OBIT: Josephine M. (STONEBRAKER) CHANEY, 1930, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ AGED WARRIORS MARK VALLEY RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Josephine M. Chaney, oldest resident of Warriors Mark valley died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annie States of near Warriors Mark, at 2:30 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon. Interment was made at Huntingdon on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Chaney was born at Colerain, April 6, 1837, a daughter of John and Hannah Stonebraker and on June 6, 1855, was united in marriage with Alfred Chaney, who died in 1902 in Pittsburgh. Following the death of her husband she resided among her children. Surviving are six daughters and one son, Mrs. Mollie Coulson and Mrs. Jeanette Walker of Bayfield, Colo., Mrs. Maude Johnstone of Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. Ella Carper of Eden Hill, Mrs. Annie States and Mrs. Tura Stevens of Warriors Mark, and Thomas M. Chaney of Pittsburgh. There are also eighteen grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren. Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, March 17, 1930 The late Mrs. J. M. Chaney, lovingly known as "Grandma" to the people of the Spruce Creek valley, was one of our oldest residents. She will be long remembered as a good wife and mother, a kind neighbor and a splendid Christian woman. Born at Colerain Forge in 1837, she was mentally alert and physically active until a few days before her death. Last fall, just after her 93rd birthday, she made a complete tour of Historic Indian Cave, where she had often played as a child. Many hours were spent in the cave by she and her playmates searching, as many others have done, for the buried gold bags of the bandit, David Lewis. Mrs. Chaney had a wealth of anecdotes to relate concerning this Robin Hood of Pennsylvania. Her stories of the escapades of Davie Lewis and his robber band when they ranged the valley and sought shelter in the Indian cave, were full of thrills, and were listened to with breathless interest. Today these stories lived again in the minds of relatives and friends as they toured the cave she had urged them to visit, and which she loved so well. On the wall of the Writing Room in the cave, her initials were carved 75 years ago, an eternal monument to remind us it is not in vain when "...the heart, the mind Persists in hoping - schemes and strives, That there may linger with our kind Some memory of our little lives." Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Saturday, March 15, 1930 1920 Warriors Mark Township, Huntingdon County census - Anna H. States, 57 R. Carl States, 23 Clifford W. States, 17 Josephine Chaney, 83