OBIT: Sarah E. (HARDY) BECKWITH, 1950, Bald Eagle, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ MRS. SARAH E. BECKWITH DIES IN STATE HOSPITAL Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Beckwith, Bald Eagle, died at 5:25 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Philipsburg State hospital. She was born February 27, 1886, at Mountain Orchard, the daughter of Samuel and Ida Mae Woomer Hardy. On August 23, 1905, at Tyrone, she married Cimious A. Beckwith who is deceased. She is survived by six sons and two daughters: Elmer Beckwith, Mt. Union, Clarence Beckwith, Dix; Earl Beckwith, Greenwood; George Beckwith, Bald Eagle; Mrs. John Smith, Bellefonte; Mrs. Dean Updyke, Bald Eagle; three sisters: Mrs. Wilbur James, Miss Stella Hardy, Tyrone; Mrs. Fannie Howard, Bald Eagle; a brother, Walter Hardy, Decker Hollow and 11 grandchildren. She was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church of Bald Eagle. Funeral services will be held in the First Evangelical United Brethren church on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of the Reverend Daniel Patterson. Burial will be in the Bald Eagle cemetery. Friends will be received at the Glass Funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 5, 1950