OBIT: Elizabeth BYRNE, 1904, Hastings, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 8 Jan 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 54 Miss Elizabeth Byrne Miss Elizabeth Byrne died in Hastings, January 1, 1904, from the infirmities of old age, aged eighty-five years and six months. She was born July 2, 1818, and was baptized by Father Gallitzin at Loretto, her parents then living at a place that was afterwards known as the John Flick farm near Carrolltown. Her father, John Byrne, was born in Ireland and came to this county with his parents about the year of 1793. In 1811 he married Mary Ann Bender, a daughter of John Jacob Bender, who with his family came from Westphalia, Germany and settled near Loretto about one hundred years ago. John Byrne was one of the first settlers in Northern Cambria, having moved to Susquehanna township nearly eighty years ago when it was practically a wilderness. Elizabeth Byrne although a cripple from childhood led a life of usefulness and activity, she not only did her own house work and cared for an aged mother for many years but sewed, spun, knit and quilted for her friends and neighbors. In recent years she lived with her niece, Mrs. Jane Drisket, of Hastings. One sister, Mrs. Agnes Campbell and two brothers, Jacob and Thomas, preceded her to the grave. One brother, Henry Byrne of Ebensburg survives. Her funeral took place Jan. 4 at 9 o'clock a. m. at St. Bernard's Church, Hastings. Interment at St. Joseph's. R. I. P.