OBIT: Caroline M. (PEARRE) MONROE, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. CAROLINE M. MONROE

  At 1.45 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Caroline M. Monroe died at 
her home, 2503 West Chestnut avenue, of pneumonia.  The deceased was 
the wife of Rev. David S. Monroe, D.D., presiding elder of the Altoona 
district of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Her illness dated from 
Friday a week ago.  On that day she was making a call and sat in a cold 
parlor, with the result that she contracted a cold which developed into 
the disease which caused her death.
  Deceased was born December 3, 1853, in Frederick county, Md., being 
the daughter of Charles M. Pearre, who was an officer in the 
confederate army, being commander of the Texan Rangers.  In the year 
1852 she was married to Rev. D. S. Monroe, the ceremony taking place in 
Carroll county, Md.  Her life was that of a Christian.  She was ever 
doing good; was kind and charitable and esteemed by all who had the 
pleasure of her acquaintance.  She was a member of the First Methodist 
Episcopal church.  Besides her husband she leaves two sisters, Mrs. 
Laura Orndorff and Miss Frances Pearre, both residing in Westminster, 
Md.  She is also survived by one brother, whose home is in Texas.
  The body can be viewed this afternoon between the hours of 3 and 6 
o'clock.  The funeral services will be held this evening, commencing at 
7.30 o'clock.  They will be in charge of her pastor, Rev. Horace 
Lincoln Jacobs, who will be assisted by Revs. A. W. Guyer, of 
Duncansville, and G. M. Hoke, of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal 
church.  On Atlanta express Thursday morning the body will be taken to 
Baltimore, where the interment will be made in Mt. Olivet cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Wednesday, October 18, 1899