OBIT: Margaret (BARR) HARPER, 1904, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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PEACEFUL PASSING AWAY.
A Devoted and Useful Life Quietly Ended at Ripe Old Age.

"My life flows on, calm as the golden days
In autumn when the leaves begin to fall -
A shadow falls, - not so, - a shade of light.
Death's angel cats, across my pathway glides,
Heaven calls; I see the angels beckon me!
In the dim distance - not so very far."

  At fifteen minutes after 10 o'clock last evening, Mrs. Margaret 
Harper died at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. 
A. Atlee, 1321 Logan Avenue.  She suffered from pleuro pneumonia and 
had been ill about one week.  She was aged 81 years, 11 months and 7 
days.  The funeral will be held at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. Services at 
the home where she died by Rev. George T. Gunter.  Interment at Tyrone 
cemetery.
  The maiden name of the deceased was Margaret Barr.  She was born in 
Mifflin county on June 15, 1822.  On the 13th of April, 1845, she was 
married to John M. Harper at Belltown in Mifflin county.  With their 
family, Mr. and Mrs. Harper located in Tyrone a few years before the 
Civil war.  Mr. Harper died here suddenly on the 19th of July 1887.  He 
had been an active businessman of the community and was an elder of the 
First Presbyterian church.  To them were born nine children, five 
daughters and four sons.  Their eldest son, Samuel, was killed in front 
of Petersburg in the Civil war.  Surviving are one son and three 
daughters, viz: Miss Lila M. Harper and Mrs. J. A. Atlee, of Tyrone; 
and Mrs. T. J. Cutler of Windber.  One brother survives, Samuel W. 
Barr, of Tyrone.  Six brothers and three sisters preceded her to the 
grave, one of whom was Rev. J. C. Barr, who died in Tyrone about 5 
years ago. . . .

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., May 24, 1904 

NOTE:  The marriage date here differs from the church records, so 
assume whoever gave the information (brother or one of her children, or 
the newspaper) made a mistake.  Also, The first 7 children born to 
Samuel and Sibella were most likely born in Huntingdon county, they 
moved to Mifflin county about 1833 (this according to Thomas Lorenzo's 
biography, written when he was alive), but they were all raised in 
Mifflin and that is where most of the 'children of the offspring' of 
Samuel and Sibella would have assumed that their parents were also 
born.

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