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    1. [PACAMBRI] Obits Nov. 20, 1908
    2. Patty Millich
    3. Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, November 20, 1908 Volume 42, Number 45 Teacher Learns of Her Brother’s Tragic Death M. J. Walsh, one of the mining engineers killed Monday afternoon in the accident at Ellsworth, Pa., was a brother of Miss Hannah Walsh, one of the public school teachers of Westmont. Miss Walsh was at Ebensburg attending the county institute when she received the news of her brother’s death. She was almost prostrated, but recovered sufficiently to leave for her home in Phillipsburg, where the remains of her brother are to be taken for interment. Aged Man Dead Elias Foy, aged almost 100 years, is dead at the Cambria County Poor farm. Foy died Thursday. Ever since 1885 Elias Foy has been one of the inmates at the almshouse. He was admitted 23 years ago and has been there since. He came from Indiana county into Cambria and while he may have one or two relatives in that county, he himself did not remember their names. Foy did not know how old he was. He knew that he was almost 100 but could not tell his exact age. Pittsburger Dies at Summer Home George M. Dilworth, a member of one of the oldest families of Pittsburg, died Wednesday morning at his summer home. Mr. Dilworth was about 48 years old and had been in ill health for sometime. He had been spending his summers at Ebensburg for many years and usually stopped at the Ebensburg Inn. There he met Miss Carrie Hayes also a member of a well known Pittsburg family whom he married about [blurred: six or ten] years ago. Since their marriage they rented and occupied the Coffee mansion, which was vacated by the Coffee family after the death of Mr. Coffee. The remains were prepared by an undertaker from Pittsburg and were shipped to Mr. Dilworth’s former home in his private car Thursday. Altoona Man Killed Altoona, Pa., Nov. 19 Charles E. McFarland, age thirty, Altoona mail carrier, who was shot in the leg by the accidental discharge of C. E. Henderson’s gun while hunting near Huntingdon, died from loss of blood.

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