OBIT: Catherine E. TANEYHILL, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. CATHERINE TANEYHILL

  Mrs. Catherine E. Taneyhill, of 3004 Sixth avenue, died at 9 o'clock 
yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Dalske, of 
414 Chestnut avenue, of congestion of the lungs.  She was ill but a 
short time, and was born in South Hampton Furnace, Pa., on January 16, 
1851, and was married December 24, 1863, to G. W. Taneyhill.  She came 
to Altoona in 1876, and is survived by her husband and eight* children: 
Mrs. H. P. Diehl, Mrs. A. S. Johnson, Mrs. Rose Amos, Mrs. George 
Dalske, R. D., J. W., and George W. Taneyhill, all of this city.  Two 
children preceded her to the grave.  She is also survived by two 
sisters, Mrs. Alice Benson, of Duncansville, and Mrs. Adeline McNulty, 
of Altoona, and thirty-one grandchildren.  She was a member of the 
Simpson Methodist Episcopal church.  The funeral services will be held 
from the Chestnut avenue home on Monday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, in 
charge of Rev. V. T. Rue.  Interment will follow in Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, January 13, 1917

* Seven children are listed in the obituary.