Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Scott, Rebecca  March 24, 1885
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Blairsville Enterprise Fri, Apr 03, 1885
On Tuesday, March 24th, 1885, Miss Rebecca Scott departed this life in the
“communion of the catholic church; in the confidence of a certain faith; in the
comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope." She was the daughter of Wm.
Scott, postmaster at Cokeville, Westmoreland county, Pa. On Thursday, the 26th,
at 2 o'clock, the Burial Service was said over her in St. Peter's. church,
Blairsville, and her body committed to the ground in the cemetery upon the hill…
For five years past, Miss Scott had been a teacher in the public schools at
Cokeville. Her bent as a teacher had been evident from youth, and before the
conclusion of her course in the Blairsville High School, she was placed, through
the illness of the principal, in temporary charge of the school. Afterward she
taught in Cambria county and at Blairsville Intersection. In her work and in her
life she was noted for a high standard of duty and a conscientious adherence to
it in ways and at times that involved much of self-denial, and may, perhaps,
have been influential in shortening her life. Her strong will kept her constant
to this standard while the disease that finally sapped her life was gradually
weakening her powers of endurance. On the Tuesday but one week prior to her
death she was at her post in the school, and she returned that evening only to
enter the chamber of her last sickness. Her illness was short and severe. Now,
her pain and suffering over, "may she rest in peace." P. H. H. 

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