OBIT: Elizabeth WALLS, 1915, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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MISS ELIZABETH WALLS
An Aged Tyrone Lady Died on Thursday Evening.

  At the Coulter home on Pennsylvania avenue, Miss Elizabeth Walls died 
at 6.20 Thursday evening, her passing preceding that of the old year by 
less than six hours.  Deceased was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth 
Walls and was born on a farm near Newton Hamilton, June 11, 1844.  Her 
early life was spent in the country, but for forty-eight years she had 
resided with the family of J. S. Coulter, coming with them when they 
moved from Mt. Union to Tyrone some years ago.  That these friends with 
whom she had lived for almost a half century were deeply attached to 
Miss Walls is evident by the tender love and care given her during a 
period of more than twenty years of invalidism.  She in turn was 
devoted to their interests and regarded them with warm and loyal 
affection.
  Miss Walls was a member of the Presbyterian church and when her 
health permitted was always in her place, grateful of heart and 
respectful of mind.  She was equally faithful in attendance at the 
Sunday school session and the meetings of the Home Missionary and 
Ladies Aid societies to which she belonged.  Of her own kinsfolk, two 
brothers survive, both farmers - Absalom, near Petersburg, and David, 
Newton Hamilton.
  Miss Walls was in delicate health for more than thirty years, having 
suffered all that time from bronchitis and for the last twenty years 
from the worst form of rheumatism, which distracted her hands and feet 
to such an extent that to most people they would have been useless; but 
as some times happens in such cases, the physical handicap was overcome 
by the bright, brave spirit within.  She bore the suffering with 
uncomplaining fortitude and kept up her little round of kindly offices 
among friends and neighbors.  She was helpless in bed for two weeks and 
in this time her decline had been so rapid that friends will not be 
surprised to learn the taper of her life went out with the passing 
year.
  Funeral services were held at the Coulter home on Pennsylvania avenue 
at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H. W. Bieber, pastor 
of the First Presbyterian church.  Interment in East Lawn cemetery.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 7, 1915