OBIT: Charlotte (WEBER) SLEMMER, 1926, Logan Township, Blair County, PA

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MRS. CHARLOTTE WEBER SLEMMER,

Widow of David [sic] Slemmer, died yesterday at noon at her home on 
Pottsgrove avenue, in the East End, death following a brief illness 
attributed to paralysis.  She was born at Troutsville, Clearfield 
county, Aug. 1, 1841.  In 1858, she was united in marriage with Daniel 
Slemmer, now deceased, and had been a resident of the East End for 
fifty-four years.  She was the mother of fifteen children, six of whom 
survive, as follows: Charles of Chicago, Mrs. Sarah P. Fasick, W. D. 
Slemmer, Milton Slemmer, Mrs. Jennie Ilfish [McIlfish] and Daniel 
Slemmer, all of Altoona.  Twenty-six grandchildren and seventeen great-
grandchildren also survive.  She also reared a child for a neighbor who 
was in very poor circumstances.  Up to the day before she was stricken, 
she worked in her garden, which she worked for many years.  She moved 
to the house where she died fifty-one years ago.  When Mrs. Slemmer 
moved into the house in which she died, the place was surrounded by a 
wilderness, and her husband bought the land from what is now Pottsgrove 
avenue, back to the run at the foot of the mountain, part of which is 
now Rose Hill cemetery, Mr. Slemmer clearing off much of the land, 
which he farmed for many years.  About one acre of this ground was 
retained for a house garden where Mrs. Slemmer devoted much of her time 
during the summer months.  Funeral services will be held at 2.30 
o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Salem Reformed church.  Interment 
will be made in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., October 1, 1926