OBIT: Emma C. (SMITH) HOOVER, 1899, of interest in Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF MRS. JAMES J. HOOVER.

  The many friends of Mr. James J. Hoover in Hollidaysburg and 
Williamsburg will be sorry to learn of the death of his wife, which sad 
event occurred at Massilon, O., on Tuesday, October 3.  The maiden name 
of his wife was Emma C. Smith, and she was born near Massilon in 1861.  
She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and prominent in 
religious work.  She had been a sufferer from brain trouble and death 
is supposed to have been due to a rupture of a blood vessel.  Her 
husband and three children survive.  Mr. Hoover is a native of 
Williamsburg and learned his trade as a printer in the office of the 
Hollidaysburg Register.  Later he and his father located in the state 
of Ohio and for many years published the Massilon American.

Morning Tribune, Tuesday, October 10, 1899