Obituary: Emma J. (Beal) Gadd

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EMMA J. GADD

    Mrs. Emma J. Gadd, aged 84 years, nine months and 28 days, died 
at the home of a neice, Mrs. Estella Poundstone, of New Salem, 
Monday morning, December 15, 1941, at 7 o'clock of complications.
    She was born at Searight the daughter of the late Samuel and 
Mary Gosnell Beal and was one of the oldest residents of New Salem.  
She joined the Redstone Christian Church 65 years ago and upon moving 
to Uniontown became a charter member of the Central Christian Church.  
She was the widow of the late Samuel E. Gadd.
    Surviving are two brothers, Brice G. Beal of New Salem, and 
Joseph Beal of Riverside, Cal., and a sister Mrs. Margaret M. Dearth 
of McCellandtown road. Three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Poundstone, 
Mrs. Florence Newcomer and Miss Anna Beal, and a brother, George Beal, 
preceded her in death.
    The body will be removed this morning at 9 o'clock from the 
Poundstone residence to the home of B.G. Beal in New Salem where 
friends will be received.  Funeral services will be held at the Beal 
home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Rev. A. J. McCloy will 
officiate, assisted by Rev. H. W. Kilgore.  Burial will follow in 
Salem View Cemetery, New Salem, under the direction of C. B. Dearth 
and Sons of New Salem.
    Six nephews, Emmett Beal, Howard Beal, Joseph Gadd, Kenneth Gadd, 
Arthur Newcomer and Randolph Dearth, will serve as pallbearers.