OBIT: Harriet L. (KENNEY) SILKNITTER, 1894, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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Death of Mrs. David M. Silknitter 

  Harriet Lavine, wife of David Silknitter, died at her home on Blair 
avenue, near Fourteenth street, at ten o'clock yesterday morning, of 
consumption and scrofula of the stomach.  The deceased had been ill for 
a year past but had borne her suffering with a patient Christian 
fortitude, passing away in the confident hope of a blissful hereafter.
  Mrs. Silknitter was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Kenney, of 
Cold Spring Forge, who survive her.  She was born August 10, 1861, her 
age at death being 32 years, 5 months and 7 days.  On August 16, 1883, 
she was united in marriage by Rev. Dr. J. M. McMurray, to David M. 
Silknitter, and to this union were born five children, four of whom, 
with the grief-stricken husband, survive to mourn the loss of a loving 
and tender mother and wife.  The children are Mabel, Grace, Ralph and 
Vida.  The brothers and sisters surviving are James M., William, Mrs. 
George Hummell, Mrs. Maggie Fry, and Marion, all of Tyrone.
  The funeral services will be held in the First Methodist Episcopal 
church, of which the deceased was a member, on Friday afternoon at 2 
o'clock, and will be conducted by her pastor, Rev. R. H. Gilbert. 
Interment in Tyrone cemetery.
  "There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
     This life of mortal breath
   Is but suburb of the life elysian,
     Whose portal we call Death."

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 18, 1894