OBIT: Jessie (METZ) WEIR, 1916, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. ALEXANDER WEIR.

  Mrs. Jessie M. Weir, wife of Alexander Weir, the Eleventh street 
tobacconist and notary public, died yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, at 
her home, 917 Lexington avenue.  Death was due to pneumonia.  Mrs. Weir 
was taken ill on November 11, but her condition was believed to be not 
immediately serious.  During the past few days she suffered a number of 
relapses.  Wednesday midnight and up until the hour of death she sank 
rapidly, passing away peacefully at the hour stated.  She was a 
daughter of the late George M. and Rebecca Metz and was born in this 
city only a half block from the Weir home, residing all her life on 
Lexington avenue.  Christmas day, 1900, she married Alexander Weir in 
Buffalo, N.Y.  Surviving are her husband, one daughter, Miss Helen, at 
home, and one brother, Samuel S. Metz, secretary-treasurer of the 
Mountain City Trust company.  She was a faithful member of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church and was held in high esteem by a wide circle 
of friends, to whom her death came as a distinct shock yesterday 
morning.  Funeral services will be held from the home tomorrow 
afternoon at 3 o'clock, with interment following in Fairview cemetery.  
The body may be viewed from 7 until 9 o'clock this evening.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, November 24, 1916

1910 Altoona Ward 1, Blair County census -
Alexander Weir, 31  
Jessie Weir, 35  
Helen Weir, 7