OBIT: Elizabeth BIGHAM, 1915, Formerly of Greenmount, Adams County, PA

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MRS. H. P. BIGHAM

Mrs. H. P. Bigham died at her home in Altoona Saturday evening about 9:00 
o'clock after a brief illness.  She was about 78 years old.  Until last Spring, 
Mrs. Bigham was a resident of Greenmount, having lived there more than 40 years.  
She was Miss Elizabeth McCright before her marriage and was born in Greenville, 
Mercer county, later moving here.  For several years she resided with an uncle, 
William Douglas, of Gettysburg, but after her marriage moved to Greenmount, 
where her husband conducted a store.  During her life in this county Mrs. Bigham 
made many friends and was active in social and religious life of the 
neighborhood for year.  She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church.  
During the last summer Mr. and Mrs. Bigham celebrated their 50th wedding 
anniversary.  She leaves her husband, H. Paxton Bigham, and three daughters, 
Mrs. S. T. Knox, Altoona; Mrs. Mary Shearer, Hickory, North Carolina, and Miss 
Jennie Bigham, living at home.  Two sisters also survive, one of them living in 
California and Mrs. Margaret McCright, of Greenville, Pa.  The funeral was held 
from the home of her nephew, J. Paxton Bigham, Carlisle street, Wednesday 
morning at 10:30 o'clock.  Brief services were conducted by Rev. D. W. Woods, of 
Fairfield.  Interment in Marsh creek cemetery.

Star and Sentinel, March 20, 1915