OBIT: Martha A. (LAMBORN) HEVERLY, 1917, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB

Copyright 2009.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/
_________________________________________ 

Tyrone Topics
Mrs. Jacob Heverly.

  Mrs. Martha A. Heverly died at her home on Burley avenue at 4.50 
o'clock yesterday from paralysis.  She was the widow of the late Jacob 
Heverly and had been ill since January 29, 1916.  She was seized with 
the third and last stroke on Saturday, and since that time had been 
gradually sinking.  Deceased was born March 22, 1838, and was the 
daughter of Samuel and Sara Lamborn, pioneer residents of Clearfield 
county.  She lived for twenty years at the old homestead and was 
married in 1858 to Jacob Heverly after which they came to Tyrone.  The 
latter preceded her to the grave on December 12, 1905.  She was the 
mother of eight children, three of whom survive.  They are: Mrs. Sarah 
Ewing, Mrs. Ira T. Cook and Mrs. T. E. Snyder, all of this place.  She 
also leaves a brother, George Lamborn, of Pittsburg, and one sister, 
Mrs. Rebecca Higley, of Madera.  Mrs. Heverly was a consistent 
Christian woman and plighted her faith with the Methodist Episcopal 
church at an early age.  Funeral Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. 
George M. Glenn in charge.  Interment in Grand View cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday morning, March 8, 1917