OBIT: Mary (EAKEN) WAITE, 1913, Grazierville, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY WAITE.
Died at Grazierville Tuesday. Funeral Thursday.

  Mrs. Mary Waite, widow of the late David Waite, died at Grazierville 
Tuesday at nine o'clock, after only one week's illness. Mrs. Waite was 
a daughter of the late William and Nancy Eaken, and was born at 
Grazierville April 1b [sic], 1836. Her husband, David Waite, preceded 
her to the grave December 16, 1893. Mrs. Waite was a most excellent 
woman and a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church of 
Grazierville. She is survived by the following children: Miss Lula 
Waite and Daniel E. Waite at home; James W. Waite, of Grazierville; 
Mrs. Margaret Edminston, of Bellwood; John H. Waite, of Kansas; Mrs. 
Nancy Shelow, of Orchard Crossing; Mrs. Anna McFarland, of Pittsburgh, 
and David B. Waite, at home. She is also survived by eighteen 
grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren, and one brother, 
William R. Eaken, of Grazierville, and one sister, Mrs. Samuel Reel, of 
Tyrone.
  Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in 
the Methodist church at Grazierville, and will be conducted by Rev. Mr. 
Sherman, the pastor. Interment at Grazierville. Please omit flowers.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, December 4, 1913, p. 1, 
col. 7