OBIT: Eliza J. HOFF, 1880, Logan Township, Blair County, PA

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Death of a Venerable Lady.

  Mrs. Eliza J. Hoff, residing on the Dry Gap road, in Logan township, 
died yesterday morning, lacking but a few days of being 78 years old.  
Mrs. Hoff was born August 14, 1802, within the present limits of the 
city of Altoona, on the east side of the railroad, and nearly opposite 
where the gas works now stand.  Then this valley was a perfect howling 
wilderness, roamed over by the Indians, and more than once had the 
settlers to flee to places of safety, taking with them their children 
and stock.  Mrs. Hoff had resided in this neighborhood nearly all her 
life, and was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 
more than half a century.  She has been a widow for thirty-seven years; 
has three sisters all living, all older than the deceased, one of whom 
is nearly 90 years old.  Six children survive her.  She has been 
gradually passing away for the past six months, her illness being 
occasioned partly by dropsy.  Like the good woman that she was, she 
approached her end with no misgivings as to the future.  Full of hope 
and triumphant joy, the grace which supported her in her long 
pilgrimage did not fail her in the hour of dissolution; she departed in 
peace.  Her church relation was with the First M. E. church, and the 
funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Hamlin, at 3 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon at her late residence.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, July 29, 1880

Died.

HUFF - In Logan township, Dry Gap road, Eliza J. Huff, widow of Dr. 
Frederick C. Huff, aged about 78 years.
  Interment from her late residence on Dry Gap road, Friday afternoon 
at 3 o'clock.  The friends are respectfully invited without further 
notice.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, July 29, 1880

1880 Logan Township, Blair County census -
Eliza Jane Hoff, 78 
Susan Hoff, 44