OBIT: Sarah (MATTERN) THOMPSON, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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  Mrs. Sarah Mattern Thompson died of a complication of diseases 
Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert T. Caldwell, in 
Altoona, aged 79 years, 2 months and 10 days.  She was born on the old 
Mattern homestead near Franklinville, Huntingdon county, and in 1839 
she was united in marriage to Hon. John B. Thompson, now deceased.  To 
this union four children were born, all of whom survive, viz: Jennie 
E., at the home of her sister in Altoona; D. M., of Duncansville; J. 
H., of Indianapolis, Ind.; and Mrs. Robert T. Caldwell, of Altoona. The 
brothers and sisters who survive are Mrs. Alexander Bobb, of 
Martinsburg; Mrs. Elizabeth Shoup, of Findley, O.; Andrew Mattern, of 
Huntington, Ind.; William, of Franklin, Pa.;  J. C., of Hollidaysburg, 
and George W., who resides with his son on the homestead farm, and is 
the father of A. J. Mattern and Mrs. W. H. Flenner, of Tyrone.  The 
remains wm will be taken to Spruce Creek tomorrow morning for 
internment.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., March 13, 1899