OBIT: Mary (ORR) MEADVILLE, 1904, Sinking Valley, Blair County, PA

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  Saturday afternoon at 2.20 Mrs. Mary Meadville, wife of Jacob 
Meadville, died at the family home in Sinking Valley of paralysis, with 
which she was stricken on Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock, while she 
was engaged in her household duties. She was a daughter of Perry and 
Mary Orr, deceased, and was born in Sinking Valley March 14, 1845. The 
greater part of her life was spent in Sinking Valley. She was married 
on October 20, 1889, to Jacob Meadville. She was a member of the 
Lutheran church of Sinking Valley, and was highly esteemed in the 
community in which she lived. Besides her husband, she is survived by 
two brothers and three sisters - T. K. and C. M. Orr, Mrs. Lydia 
Wilson, Mrs. Susie Landis and Mrs. Kate McConnell, all of Altoona. The 
funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the home of 
Mrs. Wilson, 918 Seventh avenue, Altoona. Interment at Fairview 
cemetery.
  
The Tyrone Daily Herald, Thursday, December 8, 1904