OBIT: Sarah (AKE) ICKES, 1888, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF MRS. HENRY ICKES.

  Mrs. Sarah Ickes, wife of Henry Ickes, residing at No. 1123 Ninth 
avenue, died a 9 o'clock Friday morning at the residence of her 
husband, aged 69 years, 6 months and 24 days.  For more than a year 
past she had been ailing from a complication of diseases, but during 
which time she was able to be about and attend to her household duties. 
About one week ago she was compelled to take her bed, and since that 
time gradually grew worse and died at the hour above stated.
  Mrs. Ickes was born a St. Clairsville, Bedford county, on January 13, 
1819, and was the daughter of John I. Ake, deceased, of that place.  In 
the year 1865 she took up her residence in this city and since that 
time lived in the brick homestead near Mackey's planning mill.  She had 
many friends here who will be pained to learn of her death.  She was a 
consistent member of the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and 
her life was a Christian one, she dying in the full faith of a blessed 
Redeemer.  One son, David, survives her.

Altoona Tribune, August 30, 1888