OBIT: Lydia HYSON, 1881, Frankstown Township, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.
SHE WAITED FOR THE EVENING SHADOW.

  On Sunday evening there died at the home of Henry Kemberling, in 
Frankstown township, an old lady named Lydia Hyson, aged 83 years.  On 
Monday she was laid beside her husband, John Hyson, or "Yankee John," 
as he was called, who lived for many years in the old lock house at the 
head of the crooked dam, and died in 1853.  Mrs. Hyson was a small 
woman, and at the time of her death would not have weighed over fifty 
pounds, but a kinder or better woman than old Lydia Hyson never lived.  
She had no known relative on earth, and after the death of her husband 
was alone in the world.  Samuel Kemberling in his life time gave her a 
home and cared for her.  After his death she was supported by the 
county.  She long waited the evening shadow and her spirit is at last 
in heaven, which only appears the more brighter and glorious by 
contrast with the suffering and privation of this cold, sinful and 
selfish world which she so long and patiently endured.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, June 2, 1881

1880 Frankstown Township, Blair County census -
Henry Kemberling, 38 
Catharine Kemberling, 40 
Jessie Kemberling, 13 
Lydia Hyston, 81, mother-in-law, b. NJ