This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6015 Message Board Post: Sudden Death in Hume The residents of the village of Hume were shocked on learning last Saturday morning that Mrs. Anna M. STEWART, wife of Dr. Chas. STEWART, had passed away at midnight. Mrs. STEWART was a frail woman and had for years suffered from heart trouble but her energy and love for activity kept her about her duties and even her closest friends could not realize how slight was her hold on life. She appeared to be as well as usual on Friday with the exception that she complained of neuralgia pains in her face. After retiring for the night these pains grew more severe and settled down into her neck and chest. Soothing remedies were administered and the pain alleviated for the time, but about eleven o'clock her suffering in the region of the heart became intense and at twenty minutes before twelve she breathed her last. Dr. Charles and Dr. Edith STEWART were both with her and Dr. SLOAN of Buffalo who was a guest at the house was also in attendance, but medical skill could not avail when the grim messenger of death called. A message was telephoned to Miss Nina Stewart, who was in Buffalo, and she reached home Saturday forenoon. The funeral services were held at the home on Tuesday at 11 a.m., Rev. W. D. ALLEN of Ellicotville who was pastor of the M.E. Church in Belfast when Mrs. Stewart resided there, officiated. The services consisted in the reading of selections from the bible and excellent remarks befitting the occasion. Some favorite verses from Tennyson which had been treasured by Mrs. STEWART were read. All through the service Mrs. Jennie HARDING presided at the piano and played very softly the Cradle Song by Heller and Klein's Consolation. The services were very impressive and the large attendance was evidence of the sympathy of the community which has sustained a great loss. The ladies of the Eastern Star of which Dr. Edith and Miss Nina STEWART are members, attended in a body. The floral offerings were very beautiful and arranged with exquisite taste. The burial was at Belfast by the side of the son who died about ten years ago. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]