OBIT: McCormick, Lucinda Philomena (Kennedy); 1908; Johnstown, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 24 Apr 1908 Volume 42, Number 17 Mrs. John McCormick Lucinda Philomena, wife of John McCormick, of 531 Linden Avenue, Johnstown, Pa., died at her home on Saturday afternoon last at 1:30 of a complication of diseases, the immediate cause of death having been lagrippe and rheumatism. Mrs. McCormick was the fourth daughter of Charles B. and Mary Porter Kennedy and was born at head Plane No. 3 on Allegheny Portage Railroad about one hundred yards southeast of the present PRR passenger station at Benn's Creek, October 14, 1849, her father following the vocation of engineer of the stationary engine at the head of that place. Subsequently he removed to the head of Plane No. 1 where he ran the stationary engine at that point and built and ran the old St. Charles Hotel. Here the youth of the subject of this sketch was spent receiving a good common school education and afterwards preparing herself for the teachers' profession in a country normal school taught by J. Frank Condon at Summit, and at the age of sixteen years she had become one the most successful lady teachers of the county, and thereafter up to the time of her marriage she was almost continuously employed, winter and summer, in teaching, often finishing out the unexpired terms of other teachers and subscription schools in the summer time and many of her former pupils today in counties of Blair, Cambria and Allegheny, mourn the death of a loved teacher and dear friend. On February 25, 1873 at Nuptial Mass in St. Peter's Church, Allegheny, by the pastor Rev. Richard Phelan, afterwards bishop of the Pittsburg diocese, she was married to John McCormick of Wilmore, and thenceforth until November last, with the exception of about three months that they resided in Wilmore, lived on their farm in Summerhill township when the family removed to 531 Linden Avenue, Johnstown, the present home of the family. To this union nine children were born, two of whom died in infancy; one – Francis Kennedy McCormick, when he was about five years of age; and one – John S. McCormick on August 12, 1905; Charles P. McCormick, a steam shove engineer now employed by the Millard Construction Company on an extensive contact near Portageville, N. Y.; May McCormick, principal of the Rockville schools in Croyle township; Othelia, a milliner; Jennie McCormick, who while finishing a musical education at St. Joseph Academy, McSherrystown, Penna., was compelled to remain at home at the Christmas vacation to assist in taking care of her mother; and Stella, assistant teacher of the Rockville schools Of a once large family of brothers and sisters, there remain: J. H. Kennedy of Braddock, who with the husband and children of the deceased was present at her death bed; A. G. Kennedy, the well known West Penn RR locomotive engineer of Freeport; Anna – relict of Thomas L. Parrish of Loretto – whose health is now in such a precarious condition that she was unable to attend her sister's funeral and Maude, wife of S. S. Shultz of Swissvale. Charles P. Parrish of Braddock; A. G. and Walter Parrish; Mrs. Mary Quarts of Allegheny Township; Raymond Parrish, PRR engineer of Altoona; Mrs. John Spargo of West Winfield, Butler County; Mrs. Will Crayer of Braddock; A G. Denny of Butler; Mrs. J. Lawrence Sullivan of East End, Pittsburg; Mrs. Dr. O'Hara of Pittsburg; James and Porter Kennedy of Braddock; A. Gibbs Shultz of Cleveland, O. and Mary, Paul and Kennedy Shultz of Swissvale are nieces and nephews of Mrs. McCormick, while Mr. and Mrs. P. Sweeny; Miss Sallie Sweeney, of Lilly; Miss Kate O'Keefe of Pittsburg; Mrs. Rose Dunmyer of Conemaugh; Mrs. S. C. Bailey and Mrs. Alice Farrell of Johnstown are cousins and many other relatives are scattered over Pennsylvania and the West. Mrs. McCormick had been in life a dutiful child, loving sister and friend, an efficient and conscientious teacher, a noble wife – a true help mate in every sense of the word, a loving affectionate mother, a kind charitable neighbor of the most self-sacrificing generosity and ever a faithful Christian – a devout member of the Catholic Church. On Tuesday morning last the mortal remains of the deceased enclosed in a neat casket furnished by the W. H. Cullen, of Wilmore, who had charge of the funeral which was managed with marked propriety was conveyed from her late residence where from the time of her death very many of the kind people of Johnstown had called to sympathize with her family and pay their respects to her remains, to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station and thence to Wilmore where in St. Bartholomew church of which she had been a member for almost thirty-five years, a solemn high mass of requiem was sung with the rector Rev. Father James B. Egan, as celebrant; Rev. Father Philip Bohan of St. Patrick's, Johnstown, who had prepared her for death and Rev. Father P. J. Canote of Ehrenfeld, Miss Sadie Farber, presiding at the organ, at the close of which Rev. Father Egan preached an eloquent and pathetic sermon highly eulogistic of the virtues of the departed to a very large assemblage of mourners and friends, after which her remains were interred by the side of her son – John S. McCormick – in the family lot in the new cemetery near the church when all with respectful demeanor departed from the spot firm in the conviction that although they had lost a dear friend on earth they had gained one more in that home of the bless beyond the grave where sin and sorrow enter not, but in which all who really desire it on earth may secure an everlasting habitation.