OBIT: Sarah Jane (SPADE) SPIERS, 1904, Gallitzin, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, April 1, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 14

Mrs. Sarah Jane Spiers

  Mrs. Sarah Jane Spires (sic), wife of Wesley Spires of Gallitzin, 
died at 9 o'clock last Thursday morning at her home on Church street, 
after a five weeks' illness from paralysis.  She was a daughter of the 
late John and Louise Spade of Summit and was born at Oakdale Forge, 
Dauphin county, July 31, 1831, being at the time of her death nearly 69 
years of age.  She was married in Johnstown to Wesley Spiers, October 
23, 1853, and with her husband moved to Gallitzin in 1878. Fourteen 
children were born to this union, eight of whom died in infancy, five 
being buried in the old Union graveyard in Johnstown.  The six children 
who survive are Henry of Columbus; Mrs. A. Rose of Minneapolis; Emory 
and F. A. of Gallitzin; Mrs. Lizzie Hewlings of Tyrone and Amos at 
home.  She is also survived by 17 grandchildren and four great 
grandchildren.
  Two sisters and four brothers also survive: Mrs. Harriet Campio [sic - Champeno)
of Johnstown and Miss Lizzie Spade of Summit; John, Henry and George of 
Ohio and William of Plane No. 6.  Mrs. Spiers was a lifelong member of 
the Methodist Church and was highly esteemed by all who knew her.
  The funeral services were held at in the church at Gallitzin at 2 
o'clock Sunday. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Gallitzin.  
Among the relatives attending the funeral from Johnstown were Mrs. W. 
E. Keedy and Mrs. H. L. Schwing and son, Louis, of Conemaugh street, 
the former two nieces of the deceased.