OBIT: Catharine McKINSTRY, 1880, of interest in Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF A VENERABLE LADY AT NEWTON HAMILTON

  Mrs. Catharine McKinstry, mother of James McKinstry, of this city, 
and aunt of ex-sheriff James Funk, of Duncansville, died in Newton 
Hamilton, Mifflin county, on Tuesday morning.  She was in her 82d year, 
having been born on the 13th of September, 1799.  For the past eleven 
years Mrs. McKinstry had been an invalid.  In 1854 she met with a 
frightful accident by falling into a well sixty-one feet deep.  The 
well had no water in it and was only partly walled up.  The platform 
over it broke with her and in her descent she caught on the unfinished 
wall, but a large stone giving way she was precipitated to the bottom.  
The stone struck her on the ankle, crushing it and the foot in a 
shocking manner, causing subsequently amputation.  Her funeral was on 
Thursday, the interment taking place at the old McKinstry burying 
ground, near Manayunk.  After the mishaps and sufferings of a long life 
she sleeps well.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, August 28, 1880