OBIT: Alexander ADAMS, 1893, Chester Hill, Clearfield County, PA

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Death of Alexander Adams.

  Alexander Adams, died at his home in Chester Hill borough, adjoining 
Philipsburg, on Thursday morning at 2 o'clock, after a long and tedious 
illness with Bright's disease.
  He was born in Philipsburg March 26, 1823. His parents were David and 
Letitia Adams. His father died in 1874 but his venerable mother is 
still living at the great age of 90 years. He leaves a wife and ten 
children. He also has four brothers and three sisters living, viz., 
John M., James I., of Clearfield; Oscar, of Philipsburg; David, of 
Tyrone, Mrs. Mary Fisher, of Tyrone, and Mrs. Letitia Hartman, of 
Duncan___, and Mrs. Emma Southards, of Harrisburg.
  During the early years of his manhood Mr. Adams was a stage driver 
and a good one. With the advent of the Tyrone and Clearfield railroad 
the business of stage driving decayed and Mr. Adams went to railroading 
and soon rose to the responsible position of conductor, on the Tyrone 
division, later serving as dispatcher in the Osceola yard, until about 
ten years ago, when his health gave way and he was forced to abandon 
it. Since that time he has been an invalid. At the time of this death 
he was burgess of the little borough of Chester Hill.
  Rev. T. S. Wilcox conducted the funeral services at the late home of 
the deceased Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, February 9, 1893