OBIT: Elizabeth Jane (SMITH) CALDERWOOD, 1890, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  After a long, lingering and painful illness, calmly and heroically 
endured, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane, widow of A. P. Calderwood, M.D., died at 
her home on Allegheny street yesterday afternoon at 4.45 o'clock.  Born 
in the vicinity of Asbury Chapel, Antis township, January 26, 1828, her 
parents being Jacob and Ann Smith, old-time residents of that section, 
she was married to Dr. A. P. Calderwood in March, 1857, who has 
preceded her to the other shore, having departed this life August 18, 
1887.  She was aged, at the time of her death, 62 years and 10 months, 
and leaves to mourn their loss one son and one daughter - Judson J., of 
the Pennsylvania railroad freight department at this station, and 
Adella, who made her home with her mother.  Besides these she leaves 
two brothers - John A. Smith, of Altoona, and Alfred A. Smith, of this 
place.  One singular coincidence in the death of many members of this 
family is that the same occurred on the 18th day of the month except 
this one, a grandfather, husband and son having died on this date.  She 
had been a consistent member of the Methodist church since she arrived 
at her 10th year, in which faith she died with a full hope of 
immortality.  She was a wife and mother, and when we speak thus we mean 
it in the broadest acceptation of the term.  Kind and indulgent, 
frequently sacrificing her pleasures for the benefit of those near and 
dear to her, a Christian woman without fault or blemish, amidst her 
circle her absence will be sadly missed.  Funeral services will be held 
in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Logan and Allegheny streets, 
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, to be conducted by Rev. George Leidy and 
others.  Interment in Tyrone cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, November 27, 1890