Note: The Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be shut down on April 6, 2023. (More info)
RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [PA-SW-OBITS] WEAVER, AYRES March 9, 1901 McDonald PA Outlook
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. WEAVER, AYRES In Cecil, on the 4th, Mrs. Fred. WEAVER, in her 46th year. Deceased was a daughter of Samuel HENRY. She leaves a husband and four children. Frank AYRES, son of Isaac AYRES, was killed in Nickelplate mine by a fall of slate on Wednesday. He was working with his father and brother at the time the slate fell. He was 15 years old and had been helping in the mine only about a week. The funeral services were held this Friday afternoon at the U. P. church. Coroner FITZPATRICK made and investigation, and a verdict was rendered after the facts. Frank was well known all over the town, and the accident was a very sad one, and was one of those incidental to work in the mines, where the most experienced man gets caught sometime. The coal had been undermined, and his father and brother were preparing a post to hold up the roof when a slab of slate fell on the boy. The pupils of Room 9 of the public school and their teacher Mr. COCHRAN attended the funeral services in a body. Frank had formerly been a pupil in this room

    06/29/2003 03:01:28