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    1. [PA-SW-OBITS] MICHEAUX, MCCLAVE, BENN, OWENS Nov. 8, 1907 McDonald PA Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. MICHEAUX, MCCLAVE, BENN, OWENS While temporarily insane from illness, Mrs. Louis MICHEAUX, 47 years old, committed suicide by hanging herself at her home on Liberty street, Monday morning. Before attempting suicide, Mrs. MICHEAUX seized her little daughter Leona, aged ten years, and tried to fasten a rope around her neck. The child broke away and ran from the house to notify relatives. When the relatives arrived they found Mrs. MICHEAUX dead. The deceased had been a resident of McDonald the past twenty-one years. She was a native of Belgium. Her husband, Louis MICHEAUX, and three children survive her. The latter are: Frank and Louis of Belgian Hill and Leona at home. Frank CATRAIN of Centre avenue is a brother of the deceased. The funeral services were held at the family residence, conducted by Rev. W. D. IRONS, D. D., on Wednesday afternoon. Interment was made in Robinson's Run cemetery. Wm. MCCLAVE, a well known oil man of Cross Creek met instant death on Saturday by falling about 40 feet from a derrick on which he had been working. No person witnessed the accident, but his bruised and bleeding body was found a short time afterward by two men who were in the engine house. MCCLAVE, who was perhaps 30 years of age, had been employed in the Cross Creek oil field for some months by the Venture Oil Company, and Saturday afternoon shortly after 2 o'clock was working on a derrick on the Samuel MAGILL farm, a short distance east of Cross Creek. It is not known exactly how the accident occurred which resulted in his instant death, but it is supposed that he lost his balance in some manner. A broken board was all that was found which would tell the tale, and it is supposed that this had been broken by the fall. Died last week, Mrs. BENN of this place. Interment took place the latter part of the week. *Imperial column Mrs. OWENS of Gallipolis, Ohio, died recently. Mrs. OWENS was a sister of R. H. BURNS of Homstead farm, above town. *Imperial column

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