OBIT: John Holmes WILKINS, 1895, of interest in Allegheny County, PA

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JOHN HOLMES WILKINS

  The funeral of John Holmes Wilkins, who died at the West Penn 
Hospital yesterday, took place from Fullerton's undertaking 
establishment on Ninth Street at 10 a.m.  Rev. Dr. H. D. Lindsey of the 
North Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, officiated and the interment was 
in Allegheny Cemetery.
  The deceased was the son of Hugh Brady Wilkins and Sophie Elizabeth 
Denny.  His mother is a daughter of Dr. William Denny, and a 
granddaughter of Ebenezer Denny.  Mr. Wilkins was in the employ of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona.  He was suffering with a 
disease of the spine.
  In August last he was brought to the West Penn Hospital for treatment 
but no improvement was noticeable. He was well-known in this city and 
was a member of the Eighteenth Regiment, N.G.P.  The deceased was in 
his 40th year.  He is survived by his wife and aged parents.
  He was a descendant of the late Judge Wilkins, after whom Wilkinsburg 
is named.

Pittsburg Sun Telegraph, Pittsburg, Pa., December 2, 1895