Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: SHEAFFER, Ruth Ann, 13 Feb 1897 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Little, , Aug 2011 Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ from The Pittsburgh Press dated Saturday, February 13 1897 (page 6): SHEAFFER - On Saturday, February 13, 1897, at 1:30 am, Mrs Ruth Ann, widow of the late John SHEAFFER, of Wilkins township, Allegheny county, Pa., in her 87th year. Funeral services will be held at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Samuel DAHLEN, No. 183 Shetland avenue, East End, Pittsburg, on Monday, February 15, 1897, at 2 o'clock pm. Interment in Beulah cemetery. from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records: Ruth Ann SHEAFFER, aged 87 years, widowed, died February 13, 1897, paralysis of the heart, born in Wilkinsburg, lived at 183 Shetland Avenue, burial in Beulah Cemetery on February 15 1897. >From census, children included William, Margaret, Mary, John, Harrison, Jerome, Jane, Lenora, and Harriet. Headstone at Beulah Presbyterian Church Cemetery notes dates as born December 13 1811 and died February 11 1897.