OBIT: Anna (SESSAMAN) McCOY, 1898, Vail, Blair County, PA

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AFTER LONG SUFFERING.
Mrs. Anna McCoy Dies at Her Home Near Vail Station.

  Mrs. Anna McCoy, wife of James McCoy, died at her home near Vail at 
9.25 o'clock Sunday morning, of asthma from which she has been a 
sufferer for the past twenty years.
  Born about a mile north of Vail, October 13, 1852, the deceased was 
aged at death 45 years, 10 months and 22 days.  She is survived by her 
husband and six children, Mrs. Woomer, of Jersey Shore, and Melissa, 
Minnie, Edwin, Amber and Sarah, at home.  Surviving also are her aged 
mother, Mrs. Sessaman, two sisters and two brothers.  The latter are 
Mrs. Ed. Igon and Mrs. W. R. Myers, of Tyrone; Thomas and Scott 
Sessaman, of near Vail.  The deceased was a faithful and devout member 
of the Methodist church, and she was fully prepared to meet the summons 
beyond.
  The funeral cortege left her late home at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning 
for the Bald Eagle M. E. church where services were conducted by Rev. 
V. T. Rue, pastor of the Columbia Avenue M. E. church of Tyrone.  
Interment in Bald Eagle cemetery.

The Tyrone Herald, Thursday, September 8, 1898