OBIT: Isabella (HENDERSON) WAITE, 1900, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Michael S. Caldwell

Copyright 2009.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/
_________________________________________ 

AT MIDDAY.
Mrs. Isabella Waite Died at Her Home on West Washington Avenue.

  Mrs. Isabella Waite, widow of the late John G. Waite, died at her 
home, 866 West Washington avenue, at 12 o'clock today from nervous 
prostration, super-induced by stomach trouble, from which she had been 
a sufferer for a number of months.
  Deceased was the daughter of David and Margaret Henderson, both now 
deceased. She was born near Franklinville, Huntingdon county, on the 
7th of April, 1826, and was aged 74 years, 4 months and 24 days at 
death. She was married to John G. Waite at the family homestead near 
Spruce Creek, on the 27th of March, 1851, and thereafter resided in 
Eden Valley until 1860, when Mr. Waite became the owner and settled on 
the farm in Warriorsmark township now occupied by F. L. Peck and 
family. They moved to Tyrone in July, 1885, and this has been the 
family home since that time. Mr. Waite died in November, 1891.
  Three daughters of the deceased survive viz: Mrs. F. L. Peck, near 
Tyrone; Mrs. Harry E. Gardner, Wilkinsburg, Pa., and Mrs. John B. 
Campbell, Tyrone. Two brothers and three sisters also survive: Thomas 
K. Henderson, Warriorsmark; David P. Henderson, Spruce Creek; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Waite, Eden Valley; Miss Mary Henderson, Tyrone, and Mrs. 
Samuel Dysart, of Franklin Grove, Ill.
  Mrs. Isabella Henderson Waite was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church from girlhood, her name being on the church roll for full half a 
century. In Tyrone she was connected with the First church. She was an 
earnest christian woman, whose life was consistent with her religious 
professions. As a wife and mother she was kind and devoted, ever 
watchful and always interested in the comfort and welfare of those for 
whom she was responsible as the head of a happy household. As a 
neighbor and friend she was kind, charitable and always helpful where 
her services were needed. A good and true woman in every sense, she 
lived to a ripe age, and has finally gone to reap the reward of a 
faithful servant of the Supreme Master.
  The funeral will be held Monday. Services at the late home of the 
deceased at 3 o'clock in the afternoon by her pastor, Rev. John A. Wood 
Jr. Interment at Tyrone cemetery.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Friday, August 31, 1900, p. 4, col. 2