OBIT: Mary (WOOMER) WEIGHT, 1894, Ironville, Blair County, PA

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A Sudden Death at Ironsville.

  Mrs. Mary Weight, wife of George Weight, died suddenly at her home at 
Ironsville Tuesday afternoon.  Shortly after having eaten a hearty 
Christmas dinner she was seized by a stroke of paralysis and without 
rallying from the severe attack, she passed away about four o'clock.  
The sad even cast a gloom over the household where so soon before the 
brightness of Christmas day was present to give good cheer.
  Mrs. Weight, whose maiden name was Mary Woomer, was born at Bald 
Eagle, September 9, 1839, her age at death 65 years, 3 months and 16 
days.  In her early life she became a resident of Ironsville where had 
been her home the past thirty-eight years.  She was united in marriage 
August 19, 1858, to George Weight, who survives her, together with the 
following children: Thomas, Harry, Grant, Charles, Adessa, Calvin and 
Walter, of Ironsville; Mrs. Viola Gillmen, of Tyrone; and Mrs. 
Catherine Mingle, of Birmingham.  Also surviving are the following 
sisters and brothers: Mrs. Annie Meadville and Mrs. Ellen Lamson, of 
Nebraska; Mrs. Sarah Steiner, of Gallitzin; Mrs. Margaret Foreman, of 
Ironsville; John and Henry Woomer of Saxton.
  Funeral services will be conducted at the late home of the deceased 
at 10 o'clock Friday morning.  Interment in Tyrone cemetery.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., December 27, 1894