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OBITUARIES
1851 - 1879
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1876
Transcript of the Obituary
for MRS. COLONEL MATTHEW LINN from The Reporter newspaper, Washington
Co., Pa., Sept. 13, 1876, page unknown:
"LINN - Mrs. Colonel Matthew Linn died at her residence in North
Strabane township on the 7th instant at an advanced age."
Transcript of the Obituary
for Margaret Jane WARRELL from The Reporter newspaper, Washington
Co., Pa., Dec. 28, 1876, page unknown:
WARRELL - On Tuesday morning, Dec. 19th, in East Finley township, of
Neuralgia of the heart, Margaret Jane, wife of William Warrell, in her
40th year.
Transcript of the Obituary
for Margaret Jane WARRELL from The Reporter newspaper, Washington
Co., Pa., Dec. 28, 1876, page unknown:
WRIGHT - On Tuesday, Nov. 7, is [sic=in] Buffalo township, Rachel,
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Wright, aged 24 years.
Transcript of the Obituary for Margaret Jane WARRELL from The Reporter newspaper, Washington
Co., Pa., Dec. 28, 1876, page unknown:
HOLMES - On Monday, Dec. 18, Mary Bell, daughter of William and
Lizzie B. Holmes, aged 1 year, 7 months and 16 days.
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1877
Transcripts of Obituaries from The
Reporter newspaper, Washington Co., Pa., June 13, 1877, page unknown:
[All obits on this date]
"DEATHS - [these are also very hard to read]
"NOBLE - In Claysville, on the 10th instant, Mrs. Walter Noble,
aged __ years.
BRADEN - At his residence at ten Mile, Pa., James F. Braden, Monday
morning, June 11, aged [43 or 48] years.
BAKER - On Saturday, June 9th, a son of daniel Baker, of Amwell
township, of scarlet fever, aged 4 years."
WILSON - On Thursday, May 24th, 1877, in Fallowfield township, of
consumption, Annie G. Wilson, in the 17th year of her age.
HALLAM - At the residence of her parents in this borough, on the [2d ?]
instant, Miss Lizzie Hallam, aged [1 ? - one?] years.
PATTERSON - On June 3d, in Cross Creek, Mrs. Martha, wife of Wm.
Patterson.
WALKER - At the residence of her son in Brooke county, W. Va., Mrs.
Sarah, wife of Alexander Walker of Jefferson township, Washington
county, Pa."
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1878
No date- possibly 1878 or close ??
Mrs. Alonzo Linn is mentioned in the Obit (as cousin) to Rev. Henry
F. Means...
Article from The Observer newspaper, Washington Co., Pa., Feb. 15,
1878, page unknown:
"DEATHS - In Canonsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1878 of
paralysis Mrs. Linn at an advanced age."
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Article from The Observer newspaper,
Washington Co., Pa., June 7, 1878, page unknown:
[article's beginning was cut off...] "...was buried March 24th,
1874. Another body, that of J. H. Curry, which had been buried about
three years, was also petrified. The features of neither had changed,
especially Jamison's, whose [veins ?] showed prominently. The color of
the body was as natural as the day he was put in the ground. He was a
man that weighed 200 pounds and it took six men to remove the body from
the grave. His wife and twelve other bodies removed were all decomposed.
The remains of all were re-interred in the cemetery at Rice's Landing. -
[caps] Stutman [caps]."
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Article from the The Reporter newspaper,
Washington Co., Pa., Oct. 18, 1879, page unknown:
"Shot in __ Theatre - Baltimore, October 15? - John M. Nelson,
the medical student, shot last night at the Front Street Theatre, died
shortly after 3 o'clock this morning. He was [23 ?] years old, son of a
farmer in Queen Anne county. Nelson, after attending college yesterday,
went last night with a brother-in-law to witness the performance at the
theatre. They were seated in the front row of seats in the orchestra
circle, and at the close of the performance as the curtain fell upon the
tableaux?, there was a discharge of musketry. Young Nelson was gazing
silently upon the scene, and simultaneously with the report of the guns,
he clasped his hand to his forehead, exclaiming, "I am shot,"
and sank down unconscious. A large sized minnie ball had crushed through
his skull, entering the forehead just above the right eye. |
| FOUR OBITS
Article from The Daily Evening Reporter, Washington Co., Pa., Oct.
21, 1878, page unknown:
"DEATHS -
"SLY - Mr. Addison Sly, on Saturday morning, Oct. 19th, in the
18th year of his age.
"DONAHEY - Near Taylorstown, on the 18th of October, Mrs. Sarah
Donahey, in her 77th year.
"McClelland - John K. McClelland died at his residence near
Eldersville, Pa. Oct. 16th, aged 53 years.
"FRAZIER - In Canonsburg, on the 19th inst. Miss Eliza Frazier,
aged about 49 years." |
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