OBIT: Mayberry Edwin RHOADS, 1890, Kittanning Point, Blair County, PA

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A Much Afflicted Family.

  We are called upon to record the sad fact that another death has 
occurred in the family of Mr. C. J. Rhoads, agent of the Pennsylvania 
railroad at Kittanning Point, this time the eldest son, Mayberry Edwin, 
aged 18 years, 3 months and 26 days.  Just two weeks ago, the body of 
Ada Alberta was laid away in Fairview cemetery.  Mayberry Edwin died on 
Tuesday evening at 11.18 o'clock, after an illness of two weeks, being 
confined to his bed the most of this time.  His case was not thought 
serious until some hours before his death, hence it was a great shock 
to the family.
  Mr. C. J. Rhoads assumed the duties of the Pennsylvania railroad 
office at Kittanning Point January 1, 1890.  His family moved to the 
above place March 1.  Being strangers among strangers, this double 
bereavement comes to them with peculiar sadness.  The comfort the 
stricken family has in their sorrow is the fact that their family is 
growing larger in heaven, as it is being diminished in earth.  The 
subject of this notice was prepared for the hour of death, expressing a 
wish to go home.
  The funeral will take place to-day.  It will arrive on the 1.40 p.m. 
train.  After interment in Fairview cemetery, services will be held in 
the First Lutheran church at 2.30 p.m.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, December 18, 1890