OBIT: Catharine (MICHAELS) SHOLLENBERGER, 1899, formerly of Blair County, PA

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MRS. CATHARINE SHOLLENBERGER.
Death of a Lady Who Left Many Relatives in This City.

  At 9.15 o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Catharine Shollenberger, widow 
of Darian* Shollenberger, died at the Home of the Ladies of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, at Hawkins Station.  She was aged 68 years, 11 
months and 10 days and her husband died twenty-one years ago.  The 
following children survive: Harry, Wilson, Howard and Mrs. W. B. 
Fickes, all of this city.  Also these brothers and sisters: Hiram 
Michaels, of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Jennie Kelly, of Harrisburg; Mrs. 
Annie Brunnell, Miss Sallie E. Michaels and Joseph E. Michaels, all of 
this city.
  The body will be brought to Altoona this afternoon and taken to the 
residence of her daughter, Mrs. W. B. Fickes, 7 Ninth street, where 
funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  The 
interment will be made in Fairview cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Tuesday, November 14, 1899

* Shollenberger, Garian, 1838-.  2 Lt. B, 125 Pa. Inf., Cpl. C, 3 Pa. 
Inf.  Hoenstine, Floyd.  Soldiers of Blair County.  Hollidaysburg, PA: 
Author, 1940.

Note: Cath Scollenbergin, 49, Harry Scollenbergin, 17, Alvin 
Scollenbergin, 16, Vara Scollenbergin, 13, Wilson Scollenbergin, 6, and 
Howard Scollenbergin, 5, are listed in the 1880 Altoona, Blair County 
census.  Name is census transcriber error; it reads Scollenberger on 
the original page.