Blair County PA Archives Obituaries.....Nicholas, Rebecca W.  March 30, 1891
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Tyrone Herald  4/2/1891
Mrs. Rebecca W. Nicholas    Tyrone Herald  4/2/1891

Monday evening at about half past six o'clock, Tyrone was again visited by the 
reaper death, taking as its victim a much respected lady who was advanced in 
years—Mrs. Rebecca W. Nicholas, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. David Adams 
on Washington avenue. She contracted a cold last Saturday morning which 
gradually grew worse, resulting in congestion of the lungs, causing death. The 
deceased was born in Chester county, a short distance from Philadelphia on 
August 8, 1810, being in consequence at the ripe old age of eighty years, seven 
months and twenty two days of age at the time of her demise. Her maiden name 
was Rebecca W. Jackson, and in 1835, at Mifflinburg, Union county she was 
united in marriage to Jacob Nicholas, deceased, of Lancaster county. They 
remained but a short time in Mifflinburg, when they moved to Pine Grove, Centre 
county; where they remained for a number of years. They went from there to 
Philipsburg where they lived only about one and one-half years, thence to 
Altoona where they enjoyed married life for about eighteen years when Mr. 
Nicholas passed away. Mrs. Nicholas remained in Altoona, living with her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sell, until about one and one-half 
years ago when Mrs. Sell died. She then came to Tyrone to live with her only 
surviving daughter, Mrs. David Adams, where she had lived ever since and last 
evening very peacefully passed away. She was a very devout Christian lady 
having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for the past fifty or 
sixty years. She was the mother of but three children, all of whom preceded her 
to the grave except Mrs. David Adams, of this place, who is the only surviving 
immediate relative of the deceased.  Short funeral services were held at the 
home of her daughter on Washington avenue yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, 
after which the remains were taken on the 3.05 train to Altoona and directly 
from the station at that place to Fairview cemetery where the interment 
occurred.


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