OBIT: Mary HOUSEMAN, 1889, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF MRS. MARY HOUSEMAN.

  Mrs. Mary Houseman, widow of Jacob Houseman, died Thursday morning 
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Francis Rooney, Fifth avenue, 
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.  Deceased was a member of the 
Second Lutheran church.  She leaves eleven children to mourn the loss 
of a kind and affectionate mother.  These are Daniel and Andrew 
Houseman, Mrs. Francis Rooney, Mrs. D. Burns, Mrs. C. Robinson, Mrs. H. 
Goss, Mrs. Thomas Pardoe, Mrs. Nannie Piaget, Mrs. Jane Dysart, Mrs. 
Catharine McCurdy and Miss Irene Houseman.  There is one son missing. 
He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, and none of his family 
have heard anything of him up to this date. They have no knowledge 
whether he fell in battle, or anything that would confirm his death. 
Mrs. Houseman was 76 years old.

Altoona Tribune, February 7, 1889