OBIT: Mary LESLIE, 1885, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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The Late Mrs. George Leslie, Sr.

  The post-mortem of Mrs. George Leslie, deceased, by H. E. Smith, 
M.D., and Drs. Ross, revealed very extensive ulceration and perforation 
of the descending colon, at the sigmoid flexure.  It involved and 
absolutely destroyed a portion of the bowel equal to ten square inches.  
It astonished the physicians present, as it will every intelligent 
reader, that the patient lived so long, or, in other words, that she 
did not die before the disease had inflicted so much injury.  Who can 
estimate the possibilities of life? The funeral took place Sunday 
afternoon and was largely attended.

  Our life contains a thousand springs,
    And dies if one be gone;
  Strange, that a harp of a thousand strings,
    Should keep in tune so long.

Death of Mrs. George Leslie, Sr.
 
  Mrs. Mary Leslie, the estimable wife of George Leslie, sr., died at 
her husband's home on Bell avenue and First street on Friday afternoon 
at twenty-five minutes past 1 o'clock, aged 54 years and 9 months.  
Mrs. Leslie had been ill for a number of weeks past and the cause of 
her death was typhoid dysentery.  She leaves to mourn their loss of a 
kind wife and affectionate mother, a husband and five children.  These 
latter are Jacob W., George, William, Carrie and Lizzie.

Altoona Tribune, November 19, 1885