Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Tyler, Isabella Rose Mahaffey August 13, 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diana Tyler LiebeLeah@aol.com November 14, 2009, 8:57 pm Daily Gazette And Bulletin Centennial Edition 1801-1901 Williamsport, PA December 1901 The oldest subscriber to the Gazette and Bulletin, and probably the oldest subscriber to any paper in the state, is Mrs. David Tyler, of Tyler, Pa. She was married to David Tyler, January 30, 1830, in Northumberland County, across the river from Montgomery Station, at the home of her brother-in-law, Samuel Reed, a brother of the late Dr. John Reed, of Williamsport. In April, they moved to a farm on Lycoming Creek, across the creek from Fields Station. On their way to their new home they stopped at the office of the Lycoming Gazette and subscribed for the paper. During the more than 71 years which have elapsed since that journey Mrs. Tyler has been a constant subscriber to the Gazette and its successor, the Gazette and Bulletin. Mrs. Tyler says of it: "It was a small affair at that time and was the only copy of a Williamsport paper that came to Trout Run. On Saturday evenings the neighbors came for miles around to hear it read. "The paper was usually sent by Cornelius Field or Firm Field, the conductor or the engineer of the one daily train, and was handed off to whoever happened to be in sight, to be delivered at Squire Tyler's. Though this would be a risky method in these days, it never failed then. "The news of the day consisted of the health of the belles of the town, Mary Strawbridge and Mary Mucklerath, a few local items, some politics, with the advertisements of Grafius, Tunison Coryell, Ralph Elliott, Henry Lenhart and a few others." After a few years, the Tylers moved to Trout Run. It was at this time that a runaway team dashed into a party of children at play, of which the Tyler's three-year-old twins, Martha and Martin, were a part. Martha was killed and Martin injured. the train stood at the station and Cornelius Fields took the engine and started for Williamsport for a doctor. He made the run of fifteen miles in forty minutes, one of the fastest runs which had ever been made on that railroad. In 1848, the Tyler's moved to Tyler, then a wilderness with only ten acres of cleared land. Pine trees one hundred or more feet high were as close together as they could grow, and with the undergrowth almost prevented walking in the forest. Deer, wolves, panthers and other wild animals were plentiful and it was dangerous to go outside the house after nightfall. Mrs. Tyler was born June 29, 1811, and celebrated her ninetieth birthday on June 29, last. She has been confined to her room for two years past but keeps in touch with all that is going on. Her memory is as clear as it was fifty years ago, and she never loses her interest in her acquaintances and those whom she sees pass her home daily. She is an interesting lady to talk with and her fund of reminiscences is semingly inexhaustable. ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diana Tyler LiebeLeah@aol.com November 14, 2009, 11:27 pm The Daily Democrat, LockHaven, Clinton Co., PA Wednesday, August 13, 1902 WAS NEARLY 100 YEARS OLD. Death of a Clearfield County Lady Who Had Relatives Here Mrs. Isabella Tyler, an aunt of Mrs. Lyons Mussina, this city, died at her home at Tyler, Clearfield county, this morning. She was 97 years old. Mrs. Tyler’s maiden name was Mahaffey, and she was born in Lycoming county, near Williamsport. Her grandfather, John Clendennin, was one of George Washington’s body guards. She was married in 1830 to David Tyler, who was better known as ‘Squire Tyler, and who received his first commission as justice of the peace from Governor Ritner. Mrs. Tyler has a daughter, Mrs. Robert Packer, Bald Eagle township. She also has several nieces and nephews in this city as follows: Miss Jane Reed, T.B. Reed, Daniel Reed and Samuel Reed. ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diana Tyler LiebeLeah@aol.com November 14, 2009, 11:14 pm Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport, PA Mrs. Isabella Tyler. The Remarkable Life of This Aged Lady, Who recently Passed Away at Tyler, Clearfield County, Pa. A remarkable life closed when Mrs. Isabella Tyler passed away on August 13, 1902, at Tyler, Clearfield county, Pa., aged 91 years. On January 31, 1830, she was married to David Tyler in Northumberland county. They began their home at Trout Run, Pa., where they lived until 1848, and where their ten children, two of them twins, were born. John DuBois was lumbering near there, and at his instance Mr. Tyler, in 1848, moved to Bennet’s Branch to lumber, locating where the family afterwards lived, where fifteen acres had been cleared by Jonathan Nichols. Here, though her family was so large and the wilderness life so hard, Mother Tyler found time and opportunity to officiate as doctor and nurse to the pioneer people scattered up and down the valley. As the years passed she saw six of her children and her companion depart this life, Mr. Tyler dying in November, 1882. Then, in the later years, always industrious and home-making in her instincts, she was rarely seen abroad. Her mind and heart and hand were always busy at useful and productive effort. And her wonderfully vigorous and alert faculties were never weakened to the last. To within a few days of her departure, she evinced a clear and lively interest in affairs of the times and in the work going on on the great farm which had been her home for more than fifty years. From her window in the home-like brick mansion she watched with eager interest the men about their toil. Her memory was marvelously vigorous and accurate through all her long life. While by nature reticent, when occasion required she gave the correct facts in correction of misstatements made by those not correctly informed. Her health was extraordinary. Her life was never a pampered one, though she was fortunate in having the devoted love and care of her children. But whatever labors and hardships she passed through did not impair her splendid constitution. And at the last her physician, Dr. S. E. Hayes, stated that he found no trace whatever of any organic disease. On Sunday a slight functional derangement attacked her, and her great age prevented nature resisting. On Wednesday after several hours of coma, she peacefully ceased to live. Religiously, she was an adherent of the Presbyterian faith from early life. To Rev. A.B. Hooven she spoke of her full certainty of preparedness to depart and with calm confidence she had arranged everything for the obsequies. The funeral was at the home on Friday afternoon. Revs. David Caldwell, of Penfield, and J.V. Bell and A.B. Hooven of DuBois, spoke on her remarkable and exemplary life and the great lessons taught by it. Her choice of hymns, "I Would Not Live Alway" and "Nearer My God In Thee," were sung. The interment was in Hewitt cemetery, by the side of her life companion, and they are now at rest together the two who for more than half a century, journeyed through life hand in hand. By her request, five grandsons were pallbearers. The sixth journeying from Michigan missed his train at Buffalo and could not arrive until after the obsequies. A.H. ROSENKRANS. Penfield, Pa.