OBIT: Maggie (GERHARTY) FARRELL, 1890, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  In yesterday's "Topics," we congratulated ourselves upon the 
healthful condition of this section, there being no deaths recorded for 
the month of December.  We are sorry to be compelled to break this 
record in the announcement which we have to make.  Yesterday morning at 
the hour of 10.15, after a lingering illness of catarrhal fever, Mrs. 
Maggie, wife of John Farrell, jr., died at their home on North Main 
street.  Miss Maggie Gerharty was born in county Galway, Ireland, March 
7, 1849, her parents having come to this country when she was but 6 
months of age, settling in Madison, Indiana, and afterward Danville, 
and removing to Bellefonte, Pa.  On the 14th day of January, 1874, she 
was united in marriage to John Farrell, jr., at her home in Danville, 
Pa., Father (now Bishop) McGovern, of the diocese of Harrisburg, 
performing the ceremony, and at her death she numbered 41 years, 9 
months and 22 days.  Beside the sorrowing husband she leaves to mourn 
their great loss seven daughters, the eldest about 16 years, and the 
youngest some 5 years of age - Mary, Annie, Maggie, Katie, Agnes, Alice 
and Ella, and one brother, James Gerharty, of Houtzdale, and three half 
sisters - Mrs. Cyril Schell, of this place, and Misses Annie and Biddie 
McLaughlin, of Bellefonte.  The husband, who has thus been suddenly 
bereft of his helpmate and greatest support, has been a leading and 
prominent locomotive engineer for many years upon the Tyrone division 
of the Pennsylvania railroad.  A man well and favorably known in this 
community, and we know of a fact that all greatly sympathize with him 
in this, his great affliction.  Mrs. Farrell was a devoted and 
consistent member of St. Matthew's Catholic church.  The funeral 
service will be announced in to-morrow's edition.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, December 30, 1890

TYRONE TOPICS.

  The funeral of the late Mrs. John Farrell will take place this 
morning at 9 o'clock.  The remains will be taken from her late home on 
North Main street at that hour and conveyed to St. Matthews' chapel, on 
Cameron street, where requiem mass will be said, conducted by Rev. 
Father Kittell, after which interment in the Catholic cemetery on Oak 
avenue.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, December 31, 1890