Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: HASTINGS, Mary, 04 May 1896 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Little, , Feb 2011 Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ from The Pittsburgh Press dated Tuesday, May 5, 1896 (page 11): Mrs Mary HASTINGS died yesterday morning. She was the mother of John HASTINGS. The funeral was held today from the residence of her son-in-law, D E MARTIN, Adams street, Allegheny. from the Allegheny City Death Records: Mary HASTINGS, aged 70 years, widow, died May 4, 1896, influenza pneumonia; born in PA; lived at 7 Adams Street; burial in Highwood Cemetery on May 5, 1896. NOTES: Possible that age is incorrect - David E MARTIN's mother-in-law, Mary HASTINGS, is noted in census listings as born in the mid-1810s.