OBIT: Sarah (BLACKBURN) KIRK, 1918, East St. Clair Township, Bedford County, PA

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  Mrs. Sarah Blackburn Kirk, widow of the late William Kirk of East St. Clair 
township, died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Charley Mowery, near 
Fishertown on Friday evening the 22 of Feb., of infirmities incident to old 
age, having recently passed her eighty-sixth birthday.
  Mrs. Kirk was the daughter of Joseph Blackburn, a once prominent resident of 
St. Clair township, and practically all of her long life was spent in the 
vicinity of her birth place.
  In about 1851, she was married to William Kirk formerly of York Co., a 
teacher by profession and a potter by trade and who died at his home near 
Fishertown in 1891.
  She was the mother of five children namely, Ellen intermarried with Charles 
W. Wolf, Annie, intermarried with James A. Allen, Margaret, intermarried with 
Gideon M. Mock, Harry C., intermarried with Florence Snowberger and Alex C., 
intermarried with Maria J. Moore; only two of these, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Mock 
survive their mother.
  Of her father's family, the sole survivor now is her sister, Mrs. Thomas G. 
Miller of Pleasantville.
  Mrs. Kirk came from a highly respected family and had many excellent traits 
in her character to transmit to her children and her children's children to 
the fourth generation. She was a devoted wife and mother, an excellent 
neighbor and a consistent member of the Methodist church.
  Her funeral services on Sunday afternoon, in the Lutheran church, were 
largely attended. These were conducted by Rev. Engler of the M. E. church of 
Schellsburg, and her remains were laid to rest by the graveside of her husband 
in the old Hoover graveyard; six of her grandsons bearing her body to its 
final rest.

Bedford Gazette, 1 March 1918

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