OBIT: Katharine PETERSEN, 1891, Bloomfield Township, Bedford County, PA

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ROARING SPRING RIPPLES.

  Mrs. Katharine Petersen died on February 13, 1891, at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. James Johnson, aged 83 years, 10 months and 10 days.  
She was born in Christiansland, Sweden, and came to this country about 
twenty years ago.  She became a member of the Swedish Lutheran church 
at the age of 14 years.  She was a Christian and loved her Bible.  For 
years she was almost shut out from the world on account of her 
deafness, and not having any knowledge of the English language.  Her 
funeral occurred on Sunday afternoon, when a large concourse of people 
assembled in the Lutheran church to pay the last tribute of respect to 
the aged lady.  Rev. M. M. Foose preached an able and instructive 
funeral sermon from Psalm XC: 10.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, February 17, 1891

1880 Bloomfield Township, Bedford County census -
James Johnston, 44  
Johanna Johnston, 49  
David Johnston, 14  
Charles Carrier, 17, stepson 
Catharine Peterson, 74, mother-in-law