OBIT: Theodore F. VanSCOYOC, 1905, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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Theodore F. VanScoyoc
Died of Pneumonia At His Home, 1640 North Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Theodore F. VanScoyoc died at the family home, 1640 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, at 1 o'clock Saturday morning.  He was ill one week and 
suffered from an attack of pneumonia.  He was aged 68 years, 4 mouths 
and 25 days.  Theodore Frelinghuyson VanScoyoc, was born at 
Charlottesville, three miles west of Tyrone, on Saturday, September 3, 
1836, and grew to manhood in the community.  He was the son of Thomas 
and Elender VanScoyoc, both of whom died many years ago.  Three 
brothers and three sisters are dead also, the last one to die being 
William E. VanScoyoc, who passed away at the home of the only surviving 
brother, Abram VanScoyoc, on Tuesday of this week.  On December 28, 
1864, Theodore F. VanScoyoc and Miss Isabell Holter were united in 
marriage.  Mrs. VanScoyoc survives her husband with the following sons 
and daughters: Mrs. H. D. Cree, of Tyrone; Mrs. A. H. Griffith, of 
Akron, Ohio; Mrs. H. L. Camp, of Pittsburgh; Thomas J. VanScoyoc of 
Niagara Falls; Miss Virginia, Harry A. and Lloyd E., at the family home 
in Tyrone.  The deceased entered the employ of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad company in the year 1852, and his connection with the railroad 
was practically continuous until the present.  He was a roadman in the 
civil engineer corps that surveyed the routes of the Tyrone and 
Clearfield and Bald Eagle Valley railroads.  His first service with the  
Pennsylvania company was on the middle division, but when the Tyrone 
division was opened to traffic he became a fireman on that division and 
later was promoted to engineer, in which capacity he served to the end 
of his life.  His last position was that of engineer of the Tyrone 
crew, valley local freight.  In this place, he had served the past 
eight or ten years.  He was a careful, competent and popular 
railroader.  A good citizen of Tyrone for forty-five years, Mr. 
VanScoyoc was always active in the community and was known by almost 
everybody here and along the route of railroad where he so long pulled 
the throttle of an engine.  He was active and influential in whatever 
association he was enrolled, and always had an opinion to express upon 
any question that came up.  He was a member of Tyrone Lodge of the 
Masonic Fraternity, one of the original members of the local lodge of 
Knights of Pythias and a past chancellor, and a charter member of the 
local lodge of Red Men.  Besides these he was connected with the local 
castle of the Golden Eagle, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and 
Pennsylvania Railroad Relief Association.  The funeral was held on 
Monday afternoon.  Services at the home by Reverends J. H. Daugherty, 
H. L. Jacobs and Frank Howes, at 2 o'clock.  Interment at Tyrone 
cemetery.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., February 2, 1905