OBIT:  VARNER, Mary (Mundy); E. Taylor Twp., Cambria Cnty., PA; 1910

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Volume 44, Number 30
Friday, 5 Aug 1910


Aged Cambria Lady is Called by Death

Mrs. Varner, Who died Monday, Witnessed Memorable Howser and Bowser Murder

Her Sister was Victim

Mrs. Mary Mundy Varner, wife of Zachariah Varner of East Taylor Township, 
passed away yesterday, aged 56 years, 10 months and 18 days.

Mrs. Varner became a Christian when a young girl, uniting with the United 
Evangelical Church of which she was a faithful and devoted worker.  
Besides her husband, she is survived by the following children:  Mrs. 
Charles Moose of East Conemaugh; C. C. Varner of Morrellville; and Norman, 
Clement, Stanford, Herman, Fannie, Catherine and Ralph, at home.  A 
brother and sister, Elias Mundy and Mrs. Fanny King of Jackson Township 
also survive.

The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with the 
interment in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery.

The deceased was a daughter of Martin Mundy, one of the pioneer residents 
of Jackson Township, where she was born.  Her parents have been dead for 
many years.

Mrs. Varner was a witness of the brutal murder many years ago near Wilmore 
of her sister, Miss Catharine Mundy and Polly Paul, a well known carpet 
weaver of that vicinity.  Two men named Howser and Bowser went to the Paul 
place on the pretext of purchasing a calf. While Polly Paul was leading a 
calf from the stable, the men sprang upon her and murdered her.  The two 
Mundy girls, who were there, and who heard the screams of the Paul woman, 
ran to her rescue but the men caught and murdered Catharine, Mrs. Varner 
escaping.