Individual Details
Thomas H. Carbaugh
(8 Mar 1891 - 20 Oct 1987)
Man outlives insurance policy 02/07/87
Posted 17 jul 2008 by TimeLineTraveler
by Arron Singleton
Public Opinion staff writter
MERCERSBURG-Thomas H. Carbaugh faithfully paid $136.30 a year for life insurance to provide for his family when he died.
his insurance agency is instead going to pay the 95-year-old for outliving the term of the 52 year policy he started paying on when he was 44.
Clifford Meyers Jr., Carbaugh's insurance agent and part owner of Meyers Insurance Agency, said Carbaugh is one of only a few Franklin Countians to outlive a life insurance policy.
Carbaugh, who will be 96 next month, will get $5000. He said he will save the money. He bought the life insurance policy Ja. 28,1935, from Emory Meyers, Clifford's grandfather.
"I wanted to protect mt family because I thought I'd never live long enough to pay for this farm," said Carbaugh, father of four children. his wife and daughter have died and his sons still live in the Mercersburg area.
Hard work and honest living are the secrets of a long life, according to Carbaugh. He said he never smoked, drank acohol or partied as a young man. He always treated people fairly and he worked almost everyday since childhood.
"There wasn't nobody in the world that worked harder than I did," he said.
He likes to sit in his favorite chair near the front window of his 7366 Charlestown Rd. farm house and watch the neighbors to farm work. He recently sold some of the 194 acres of his farm and 50 acres of timberland he bought for $8000 in the 1930's.
He stoped driving and became semi-retired from farming at age 80.
Life has been simple for Carbaugh. He said he has never traveled farther than Hagerstown, MD., only listens to the radio for entertainment, cannot read or write, and has no telephone or television.
"Except for this leg, I have no pains," said Carbaugh, referring to two toes he lost because of an injury when he was 82. "They wanted to remove it from the knee, but I told them I'd lug it around. A friends wife first had her toe removed, then her foot, then leg, then she died. I'm still around and they aren't getting it.
Posted 17 jul 2008 by TimeLineTraveler
by Arron Singleton
Public Opinion staff writter
MERCERSBURG-Thomas H. Carbaugh faithfully paid $136.30 a year for life insurance to provide for his family when he died.
his insurance agency is instead going to pay the 95-year-old for outliving the term of the 52 year policy he started paying on when he was 44.
Clifford Meyers Jr., Carbaugh's insurance agent and part owner of Meyers Insurance Agency, said Carbaugh is one of only a few Franklin Countians to outlive a life insurance policy.
Carbaugh, who will be 96 next month, will get $5000. He said he will save the money. He bought the life insurance policy Ja. 28,1935, from Emory Meyers, Clifford's grandfather.
"I wanted to protect mt family because I thought I'd never live long enough to pay for this farm," said Carbaugh, father of four children. his wife and daughter have died and his sons still live in the Mercersburg area.
Hard work and honest living are the secrets of a long life, according to Carbaugh. He said he never smoked, drank acohol or partied as a young man. He always treated people fairly and he worked almost everyday since childhood.
"There wasn't nobody in the world that worked harder than I did," he said.
He likes to sit in his favorite chair near the front window of his 7366 Charlestown Rd. farm house and watch the neighbors to farm work. He recently sold some of the 194 acres of his farm and 50 acres of timberland he bought for $8000 in the 1930's.
He stoped driving and became semi-retired from farming at age 80.
Life has been simple for Carbaugh. He said he has never traveled farther than Hagerstown, MD., only listens to the radio for entertainment, cannot read or write, and has no telephone or television.
"Except for this leg, I have no pains," said Carbaugh, referring to two toes he lost because of an injury when he was 82. "They wanted to remove it from the knee, but I told them I'd lug it around. A friends wife first had her toe removed, then her foot, then leg, then she died. I'm still around and they aren't getting it.
Events
| Birth | 8 Mar 1891 | Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States |  | ||
| Residence | 1900 | Ed 74 Thompson Township, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States | | ||
| Death | 20 Oct 1987 | at his home 7366 Charlestown Road,, Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States |  | ||
| Burial | 23 Oct 1987 | Pine Grove Cemetery, Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Nellie M. Crider (1898 - 1982) |
| Child | J. Merle Carbaugh (1916 - 1997) |
| Child | Thomas Reid Carbaugh (1919 - 2002) |
| Child | Pauline Carbaugh (1922 - 1965) |
| Child | Alvin Linn Carbaugh (1927 - 2005) |
| Child | Roy E. Carbaugh (1935 - ) |
| Father | John Michael Carbaugh (1862 - 1928) |
| Mother | Mary M. Truax (1870 - 1951) |
| Sibling | John Elwood Stigers Carbaugh (1889 - 1926) |
| Sibling | William W. Carbaugh (1893 - 1952) |
| Sibling | Mary Rosetta Carbaugh (1897 - 1922) |
| Sibling | Nancy Lucy Gertrude Carbaugh (1899 - 1978) |
Notes
Death
THOMAS H CARBAUGH,96 of 7366 Charlestown Rd, died late Tuesday evening, Oct. 20, in his home.Born March 8, 1891, in Fulton County, he was the son of the late John M. and Mary Martha (Truax) Carbaugh.His wife, Nellie M. (Crider Carbaugh, died in 1982. He had been a farmer all his life.Surviving are four sons, J.Merle Carbaugh, Reed E. Carbaugh, Linn Carbaugh, all of Mercersburg, Roy Carbaugh, at home; ten grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren and one great-great grandson.Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Lininger Funeral Hime, Mercersburg, with the Revs. Sterling C Keeney and Sarah E. Clayton officiating.Burial will be in the Pine Grove Cementery, Mercersburg.The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home.Endnotes
1. , Thomas H Carbaugh in household of John M Carbaugh, "United States Census, 1900" (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
2. , Thomas H Carbaugh in household of John M Carbaugh, "United States Census, 1900" (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).