OBIT: Edward Bell ISETT, 1916, Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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NONAGENARIAN PROMINENT IN COUNTY DEAD
Edward Bell Isett, Widely Known Business Man, Is Called Away
RESIDENT OF BELLWOOD RECENTLY

  One of the oldest and some years ago one of the most prominent of 
Blair county's citizens died suddenly on Saturday, when Edward Bell 
Isett passed quietly out of life at the Arlington hotel at Tyrone.  Mr. 
Isett had been in failing health for some time and had kept rather 
closely to his home on Main street, Bellwood.  On Saturday he wished to 
go to Tyrone, thinking that the change might prove beneficial.  He made 
the trip with his wife in the afternoon and in the evening grew rapidly 
weaker and died in his room at the hotel.  His body was carried back to 
his home in Bellwood Sunday morning to await the funeral.
  Edward Bell Isett was born July 24, 1826, being aged at death 90 
years, 3 months and 26 days.  He was a son of John S. and Mary Ann Bell 
Isett and saw the light of day first at Arch Spring.  He was one of a 
family of ten, five brothers and one sister preceding him to the grave, 
and three sisters surviving - Mrs. Annie Sargent, of Canada; Mrs. Mary 
Gardner and Mrs. Lucetta Thompson, of Altoona.
  On March 25, 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth 
Dysart, who died September 21, 1901, at the age of 75.  To this union 
nine children were born, five of whom survive: John Bell Isett and 
Sidney Thompson Isett, of Spruce Creek; Mrs. Alice Isett Henderson, 
Mrs. Sara Isett Humer [Hamor], of Altoona; Mrs. Eleanor Isett Owens, of 
Dixon, Ill.  Twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild also 
survive.  Mr. Isett was married a second time, on February 4, 1902, to 
Miss Ora Smith, of Tipton, who survives him.
  Mr. Isett was a versatile business man.  He had a powerful physique 
and only recently did his energies flag and his strength seem to 
correspond with his years.  During his active career he was engaged 
largely in lumbering business in Clearfield and Indiana counties.  He 
also carried on flouring and milling business and dealt largely in 
grain.  He was the oldest iron master in this section.  Besides he had 
large real estate holdings in Bellwood and vicinity.  He was also well 
known in the financial world as one of the organizers of the Altoona 
bank, which is now the Central Trust company.  He was its first 
president and served twenty-five years until he began to retire from 
active business life.  He was also a former director of the First 
National bank at Huntingdon.
  For nearly fifteen years his home had been at Bellwood and the 
winters had usually been spent in Florida but for a long number of 
years he had resided at Spruce Creek, where he was a member and former 
officer of the Lower Spruce Creek Presbyterian church.  He attended the 
church of that faith at Bellwood, but had never transferred his 
membership.  He was a long time member of the Mountain City Masonic 
lodge.
  The funeral service will be held at his late home on Main street, 
Bellwood, at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.  Interment at Arch Spring 
cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, November 20, 1916