. He was a retired line foreman for the Mahatenanand Mahantango Telephone Company of Herndon and had 55 years of service when he retired.
He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Mollie Jean Ochenrider, in 1959. He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Urban.
Survivors include six sons and three daughters, Raymond, Millersburg; Robert, Ohio; Albert, Williamsport; Herman, Harrisburg; Naldy, Herndon R.D; Lawrence, Harrisburg; Mabel, wife of Charles Miller' and Daisy Brosius, both of Snydertown and Mae Brosius, Harrisburg; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one brother, Landis, Klingerstown and a sister, Mrs. Francis Deppen, Shamokin R.D.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'- clock from the Rothermel funeral home, Herndon. Rev. Paul Billow, his pastor, will officiate. Interment will be made in St. Paul's Church Cemetery, Urban. Friends will be received by the family at the Rothermel funeral home Tuesday evening.
The Daily Item, January 9, 1967, Page 6.²
He was buried at Saint Paul's United Church of Christ Cemetery, Urban, Northumberland County, PA.⁵

     Mollie Jane Ochenrider is also referred to as Mary J. Oxenrider in some sources.³ She was born on 24 July 1879, Leck Kill, Northumberland County, PA.^1,2 She married Samuel Gordon Brosius, son of Michael L. Brosius and Catharine Bush, on 2 January 1902, Uniontown, Dauphin County, PA.^3,2 Mollie Jane Ochenrider died on 23 May 1959, Jackson Township, Northumberland County, PA, at age 79.^4,2 She was buried at Saint Paul's United Church of Christ Cemetery, Urban, Northumberland County, PA.¹