OBIT: James MCNELLY, 1940, Lakemont, Blair County, PA

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Altoona Mirror, Tuesday, July 9, 1940

James McNelly, aged 92, widely known retired employee of the Pennsylvania
railroad and long prominent and respected resident of Lakemont, died at 1
o'clock Monday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G.N. Egan, 339 Logan
Avenue, Lakemont. He was one of the oldest residents of the community and was
well known to neighbors and friends as Daddy McNelly. Death was due to diseases
incident to old age. Mr. McNelly was born at Gap, Lancaster county, on September
15, 1847, a son of David and Rachel (Plank) McNelly. He spent his early life
there and was married April 2, 1872 to Sophie Belle Walton of Altoona, the
ceremony being performed in Lancaster. Mrs. McNelly died in 1923, the year after
the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. McNelly was a
machinist in the Altoona Works department of the Pennsylvania railroad, starting
his employment in 1880 and retiring after 39 years on July 2, 1919. He worked in
the Twelfth street frame shop for many years and retired from the light plant at
Ninth avenue and Thirteenth street. For many years, Mr. McNelly wintered in
Florida and was active as a gardener, maintaining a garden at Lakemont in the
summer and one at St. Petersburg, Fla., during the winters. Surviving are two
daughters, Mrs. M.P. Boggs of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Mrs. Gordon N. Egan, at
whose home he died. A son died in childhood. Eight grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren also survive. Friends are being received at the Egan home.

MCNELLY - Funeral services for James McNelly of South Lakemont will be held at
2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. G.N. Egan, 339
Logan avenue, South Lakemont, by Rev. J.W. Wible. Interment in Rose Hill
cemetery. Friends are being received at the Egan home.

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