RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [PAWASHIN] CHRISTIAN, MCGILL, JONES, GLENN, HEATH, KESS, SHAW, BALLIET, WENDT, CORNELIA, DUMM, TILTON, DAVIS, PATTERSON, PARIS, LYKE Dec. 14, 1917 McDonald PA Record
    2. Victoria Hospodar Valentine
    3. CHRISTIAN, MCGILL, JONES, GLENN, HEATH, KESS, SHAW, BALLIET, WENDT, CORNELIA, DUMM, TILTON, DAVIS, PATTERSON, PARIS, LYKE When about to start the engine at the Johns well in the South Side at midnight Sunday night, Albert GILLESPIE noticed a coat sleeve in the snow, and on investigation found the frozen body of a colored man between twenty-five and thirty years old. The body was taken to the HUMPHRIES mortuary and was identified as a Peyton CHRISTIAN of Jumbo. It is believed the man had been dead about twenty-four hours, as a depression in the ice showed where the heat of his head had melted the snow. Residents of the South Side reported having seen the man about the oil well at eight o'clock Saturday night. He leaves an aged mother at Jumbo. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. COCHRAN and Mr. and Mrs. Adam COCHRAN attended the funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Anna MCGILL, at Munhall on Wednesday night. Robert M. JONES, age 62, a former clerk of courts of Westmoreland county, died in Scottdale. J. G. GLENN, aged 55, a retired merchant of Butler, committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver. Mrs. Elizabeth HEATH, age 46, of McKeesport, died of burns received when she fell while carrying a lighted lamp in her home. Alice KESS, aged 33, of Coraopolis, died from injuries received at the Lewis Foundry Company plant, Groveton, when he (sic) was struck by a casting. John A. SHAW, aged 65, committed suicide in the Connellsville cemetery by swallowing poison. His body was found by men working in the cemetery. Howard BALLIET, aged 18, son of Elton BALLIET, was accidentally shot and killed by a companion, Charles MORGAN, near Sharon, while hunting rabbits. Frank Alfred WENDT, the Altoona youth who murdered Constable Michael MIGINLEY, in October 1915, was electrocuted at the Rockview penitentiary. William CORNELIA, aged 25, member of the Three Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, Camp Lee, Va., died at the West Penn hospital, Pittsburgh, from pneumonia contracted in camp. Sergeant Major Samuel M. DUMM, 80 years old, died at his home at Parnassus from the infirmities of old age. For many years he was a teacher in the public schools of Armstrong and Westmoreland counties. Mrs. Clark R. TILTON, aged 42 years, died at her home at Candor on Monday, ____ 10, 1917, at 8 p.m. of diphtheria. Mrs. TILTON's maiden name was ____. She was the daughter of ___ Esther TORRENCE, and was ... Harshaville, Beaver county. Early in life she united with the Han___ Presbyterian church, but ... moved to Washington she became associated with the Third U. P. church there. Later she united with ... Christian church and then Robinson U. P. church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. She was active in church ... the last three years and ...tendent of the Juniors of ... church. ... is survived by her husband Clark R. TILTON, and two daugh... ... Mae and Mary Esther, at ... brothers and two sisters ... ..ounty also survive: Aaron ... of Murdocksville, John G. ... of Harshaville, William F. ... of Rochester, James S. TOR... of Hookstown, Mrs. Nancy BEALL ... Jennie TORRENCE of Rochester. Funeral services were held Thursday ... in the Robinson church, in ... the Rev. E. A. COLE of Washington assisted by the Rev. G. M. KERR, ... Candor, and the Rev. P. E. ____ of Robinson. The quarantine ... members of the family from ... the funeral. Mrs. E. L. DAVIS, aged about 74 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert BROWNING in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday, December 9, 1917. She was born in New York Sate. Mr. and Mrs. DAVIS and two children, ___d and Grace, came to McDonald about twenty-five years ago, just after the oil excitement, Mr. DAVIS being a pumper. Shortly afterwards Fred died, at the age of twenty. Mr. DAVIS was employed in the South Penn oil fields her for over twenty years. About eighteen years ago Mr. and Mrs. DAVIS moved from the Vermillion property in Fanny street extension to a small farm about eight miles from Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. DAVIS was of the Free Methodist faith and was a devout Christian. Of a gentle and kind disposition, she was beloved by all who knew her. Her husband and her daughter, Mrs. Robert BROWNING, both of Cleveland, survive. Robert M. PATTERSON died Friday morning, December 7, 1917, at one o'clock, at his home in Cecil township. Mr. PATTERSON had been afflicted with heart trouble for a number of years, and recently suffered an attack of grip, which, owing to weak heart action, proved fatal. Mr. PATTERSON was 55 years of age. He was twice married, his second wife being a Miss WEAVER of Cecil township, to whom he was married less than a year ago. Besides his wife Mr. PATTERSON is also survived by four sisters: Mrs. C. L. REED of Houston; the Misses Anna and Ella PATTERSON and Mrs. James C. CULLEN, also of Houston. Mr. PATTERSON lived in Houston for about a year, at the end of which he moved to the James WHITE farm, about a mile and a half from Venice. He was a splendid man, true and faithful in all the relations of life. He was a ruling elder in the Venice United Presbyterian Church. Funeral services took place at the morning preaching services last Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Leonard PARIS, aged 42 years, died at the Woodville Insane Asylum on Monday, December 10, 1917, at 5:30 a. m. Mr. PARIS was born in France. He was an inmate of the asylum for the past three years. His wife and son John survive. Funeral services were held at the late home on Champion Hill on Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock. Interment was in Robinson's Run Cemetery. Frank, little son of Mr. and Mrs. William LYKE, died on Monday, December 10, 1917, of pneumonia. He was two and a half years old. Besides his parents he is survived by several brothers and sisters. Funeral services were conducted at the home on Wednesday afternoon by the Rev. Earl D. MILLER. Interment was in Center cemetery. *Midway column

    10/21/2007 03:11:09