Mrs. Mary A. Davis Mrs. Mary A. Davis, one of the oldest residents of Johnstown, passed away at 11:30 o’clock Sunday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Williams of 520 Coleman Avenue that city. Her death was due to the general decline of old age, she being in her 89th year, having been born April 20, 1816. The deceased was a daughter of Evan and Sarah Davis Griffith and was born in Cardiganshire, Wales, coming to this country in 1840 with her parents, who located first near Philadelphia, thence removing to Indiana county and after a short residence there to Cambria county, in Carroll, afterward Barr township. In 1846 she was married to John D. Davis, also a native of Cardiganshire, who emigrated from Wales with his parents in 1844 and later also became a resident of Carroll township. To this union were born the following children: Evan of Clarion county; Mary Jane, married to W. W. Duncan, who died in Utah in 1891; Sarah, widow of the late Evan Williams of Indiana county; Jonathan, who died in 1897 in Colorado; David and Daniel, employees of the Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown; Thomas of Colorado and William, the Ebensburg attorney. Mrs. Davis was an estimable woman and was a lifelong adherent of the Baptist faith, her husband having been for a number of years a deacon in the Bethesda Welsh Baptist congregation. The funeral took place Wednesday forenoon in this place, interment being made in Lloyd’s cemetery. The exercises at the grave were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Teasdale, pastor of the Baptist church. Found Infant’s Body While hunting rabbits on the Joseph Blough farm near Geistown about 8 o’clock Tuesday morning, Stephen Weaver came upon the dead body of an infant lying naked on a stone pile. He communicated at once with Justice J. M. McVicker and David Stull of Geistown who after they had verified the report, notified Coroner E. L. Miller of Johnstown. The body was found huddled up upon a pile of stones as though it had been thrown there by some one in a hurry to get rid of it and proved to be that of a fully developed male child in a very good state of preservation. The absence of human tracks about the place where the remains were discovered would show that the latter was left there before the snow fall last Saturday evening. Richard C. Edelbute Richard C. Edelbute, proprietor of the Gallitzin Bottling Works and one of the prominent young business men of Gallitzin, died at the Central Hotel in that place Tuesday morning, aged thirty years. Mr. Edelbute had not been well for several months but was able to be about until a week ago when he took to his bed. Richard Cloves Edelbute was born in Brookville, Jefferson County, being a son of Nathan G. and Rosetta Edelbute who are now residents of Punxsutawney. Besides his parents he is survived by three brothers and two sisters: Harry at Punxsutawney; Frank of Coalport; Owen of Reynoldsville; Mrs. E. E. Pearsall of Brookville and Mrs. Richard Clover of Punxsutawney. R. C. Edelbute was a member Johnstown Lodge No. 175 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Cambria Country Retail Liquor Dealers Association, the Royal Arcanum and the Improved Order of Heptsophos (sic), Punxsutawney and the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Altoona. _________________________________________________________________ Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008