OBIT: Sybil C. SHOEMAKER, 1877, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ DIED. SHOEMAKER - On Saturday evening, at eight o'clock, Mrs. Sybil C. Shoemaker, wife of John Shoemaker, Esq., aged 73 years, 9 months and 7 days. Funeral tomorrow afternoon at 2 1/2 o'clock, from the First Methodist Church. Evening Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, January 22, 1877 OBITUARY. Mrs. John Shoemaker. On Saturday evening at eight o'clock in her 74th year, Mrs. Sybil C. Shoemaker, wife of John Shoemaker, Esq., who resides on Twelfth avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, was called upon to lay down the cross and take up the crown. She has been suffering for nearly eighteen years, being confined to the house for a period of five years, but always bore up under her afflictions as a true Christian. After life's trials are over, After the ending has come, Safe on the wings of Angels She is carried to her Home. Evening Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, January 22, 1877