Here we are at the end of another month in 2025. It is difficult to believe how quickly the time will run in a few months.
It's the same with every day. They jump out of bed in the morning, attack the day, and then the sun starts, 12 to 15 hours away quickly.
Time ever waits for no one. The tick, checkered, tick the watch never stops. Even the entire life of a life is reduced to just a few thousand days.
As someone who spends a lot of time in a cemetery, I understand the quick lifespan – no matter how long it ends. I could preach here, but I won't.
It is enough to say that all people die and then there is a recordings, an obituary for them. Today we visit such an obituary at the end of the life of Reuben Shover, born on September 29, 1832, and died on October 23, 1900.
Reuben Shover Cassing – October 23, 1900 – the sudden end of a life of exceptional usefulness and performance.
The community was startled this morning when he found out the death of Mr. Reuben Shover, one of our most famous, best known and most respected citizens. He had been seen on the streets by many on Saturday morning, and although he complained, he left his friends who thought it was a temporary unrest. On Saturday afternoon he was confiscated with violent cramps as a result of the catarrh of the bile duct and his suffering became intense and took to the end.
His doctors, Dr. Strickler and Benj. Frantz did everything in medicine, but the illness, which was so much coupled with the heart of the long -term difficulties, was submitted too deep for human control, and death, which with an infallible hand in the municipality of infallion, reflected this shining brand in the community and created an emptiness that is most difficult to fill in its devoted family.

Reuben Shever, a leading businessman who worked in community organizations and in the Waynesboro Board of Education and Town Council, died unexpectedly on October 23, 1900.

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Mr. Shever was easily one of our most active and prominent citizens. It was mostly identified with all of our leading companies and was a tower of strength in the councils of the many directors that he was connected to. He was striking in the promotion of many of our leading companies and was always seen as the leader in all causes that he gave his name.
A man with the most conscientious sense of honor and incorruptible integrity was always his help and influence of invaluable value in the business concerns of the community. He was a modest man and did not look for his own promotion; The law of the outstanding value came to him.
He had no enemies and was uniformly polite and pleasant for everyone. Such a man is an invaluable loss for a community, and people may mourn with those who have robbed a devoted husband and father.
Reuben Shover was a son of the late Jacob and Nancy (Harbaugh) Shover and was born on September 29, 1832 near Fountain Dale in Adams County. He was raised on the farm and attended public schools. From 1866 to 1875 he was employed on the Western Maryland Railroad.
In 1871 he built a warehouse near Stift-Mar and was the company's first agent in this place. It was largely involved in the development of this famous resort in the later 1970s. In 1875 Mr. Shover moved from his farm on the Blue Ridge Summit to Pen-Mar and became a citizen of Waynesboro in 1881, where he continues to live.
In 1882 he supervised the construction of the Geiser Branch Railroad and then became the company shipping. He was director of the company for several years. He was later identified with the Amer. Mfg. Co. and was a Yard Superintendent for a few years, also a director.
In February 1892, when he was bought by DB Martin & Son Hardware Establishments, the East Main Street, he started with John H. Gehr and continued until 1898 when he was sold out to his partner and retired from active business, devoted himself to active industries, which in local industry, in the local industry, in the local industry, in the local industry. In the region and in registration, in different societies, etc., etc.
At the time of his death, he was the oldest in the Reformed Church in Trinity; Treasurer of the Waynesboro Lodge 219 IOOF, a position that he held eighteen years in a row; Trustee and former grand master of the same lodge; Former chief patriarch of the Witwenfreund camp; Member KGE; Treasurer of Waynesboro Water Co.; President of the decarbonal Lime Co.; Director of Landis Tool Co.; Director of American MfG. Co.; Member of the Waynesboro Board of Education after being elected to this office in February. He served several term as a member of the city council. He was a democrat in politics, and the fact that his station is strongly republican confirms his popularity and stands as a man.
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He is survived by his wife and two sons, William C. Shover, Engineman on CVRR, in Chambersburg, and Ira Shover, also a railway engineer in West Chester. A brother and two sisters survive: Washington near Gettysburg; Miss Christian Lantz, Eyler's Valley, Md., And Ms. Matilda Harbaugh, Lincoln, Kas.
The funeral will take place on Friday afternoon at two o'clock with services in the house, which is carried out by the Pastor Rev. FF Bahner. Funeral in Green Hill.
The strange fellows and KGE lodges will be present in a body. The various boards with which he was connected will also take part in a body.
“Once our time” was written by Rev. Lee E. Daywalt, administrator for the preservation of our Heritage Archives & Museum, 11191 South Mountain Road, Fayetteville. It is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. For more information, please contact Archivesmuseum@Hotmail. com or 717-762-2367.
This article originally appeared on Waynesboro Record Herald: Reuben Shover, Waynesboro, suddenly died in 1900