OBIT: Maggie S. WISHART, 1880, Martinsburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.
Death of a Young Lady.

  The painful, though not entirely unexpected intelligence of the death 
of Miss Maggie S. Wishart was received here on Sunday evening.  Miss 
Maddie was a daughter of the late Dr. Alexander Wishart, and was well 
known and dearly beloved by a large circle of friends.  Some time 
since, at the death of her sister, Mrs. Eichelberger of Saxton, Bedford 
county, Miss Wishart took charge of her orphaned nephew and removed 
thither from her home in this place.  While in discharge of her duty 
she was nine weeks ago stricken with the typhoid fever, which resulted 
in her death as above stated.  Miss Wishart possessed a disposition of 
rare sweetness and her early demise will be mourned by many hearts.  
Early in life she professed religion and connected herself with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which denomination she has ever been a 
consistent member.  Her remains were brought to this place yesterday 
evening, and the funeral will occur today at 11 A.M., from her late 
home, the residence of H. C. Nicodemus, Esq.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, November 2, 1880

1880 Saxton, Bedford County census -
Eli Eichelberger, 40 
James A. Eichelberger, 8 
John C. Eichelberger, 28, cousin 
Thomas Eichelberger, 24, cousin
Margaret Nixon, 87, aunt
William A. Nicodemus, 14, nephew
Margaret S. Wishart, 27, sister-in-law