OBIT: Amanda K. RAISON, 1906, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Altoona Mirror 
Tuesday, January 23, 1906 

Mrs. Amanda K. RAISON, widow of Dr. C. L. Raison, a prominent and distinguished 
Kentuckian, died at 7:30 o’clock this morning at the home of her son, Dr. Louis 
W. Raison, of 1640 Twentieth avenue, of heart disease. Deceased was born in 
Greenup county, Ky., and was aged about 80 years. Her husband belonged to the 
old French nobility, whose sixth grandfather was King Louis XVI. Many years ago 
the family located on the Island  of St. Domingo, where they operated large 
plantations, until the blacks began massacring the whites, when they boarded 
one of their boats and come to America and settling in Greenup county. The 
title, the  crest, a boar’s head and the coat of arms, a lion, are matters of 
record in France. Dr. Raison wears the coat of arms, but prefers to be known 
simply as an American, although entitled to the title Prince. Mrs. Raison was a 
Presbyterian. She leaves two sons and one daughter, Dr. L. W. Raison, of 
Altoona, and Lawyer C. L. Raison, of Newport, Ky., and Mrs. Eve HARTZELL, of 
North Benton, O.


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