OBIT: Mary A. WILSON, 1918, native of Blair County, PA

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WILSON

  Miss Mary A. Wilson died at the home of W. H. Humphrys, at Johnstown, 
yesterday morning at 6 o'clock, of diseases incident to old age.  She 
was the daughter of William and Martha Wilson and was born in Sinking 
Valley on March 15, 1841.  She attended school in Blair county and 
later entered a private school in Ohio.  She then taught a few years at 
Petersburg but returned to the farm when her mother died.  After her 
father died she taught at Mt. Etna for two years and then came to the 
Miller building in Altoona where she taught school for about fifteen 
years.  About sixteen years ago she gave up teaching and made her home 
with a sister, Mrs. Maggie Isett at East Liberty, Pittsburgh.  She was 
a faithful member of the First Presbyterian church of this city and was 
the last of her generation.  The remains will be brought to the home of 
S. T. Knox of 2626 Broad avenue today.  The funeral services will be 
held at the Knox home at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and the remains 
will be taken to Union Furnace on the 10.15 a.m. train.  From there the 
cortege will go to Sinking Valley where short services will be held at 
the cemetery where interment will be made.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, April 2, 1918