OBIT: Susan (WALTON) YON, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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NONAGENARIAN DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME

Mrs. Mary A. Yon Was a Resident of This Vicinity for Eighty Years.

  Suffering a paralytic stroke early yesterday morning, Mrs. Mary A. Yon, 
aged 90, died at 6:45 o'clock last evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
C. F. Neeter, of 23 Washington avenue.  She was well and active until 
striken [sic], having spent the evening before her death visiting a neighbor 
across the street.
  Mrs. Yon was a resident of this vicinity for the past eighty years, her 
parents settling at Allegheny Furnace in 1838, when this region was still a 
wilderness.  She was a young married woman when the first steam engine ran 
over the Allegheny mountains, and often told of the fright of many of the 
untutored people of this region when the shriek of the first steam whistle 
resounded through the valleys.  She was born in Chester county, Pa., July 4, 
1828, the daughter of William and Susan Walton.  The family came to 
Allegheny Furnace when she was 10 years old, after having lived several 
years in Lancaster county.  On April 22, 1846, she was married at Gaysport 
to Henry Yon, who preceded her to the grave.  Mrs. Yon was a charter member 
of the Grace Lutheran church, of this city, and was a member of the Ladies 
Auxiliary society to the First Lutheran church.  She was also a member of 
G.A.R. circle No. 8.  The aged lady was the last of her family, being 
preceded to the grave by twelve brothers and sisters.  Surviving are three 
daughters, Mrs. C. F. Neeter and Mrs. H. E. Leader both of this city, and 
Mrs. Catherine VanLear, of Reedsville, Pa.  Mrs. Yon was the mother of 
twelve children and is survived by thirty-four grandchildren, sixty-three 
great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
  The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, leaving the late 
home at 2.30 o'clock.  Service will be held in the Grace Lutheran church at 
3 o'clock, followed by interment in Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Friday, February 28, 1919, page 10