OBIT: Thomas WALLACE, 1889, formerly of Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF A FORMER CITIZEN.

  Mr. Thomas Wallace, the venerable father of Mrs. James Curry, of this 
city, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Reilly, in 
Lancaster city, at noon Wednesday, aged about 89 years.  Mr. Wallace 
was well known in this county, having resided in Hollidaysburg and 
Altoona for about fifteen years preceding 1873, the last ten years of 
which time was spent in this city.  For many years preceding his 
removal to Hollidaysburg he resided in Huntingdon, where he was engaged 
in the hotel business.  He was a genial, kind-hearted and much 
respected old gentleman, and had hosts of friends here and elsewhere 
who will be sorry to learn of his death, though he lived many years 
beyond the three score and ten allotted to humanity.
  He was the father of six children, two boys and four girls, four of 
whom, namely, Mrs. Mary Reilly, of Lancaster; Mrs. Margaret McGovern, 
of Easton; Mrs. James E. Curry, of this city, and John Wallace, of 
Point Comfort, Virginia, are living.  He was a member of the Catholic 
church and died in full communion with that faith after receiving the 
last rites of religion.  Mrs. Curry departed for Lancaster at noon 
yesterday, a dispatch having reached here that her father was at the 
point of death, followed by another soon after announcing that the end 
had been reached.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday, March 28, 1889