OBIT: Martha Jennie (BARKLEY) BLAKE, 1930, Roaring Spring, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARTHA JENNIE BLAKE

  Mrs. Martha Jennie Blake, widow of John J. Blake, died Sunday, 5 a.m. of 
complications at the home of her step-daughter, Mrs. S. C. Kagarise, 423 Walnut 
street, Roaring Spring, after a long illness.  Mrs. Blake was a daughter of 
Joseph and Isabel Barkley, born at Woodbury, July 15, 1869 and came to Roaring 
Spring after her marriage to Mr. Blake, July 21, 1887.  She was a member of 
Christ Reformed church and of its Ladies Bible class, at Roaring Spring.
  Surviving are two sons and two daughters: J. H. and J. C. Blake, Altoona; 
Mrs. R. P. Kauffman, Roaring Spring; Miss Mary B. Blake, Detroit, Mich.; and 
the step daughter at whose home she died; three brothers: Harry Barkley, 
Williamsburg; Samuel and Simon Barkley, New York.
  Funeral service will be held at the Kagarise home Tuesday, 2 p.m., followed 
by interment in Greenlawn cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, August 4, 1930