Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Gill, Theresa Steel, 10 Mar 1902

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from The Pittsburgh Gazette dated Tuesday, March 11, 1902 (page 6):
 
Mrs Theresa STEEL GILL, wife of A J GILL, died yesterday at the family
home, No. 65 Wilson avenue, Allegheny, of asthma. Mrs GILL was born
in Norwich, Conn., in October 1835. In 1859 she married Mr GILL in
Philadelphia and three years later they moved to Pittsburgh and later
to their present home. Besides her husband Mrs GILL is survived by
six children: William S GILL of Washington, D C; Mrs R H CRAINE of
Evergreen; Mrs J F TICKNER, Miss Lou GILL, A J GILL Jr, and Mrs L H
DUNCAN, all of Allegheny. She was a prominent member of the
Observatory Hill Christian church.
 
 
from the Allegheny City Death Records:
 
Theresa M GILL, aged 66 years 5 months 4 days, married, died March 10,
1902, of bronchial asthma; daughter of Samuel and Rachael STEEL; born
in Norwich, CT; lived at 65 Miller Avenue; burial in Union Dale
Cemetery on March 12, 1902.
 
City directory (1902) confirms address as 65 Wilson Avenue, Allegheny.
 
Census records note that her parents were from New Jersey.
 
Husband's name was Alexander J and children are William, Julia (Mrs
Robert CRANE), Teresa (Mrs James F TICKNER), Louisa, Alexander, and
Rachel (Mrs Lewis Howard DUNCAN).