OBIT: Edward McKIERNAN, 1880, Williamsburg, Blair County, PA

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EDWARD McKIERNAN, ESQ.

  The venerable Edward McKiernan, of Williamsburg, departed this life 
at his residence in Williamsburg, at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, after 
a somewhat protracted illness, surrounded by most of his immediate 
family.  Mr. McKiernan was born in Philadelphia, February, 1802, and 
was, therefore, in his 79th year.  For half a century he has been a 
resident of this county, and has ever been held in the highest respect 
by his fellow-citizens.  He has held the office of Justice of the Peace 
of Woodberry township six consecutive terms, and with two previous 
terms, making his term of Justice about --ty years.  Mr. McKiernan was 
a Democrat, but in that strong Republican township the people voted for 
him without partisan distinction.  This of itself speaks a --ing 
memorial for the good old man who has gone to rest full of years, and 
with the respect and honor of the people among whom he has so long made 
his abode.  With the exception of a son who was killed at the battle of 
Fredericksburg this is the first death in the McKiernan family.  The 
children have been widely separated, and this mournful occasion brought 
all the remaining members of the family together for the first in a 
long time.  There were present John S.; Thomas, of this city; Dr. 
Frank, of Kittanning; Mrs. Maria Vaughan, of this city; Catharine, a 
member of the order of Sisters of Charity of Tidioute, Pa.; Charles T., 
Margaret and Anna Mary, all of Williamsburg.  His funeral will take 
place at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning.  Peace to his ashes.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, June 7, 1880