OBIT: Margaret CLARK, 1889, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG.

  Mrs. Margaret Clark, one of the oldest and best known residents of this 
place, died at her home on Blair street on Friday evening at 8 o'clock.  She 
and her children and grandchildren had celebrated her 82nd birthday but a few 
months ago, and although an octogenarian, she was born in Hollidaysburg, 
which at that time comprised but a few straggling houses.  Her health had not 
been good for more than a year, but the serious illness which resulted in her 
death had not been of more than two or three weeks duration.  Her family 
comprised three sons and two daughters.  Her youngest son, Thaddeus, was 
killed in a railroad accident on the Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad.  Her 
oldest daughter, Susan Jane, the wife of Mr. Albert Reeder, resides in 
Kansas, and a son, Samuel Clark, is a citizen of Sandusky, Ohio.  Her other 
son, Mr. John Clark, is a citizen of Altoona, and her youngest daughter, Miss 
Willimina, made her home with her mother.  Mrs. Elizabeth Bowers, widow of 
the late George Bowers, is a sister of the deceased.  Mrs. Clark was a quiet, 
unpretentious and industrious woman and succeeded in rearing and providing 
for her family (she having been left a widow early in life,) under numerous 
trials and perplexities all of which she bore with patience and true 
Christian fortitude.  Her trials in many cases were severe, and perhaps none 
were harder to be borne than that of her "soldier boy," Thaddeus, on whom she 
fondly doted.  She was highly respected and esteemed in the community.  The 
funeral took place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from her late residence, 
conducted by Rev. Dr. D. H. Barron and the remains tenderly laid to rest in 
the Lutheran cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, February 28, 1889