Dr. Peter D. Neff and Sarah C. Motz

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Husband Dr. Peter D. Neff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1817 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Apr 1880 - Centre Hall, Centre Co, PA 3 4
         Buried:  - Centre Hall Cemetery, Centre Hall, Centre Co, PA

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         Father: Maj. John Neff (1791-1870) 5
         Mother: Catharine Durst (1794-1868) 5

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       Marriage: 18 Feb 1851 1

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Wife Sarah C. Motz ^{6 7}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Apr 1887 3
         Buried:  - Centre Hall Cemetery, Centre Hall, Centre Co, PA

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         Father: John Motz, Jr. (1792-1849/1852) 4 8 9
         Mother: Elizabeth Fisher (1800-1882/1882) 4 8 9

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Children

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1 F Flora C. Neff ¹

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            AKA: Flora O. Neff 3
           Born: 2 Feb 1855 - Aaronsburg, Haines Twp, Centre Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1898
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Sidney W. Bairfoot (1854-1888) 10

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Peter D. Neff

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Centre Hall, Centre Co, PA - a physician

His father being a farmer, he passed his early life on a farm, but he was always a great student, and his daughter often heard him speak of his studying at nights and working hard to secure his education. He was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. In politics he was a Democrat, but not active or obtrusive in the work of the party.
In 1858 he left Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania, and located in Centre Hall, where he soon built up an excellent practice and accumulated a handsome property. He continued the prosecution of his profession up to his death, which occurred at the bedside of a patient in Potter township.

The following is an account of the remarkable circumstances surrounding his death: On Wednesday morning, 7th, the doctor left his home to visit Mrs. Bumgardner, in confinement, about a mile below Centre Hill. Before leaving our town he seemed, in his usual health, and in the morning assisted the carpenters in the repairs of a portico at his house. Finding Mrs. Bumgardner in a critical condition, he remained with her till the afternoon, and partook of a hearty dinner. The condition of the lady being very serious he, late in the afternoon, sent for the assistance of Dr. Jacobs. At about four o'clock, while at the bedside of his patient, he suddenly sank back into a chair, and expired almost without another breath, supposed from heart-disease caused by excitement induced from the condition of the lady he was attending. Dr. Jacobs arrived about five minutes after, and a sorrowful scene presented itself-the attending physician stricken with almost instant death upon a chair at the bedside of a dying mother, with her dead babe, all in the same chamber-a scene of sadness and sorrow that our pen fails to picture; and, to add to it all, Mrs. Willow, mother of the patient, thrown into convulsions by the fearful visitation, and the young mother in a frenzy of agony, render the whole sadder than ink can portray. A sister of the patient was likewise completely prostrated in the sick-room by the heart-rending scene, the mother of Mr. Bumgardner remaining in the chamber of woe, not entirely unnerved. There was scarce any other assistance at immediate command until Dr. Jacobs arrived, and to find upon the chair the corpse of the one who had sent for him to help save the life of another. When the news was brought to town in the evening, it came like a thunder-clap from a cloudless sky, driving Mrs. Neff and daughter almost frantic with grief, as may well be imagined. Mrs. Bumgardner died in great agony about five o'clock the following morning, in spite of all the efforts of Drs. Jacobs and Vanvalzah to save her. [HCC 1883, 409]

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 409.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 439, 479.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 479.

4 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 307.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 297, 439.

6 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 307, 409.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 352, 479.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 352.

9 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1249.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 478.