OBIT: Rosanna (McCUNE) McKAY, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Mrs. Rosanna McKay Died of Paralysis

  At 10.10 a.m. yesterday Mrs. Rosanna McKay died of paralysis of the 
brain at the home of her son, John McKay, 1014 Sixth avenue.  She was 
born in County Down, Ireland, February 14, 1820.  Her maiden name was 
McCune.  In 1843 she married Charles McKay, who died thirty-six years 
ago.  She has been in America a little over fifty years and had resided 
in Altoona for twenty-five years.  She is survived by three children, 
John and Margaret, of this city, and Patrick, of Gallitzin.  She was a 
patient, Christian lady under all her suffering and belonged to St. 
Mark's Catholic church, where requiem mass will be celebrated on 
Saturday morning.  The funeral cortege will leave the house at 8.30 
a.m.  The burial will be in St. John's cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, July 13, 1899