OBIT: Mary Jane (MILLER) POPE, 1919, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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MRS. J. PORTER POPE.

  Mrs. Mary Jane Pope, widow of the late J. Porter Pope, died at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. F. Guiterrez, 418 Washington street, on 
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock after an illness since last fall with 
cancer of the liver.  Mrs. Pope was the daughter of William and Mary 
Miller and was born in Philadelphia on July 4, 1843, being aged at the 
time of her death 78 years, 8 months and 10 days.  She came to 
Huntingdon when fourteen years old and was married to J. Porter Pope on 
March 8, 1866, living all her married life in this place.  Her husband 
died less than two months ago.  Mrs. Pope was a member of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church.  She is survived by one son and one 
daughter, Mrs. Violet, wife of F. Guiterrez, and Samuel H. Pope, of 
Philadelphia, also by one brother, William T. Miller, of Altoona.  
Funeral services will be held from her late residence, 414 Second 
street, on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. G. 
S. Womer, with interment in Riverview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Friday Morning, March 14, 1919