OBIT: George Allison BURNS, 1939, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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GEORGE ALLISON BURNS

  George Allison Burns, a retired farmer, died yesterday afternoon at 
2:30 o'clock at the home of a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 
John O. Hoffman, 6 West Twelfth street, Tyrone, after an illness of two 
weeks.
  Born August 21, 1866, in Centre county, he was a son of Abraham and 
Lucy (McMonigal) Burns. He married Alice C. Woodle January 2, 1884, at 
Mount Pleasant. She died December 10, 1907.
  Members of the family include ** children, Mrs. L. R. Barto, of 
Pennsylvania Furnace, T. A. Burns, Huntington, W.Va.; E. R. Burns, 
Barree; R. L. Burns, Bellwood; Mrs. S. R. Stine, Vail; H. E. Burns, 
Akron, O.; C. F. Burns, Gatesburg; Mrs. John O. Hoffman, Tyrone; A. C. 
Burns, Centre Line, and Violet and Edith, Wilmington, Del., 47 
grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, two brothers, S. M. Burns of 
Bellwood and E. E. of Blue Ball, and one sister, Mrs. Bertha Dodd, 
Sandy Ridge.
  Mr. Burns was a member of the Tyrone United Brethren church, of the 
Men's Bible class of the Sunday school and of Allegheny Gateway lodge 
No. 187, I.O.O.F.
  Friends are being received at the Hoffman home after 7 o'clock this 
evening.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, October 7, 1939, p. 10, col. 1