OBIT: Elizabeth HALPIN, 1895, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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MISS ELIZABETH HALPIN

Died at the home of Miss Kate McFadden in Hollidaysburg at 2:30 o'clock 
yesterday afternoon.  Miss Halpin was a daughter of Bernard and Mary 
Halpin and was born in County Cavan, Ireland about sixty years ago.  
She came to this country when 14 years of age, and with the exception 
of four years spent in Kittanning, Armstrong county, the remainder of 
her life was passed in Hollidaysburg.  She lived out at service and 
being exceedingly economical had saved considerable money, which is 
principally invested in property in this city and Hollidaysburg.  
Lately she had been living alone in Gaysport.  The fact that she was 
known to be a person of means excited the cupidity of local thieves and 
one night about three weeks ago an attempt was made to break into her 
house.  The shock occasioned by the fright completely prostrated her 
and this was the immediate cause of her death.  A sister, Mrs. Marcella 
McLaughlin, lives in Ireland.  Miss Mary McLaughlin of Pittsburg, a 
niece, and Bernard McLaughlin of Newark, N.J., are the only surviving 
relatives in America.  Miss Halpin was a devout member of St. Mary's 
Catholic church of Hollidaysburg where a requiem mass will be read over 
her remains tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock; interment in St. Mary's 
cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., April 26, 1895