LAURENT, WILLIAMSON, BYRNE, ARMSTRONG, CRONIN, GOLDSTEIN, ROBB, WRIGHT, BRACAVA On Thursday evening, Laurie LAURENT, a daughter of Alfred LAURENT of Champion, aged one year. Interment at Robinson Run cemetery Saturday at 3 p.m. James WILLIAMSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. William WILLIAMSON, of Sturgeon, died on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 4 p.m., aged 24 years. Funeral services will be held in St. Patrick's church, Noblestown, Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. John P. BYRNE, a miner of Butte, Montana and formerly of McDonald was recently killed in the 1400-foot level of the Anaconda mine by a fall of debris which had been loosened by blasting. He was 41 years of age and went to Butte from McDonald 12 years ago. He was an uncle of Patrick, Thomas, James, William and John MULLIGAN of this place. On Wednesday evening, January 20, at the home of her son, Joseph ARMSTRONG, on the J. P. SCOTT farm in Cecil township, Mrs. Mary ARMSTRONG, aged 80 years. Survived by four sons and one daughter. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at one o'clock from the home of R. C. SCOTT, conducted by Rev. CONNOR. Interment at Hickory cemetery. Mrs. Dennis CRONIN of Waterford, Pa., died Friday morning at her home, aged about 83 years. She is survived by four sons, Michael, Daniel and Dennis of McDonald, and Will at home. Also by three daughters, Margaret and Mary of McDonald and Mrs. Annie CAVANAY of Waterford. The sons and daughters wee called to her bed side two days ago. M. J. AUSTON and John MCNERNEY leave today to attend the funeral exercises which will be from the St. Theresa church at Union City on Monday morning. Died on Saturday, Jan. 16, at Phoenix, Arizona, Louis GOLDSTEIN, father of A. S. GOLDSTEIN of McDonald, aged 65 years. Mr. GOLDSTEIN went to Phoenix about two weeks ago thinking to improve his health which had been failing for some time and on account of which he was forced to retire from business in Brownsville which has been his home for many years. He is survived by his wife, five sons and two daughters. The remains will arrive in Pittsburg on Sunday morning next and funeral services will be held at the Beth Agodal Synagogue on Washington street. Interment will be made in the Synagogue cemetery. On Friday morning at 2:15 at his home on Center avenue, George ROBB, aged 46 years. Survived by his widow, two sons and three daughters. Funeral services at the home on Saturday evening will be conducted by Rev. J. P. JORDAN. Interment at Robinson Run cemetery Sunday at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by the Knights of Pythias Lodge of which he was a member. Mr. ROBB was taken sick on Sunday morning last with a severe attack of lagrippe which developed into meningitis and other complications. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church and a highly respected member of his community. Mrs. William WRIGHT, wife of William WRIGHT of the McDonald carriage and wagon works, died Saturday, January 16, at 2:45 p.m., at her home on Fanny street, aged 53 years. Mrs. WRIGHT had been a sufferer for some months from nervous prostration and her death was not unexpected. Funeral services were held on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Alphonsus' church. The interment was made in St. Patrick's cemetery at Noblestown. Mrs. WRIGHT was born in Washington, Pa., December 25, 1855, and was married to Mr. WRIGHT May 1, 1878. Besides her husband she is survived by five daughters and three sons as follows: Mrs. E. L. FREET, a former teacher in the McDonald schools, Miss Beatrice WRIGHT, now a teacher in the Cecil township schools, Misses Valletta, Regina and Genevieve, and Leo, Sylvester and Homer WRIGHT, all of McDonald; one sister, Mrs. John WRIGHT, of Carnegie, also survives. One daughter, Columbia, who died in 1893, completes the family group, and comprises one of the oldest and most respected families in McDonald. Mrs. WRIGHT grew to womanhood on the old HAYES farm at Iffley, near Walker's Mills. Her father, Timothy BROWN, and Charles WRIGHT came to this country from County Clare, Ireland, in 1849, and both families eventually settled on the large HAYES farm which at that time comprised some seven hundred acres. The fathers helped to construct the Panhandle railroad from Pittsburg to Steubenville. Mr. and Mrs. WRIGHT attended school together at the old No. 3 Walker's school house; were neighbors and have spent life together since they were children. The husband and family are left to mourn one of the kindest of wives and mothers, faithful to every duty of family and home and beloved of all who knew her. Killed in Fayette mines Sturgeon, January 15th, Augustine BRACAVE, aged 42 years. Mr. BRACAVA was a member of Franco-Belgian lodge of Sturgeon and was buried by the lodge Sunday at Arlington cemetery. Mr. BRACAVA leaves a widow to mourn his loss. *Compiler's note: The wife's name was Mary and there was also a brother, Pierre, from a Card of Thanks published in the same paper. January 23, 1909 McDonald PA Outlook