OBIT: Hannah H. (ROOT) BAPST, 1913, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Mrs. Hannah H. Baptst. Hannah H., wife of John W. Bapst, of 2906 Sighth [sic] avenue, Altoona, died at the Altoona hospital Sunday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock of tubercular peritonitis. Mrs. Bapst was born in this county 47 years ago, was of Methodist faith. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Minnie McCartney, of Juniata; two brothers, William, of Duquesne, and Harry Root of Tipton, Pa.; one half-brother, Benjamin Root, of Birmingham, and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Haley, of Duncansville, and Mrs. Lizzie Haller, of Altoona. Private services were held from the residence on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Gordon A. Williams officiated and private interment was made in the Oak Ridge cemetery. Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, December 4, 1913