OBIT: Mary (GONSMAN / GANSMAN) BILLETDOUX / BILLEDAUX / BILLITDEAUX, 1899, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAMSBURG WAIFS.

  Mrs. William Billedaux, whose home is south of town on the ridge, 
died of typhoid fever on Monday at noon.  There is much more sadness 
than usual in connection with the death of this good woman.  About two 
years ago, she buried her husband, a short time following she laid to 
rest a daughter, and now the surviving children are called to perform 
the same sad rite to a devoted mother.  Mrs. Billedaux was a sister to 
Mr. Gansman and was born at Sarah Furnace, 52 years ago.  She was the 
mother of eight children, six of them left to mourn her demise.  
Funeral to-day, interment in the Catholic cemetery here.  Within the 
last year, this good woman nursed five of her children through the 
sickness of which she herself died.

Morning Tribune, Wednesday, November 29, 1899

1860 Greenfield Township, Blair County census:

Barth Gonsman, 45  
Cath Gonsman, 43  
Jacob Gonsman, 20  
Eve Gonsman, 17  
Frederic Gonsman, 12  
Adam Gonsman, 9  
Mary Gonsman, 8  
Louisa Gonsman, 7  
Margt Gonsman, 3