Clearfield County PA Archives - Obituaries: Lawhead. Mary Margaret, Nov 1955

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Clearfield Progress 11-28-1955
HYDE--Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the 
Nicholson Funeral Home for Mrs. Mary Margaret Lawhead, 89, who died at her 
home at Hyde at 10 a.m. Saturday.  Rev. H. Merle Saxman officiated and 
interment was in Centre Cemetery.  
Mrs. Lawhead was born July 4, 1866 at Curwensville.  
She is survived by five sons, Walter D., Thomas F., Robert H., Hugh, and 
Kenneth, all of Hyde; 16 grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Annie Snoke, 
Clearfield.  

Additional Comments:
Mary (Maggie) was the daughter of Thomas W. 1827-1875 & Mary Caldwell Fleming 
1841-1918.  Her father was postmaster at Curwensville when he suddenly died in 
1875.  Her mother was the daughter of Alexander Caldwell who had been sheriff 
of Clearfield County and his wife Margaret Hartshorne.  Her brothers and 
sisters were: Leroy, Karl, Walter Guy, and Anna Jean.  As a youngster she 
lived in downtown Curwensville across the street from the Methodist church.  
She married Nathan Orris Lawhead 1850-1940, the son of Robert Lawhead and 
Laura Hoyt.  She was a member of Centre Methodist church and spent her married 
life on the old Robert Lawhead homestead south of Hyde.  
She was the mother of my father, Robert Harris (Pete) Lawhead.