Alice M. Eisenhart, GW #16 

Alice was born in January of 1871 to Simon A. and Wilhelmina (Vanluvanee) Eisenhart of Erwinna, Bucks County, Pa.  Simon was a shoemaker by trade and was a veteran of the American Civil War.  He suffered an injury to his right leg which had to be amputated.  By 1900, Alice had joined the Gospel Workers and was serving in Philipsburg, Center County, Pa. with Sadie Bredbenner.  By 1910 Alice had moved to Cleveland, Ohio to join the other Gospel Workers there.  Alice left the Gospel Workers to care for family members.  Her sister Lucy Ann Zeeb of Philadelphia, Pa, a young widow with small children, was severely ill.  Lucy died in 1913 when her children were almost teenagers.  In 1915 Alice is living in Frenchtown, Hunterdon County, NJ with her brother Earl and his family and Alice’s widowed mother.  By 1920, Alice and her widowed mother made a home of their own.  Alice was working as a shipping clerk at a porcelain factory in Frenchtown, NJ.  Alice’s mother died the following year which freed her up to go back into home missionary work.  Alice joined Annie Spellman and others in the ministry in Detroit, Michigan.  In 1940 Alice is in Brooklyn, New York, with three other women as missionary workers at a home mission.  Alice died in 1958 and is buried in Frenchtown, NJ with her parents and two brothers that died as children.