OBIT:  OTT, Thomas (Rev. Father); 1907; St. Boniface, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 24 May 1907
Volume 41, Number 21


Death of Rev. Thomas Ott 

Rev. Father Thomas B. Ott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ott, 
of St. Boniface, this County, died at Johns Hill, Ky., at 3 
o'clock Wednesday morning of last week of consumption.  He 
had been ailing sometime but his condition did not reach a 
serious state until about six weeks ago when he was 
stricken with an attack of pneumonia which hastened his 
death and he passed peacefully away at the time above 
mentioned.

The deceased was born in St. Boniface on June 1, 1872, and 
at the time of his death was aged 34 years, 11 months and 
14 days.  He was educated for the Priesthood at St. 
Vincent's College, Beatty, where he studied five years and 
at St. Bernard's College at Cullmar, Alabama.  He was 
ordained to the priesthood at Covington, Kentucky, on July 
25, '97 and read his first mass in the church at St. 
Boniface on August 1, 1897.

Father Ott was stationed at Lexington, Kentucky, and later 
transferred to Newport, Alexandria and Morninghew of that 
state.  For the past five years he had been located at 
Johns Hill where he died.  He is survived by his parents 
and the following brothers and sisters:  Henry J.; John G.; 
Mary, wife of Theodore Hoover; and Katharine, wife of 
Thomas Quinn, all of St. Boniface and Barbara, Elizabeth 
and Minnie, at home.

The remains were brought to the home of his parents at St. 
Boniface from which place the funeral services took place 
at ten o'clock Saturday morning with interment in St. 
Benedict's Cemetery at Carrolltown.