OBIT: Mary Ann (McMONIGAL) LEWIS, 1912, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY ANN LEWIS,

Wife of Joseph Lewis died Saturday morning at 7.40 o'clock at the 
family home on Seventeenth street, from carcinoma, from which she had 
suffered for several years.  Her maiden name was McMonigal, a daughter 
of John and Nancy McMonigal of near Port Matilda.  In 1882 she was 
married to Joseph Lewis and has ever since been a resident of Tyrone.  
He age at death was 54 years.  Mrs. Lewis was a Christian woman and a 
good, kind neighbor and a devoted wife and mother.  She was a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal church since she was a young woman.  She is 
survived by her husband, her parents and the following children: Mrs. 
William Reel of Tyrone; Mrs. Edgar Stouffer of Huntingdon; and Mrs. 
Charles Parsons, of Altoona.*  These brothers and sisters also survive: 
Rankin, Daniel and Thomas McMonigal, of Hannah Furnace and Mrs. Samuel 
Cowher of Tyrone.  Funeral services this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock in 
Columbia avenue church by the Rev. C. W. Kane and interment in Grand 
View cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, September 16, 1912

*Mabel (Lewis) Parsons, wife of Charles Stephen Parsons, was the 
daughter of John and Emma Florence (Woomer) Lewis, both of whom had 
died by the time she was three years old.  She was raised by her uncle 
Joseph and aunt Mary Lewis.  Her siblings, Oscar and Amber Lewis, lived 
with their grandparents, Joseph and Anna Woomer, in Snyder Township, 
after the death of their parents.