OBIT: Rebecca (AIKEN) HAWKSWORTH, 1891, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. WILLIAM HAWKSWORTH.

  At half past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Rebecca Hawksworth, 
beloved wife of William Hawksworth, died at the family residence, No. 
919 Sixth avenue of a complication of diseases.  For the past eight 
years she had been an almost constant sufferer and four years ago 
accompanied by her sister she went to the University hospital in 
Philadelphia for treatment, from which she received some benefit.  Her 
sufferings, which were thus allayed were by no means over, yet she bore 
them with Christian patience and her favorite hymn during her last 
illness was "Jesus Will Give Me Rest."  Beside her husband she leaves 
two children - Mary, aged 16 years, and Charles, aged 12.  Her mother, 
Mrs. Mary Aiken also survives her as do two sisters and two brothers - 
Mrs. Martha Miller, Miss Lucy Aiken, William and D. W. Aiken.  Deceased 
was a consistent member of the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal 
church, attending whenever her health permitted.  The funeral will take 
place at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.  Interment in Fairview 
cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, March 27, 1891