OBIT: Amanda C. COLEMAN, 1890, Juniata, Blair County, PA

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Local Brevities.

  Mrs. Luther Coleman died at twenty minutes past 12 this morning, aged 
39 years, of blood poisoning at her husband's residence in Juniata.  
She had been ill about two weeks.  The funeral will take place at 10 
o'clock on Saturday morning.  Besides her husband she leaves one child.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, November 20, 1890

In Memory of Mrs. Luther Coleman.

  EDS. TRIBUNE:  At 10 o'clock on Saturday, November 22, followed by a 
large concourse of people from almost every part of the country, all 
that was mortal of Mrs. Luther Coleman was conveyed from her late home 
in Juniata to the Antis burying ground, and there, with the sad and 
solemn rites of a Christian custom, were consigned to the silent tomb, 
the wind meanwhile singing a mournful requiem through the branches of 
stately oaks adjacent to the silent city of the dead.  Decease, whose 
maiden name was Amanda Catherine Cox, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Nancy 
Cox, was born in Antis township, October 14, 1851.  In 1876 she was 
united in marriage to Mr. L. C. Coleman, to which union two daughters 
were born, one dying years ago, and Nellie, aged five years, together 
with the husband, survive her.  Deceased also leaves to mourn her sad 
death, besides her aged parents, five brothers and two sisters - S. D. 
Cox, of Charleston, W.Va.; J. B. Cox, of Allegheny, Pa.; Asbury, Frank 
and Martin, of this county.  The sisters are Mrs. Allen McCartney, jr., 
of Juniata, and Mrs. D. D. Coleman, of Logan township.  The subject of 
this notice had been for years a patient sufferer and for several days 
prior to her death suffered the most intense agony, it being so 
excruciating for some hours before the message of her death came that 
many left the room.  Yet amidst all she announced the text to be 
preached on her burial day, "I have fought a good fight, I have 
finished my course, I have kept the faith," etc., and named the two 
hymns to be sung - "Asleep in Jesus" and "A Home in Heaven."  In a few 
minutes, with arms extended upwards and the words "Little Annie" and "I 
am going home," on her lips, she quietly and peacefully passed away.  
Some of the noble trains of character that this woman was possessed of 
may be culled from the very able and eminently fitting sermons preached 
by Revs. Wilt and Williams, the former of the German Baptist church of 
Altoona, of which she was a most worthy and consistent member, and the 
latter of the Lutheran church of Juniata.  She was never known to utter 
an unkind word about any living person - a grand and beautiful tribute.
  Her good and beautiful mind was never inclined to ostentation or 
show.  She was one who derived comfort and enjoyment from sources 
affording to others pain and anguish and though for years an almost 
constant sufferer, endured all without a murmur.  It is over the grave 
of such that the future bends and drops its tear of affection and on 
their monuments hang its brightest laurels of remembrance.

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

1880 Logan Township, Blair County census -
Luther Coleman, 27  
Amanda C. Coleman, 27  
Anna E. Coleman, 3  
James B Coleman, 20