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    1. HICE, SALMON, PHILLIPS, GOETCHIUS Mar. 14, 1903 McDonald PA Outlook
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. HICE, SALMON, PHILLIPS, GOETCHIUS George HICE, Jr., aged 8 years died suddenly Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at his parents' home in Sturgeon. The boy complained of feeling ill Monday night and went to bed at 10 o'clock. Tuesday morning he arose at 7:30, but complained of sharp pains in his head. He went back to bed and Dr. MILLER, of this place summoned. When he reached the house at 9 o'clock, the lad was dead. Mrs. Kate SALMON, aged 30 years, wife of Peter SALMON, of Sturgeon, died at the Passavant hospital, Pittsburg, on Wednesday. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. LHEUREUX at the Noblestown U. P. church this Friday afternoon. Mrs. SALMON had only been in this country but a few weeks. She was taken to the Passavant hospital to be operated on for peritonitis and never rallied after the operation. David M. PHILLIPS died at his home in Canonsburg on Tuesday night of this week. Deceased was the last and youngest of ten brothers, all of whom lived to great old age. The oldest of the brothers was Samuel PHILLIPS, father of Fulton PHILLIPS of the Outlook. The grandfather of these brothers came to the Ricky Hill homestead three miles northeast of Canonsburg about 1760 from Virginia, where the family had come from Wales. This family of brothers was of an adventurous pioneer disposition and nearly all of them in early days migrated to the farther West, and their descendants are scattered all over that vast section. John C. GOETCHIUS, aged 64 years died at his residence Monday evening at 9:15 o'clock of heart trouble. He was born at Waverly, N. Y., and when quite a young man went to Titusville where he engaged in the photograph business and later became wealthy in the oil business but later lost all his money in the oil exchange in 1883. He came to McDonald during the oil excitement of 1891 and engaged in the oil industry, being employed by the Forest Oil Company. He leaves a wife, two daughters, B. LaVerne and Elizabeth M., and a son, John C. He was a member of the Episcopal church and also of the Masonic lodge. Rev. W. D. IRONS conducted funeral services at his late residence on Wednesday evening, and the remains were taken to Titusville on Thursday for interment. J. B. SMITH and O. L. CLARK accompanied the remains to Titusville.

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