OBIT: Rebecca STEWART, 1890, Skelp, Blair County, PA

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FROM SINKING VALLEY
Death of Miss Rebecca Stewart.

  Miss Rebecca Stewart, of Skelp, this valley, died at her home on 
Monday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.  She had been a great sufferer 
for many months, so great that several times it was thought she could 
not live.  Her illness dates back to last winter, when she had an 
attack of the grip.  Never altogether recovering from its effects, she 
suffered from a complication of diseases, which at least assumed the 
form of dropsy, causing her death.  For several years she and her 
mother lived together in this ancient village, all the other members of 
the family having settled in homes of their own.  Besides an aged 
mother, several brothers and sisters are left to mourn the loss of 
their sister.  The are as follows: Mrs. Chaney, of Huntingdon; Mrs. 
McDonald, of Houtzdale; Joseph and William, of Webb City, Mo., Aaron 
and James of Pabody [sic], Kan.; Frank, of Dixon, Ill., and Harry, of 
Los Angeles, Cal.  She was a member of the Lutheran church, and as long 
as health permitted she attended the service regularly.  She was also 
an earnest worker in the Woman's Missionary society of the same church.  
Both organizations, as well as many friends and neighbors, will sustain 
a great loss.  She was 50 years and some months old.  The funeral took 
place at 2 o'clock on Wednesday.  Services were conducted by Rev. 
Oberholtzer, of Tyrone, the regular pastor being absent.  Interment in 
the Lutheran cemetery.  Thus within a week three souls have been called 
from our valley, representing childhood, womanhood and old age.  From 
this we learn three lessons - that we were born to die; that we know 
not the hour when our Lord cometh, and that is the part of wisdom as 
well as duty to prepare for the change that awaits all flesh.  On 
account of the distance from home none of the brothers were able to 
attend the funeral.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, October 30, 1890