Daughter of John and Rachel (Mathias) Fox.
Tyrone Daily Herald, 12 October 1933:
"MISS MARY ETTA FOX DIED THIS MORNING
"Had Reached the Age of Nearly 101 Years.
"The life of Miss Mary Etta Fox passed out this morning at ten-thirty o'clock, just as quietly and peacefully as it had been lived the past one hundred years. Miss Fox, who had made her home with her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. G. Burkett Bailey at Washington avenue and First street for a number of years, became seriously ill last Saturday, with diseases that caused a general dissolution, her life slipping into the great eternal world at the above time mentioned.
Miss Mary Fox was born at Tyrone Forges on November 8, 1832, the daughter of John and Rachel Mathew Fox. Her entire life was spent in this vicinity. She was a charter member of the Sinking Valley Lutheran church where funeral services will be conduced on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. J.S. Colledge, pastor of the United Brethren church. Interment in the Lutheran cemetery in Sinking Valley.
Miss Fox was the last of eleven children born to John and Rachel Fox, early and respected settlers of the Tyrone Forges community. Her father, John Fox, was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at the forge where Mr. Mathias did an extensive business.
When a young girl, at the age of eight years, her parents bought a farm at the foot of the mountain in Sinking Valley, and moved there to make their future home. At Skelp, Miss Fox attended school, and assisted with the chores on the farm, a work that all young women in those days and today do, in order to help meet conditions on the farm. Miss Fox lived a quiet, home-loving life on the farm, finally leaving the active duties there, and moving into the hamlet of Skelp, where she resided until about sixteen years ago, when she came to make her home with her niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Burkett Bailey of West Washington avenue. Miss Fox's mother lived to the age of ninety-three years.
Mary Fox, in her one hundred years, saw newspapers come into existence in central Pennsylvania; she saw Eagleville incorporated as Tyrone borough in 1857; the first house built here on the corner of Juniata and Main streets, now Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; saw Pennsylvania avenue changed from a dirt to a plank or corduroy road to a solid brick highway; saw Altoona come into existence during her lifetime; the automobile, electricity, airplane, telephone, telegraph, phonograph, radio come into use; saw Connellsville along the Pleasant Valley road as the post office and business center for what is now known as Altoona; saw Blair county founded in 1846; saw the Star, Blade, Journal, Democrat and Herald and Times published in Tyrone; saw the first trains come into existence in Pennsylvania; saw matches come into use; saw the old lead works built and disappear at Irish Flats. She saw the canal service in operation and go out of use.
She was born during the administration of Andy Jackson, who was inaugurated president of the United States in 1829. She lived through the administrations of Van Buren, W. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, B. Harrison, Cleveland's second term, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and almost one year of Franklin Roosevelt's administration."
Tyrone Daily Herald, 12 October 1933:
"MISS MARY ETTA FOX DIED THIS MORNING
"Had Reached the Age of Nearly 101 Years.
"The life of Miss Mary Etta Fox passed out this morning at ten-thirty o'clock, just as quietly and peacefully as it had been lived the past one hundred years. Miss Fox, who had made her home with her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. G. Burkett Bailey at Washington avenue and First street for a number of years, became seriously ill last Saturday, with diseases that caused a general dissolution, her life slipping into the great eternal world at the above time mentioned.
Miss Mary Fox was born at Tyrone Forges on November 8, 1832, the daughter of John and Rachel Mathew Fox. Her entire life was spent in this vicinity. She was a charter member of the Sinking Valley Lutheran church where funeral services will be conduced on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. J.S. Colledge, pastor of the United Brethren church. Interment in the Lutheran cemetery in Sinking Valley.
Miss Fox was the last of eleven children born to John and Rachel Fox, early and respected settlers of the Tyrone Forges community. Her father, John Fox, was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at the forge where Mr. Mathias did an extensive business.
When a young girl, at the age of eight years, her parents bought a farm at the foot of the mountain in Sinking Valley, and moved there to make their future home. At Skelp, Miss Fox attended school, and assisted with the chores on the farm, a work that all young women in those days and today do, in order to help meet conditions on the farm. Miss Fox lived a quiet, home-loving life on the farm, finally leaving the active duties there, and moving into the hamlet of Skelp, where she resided until about sixteen years ago, when she came to make her home with her niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Burkett Bailey of West Washington avenue. Miss Fox's mother lived to the age of ninety-three years.
Mary Fox, in her one hundred years, saw newspapers come into existence in central Pennsylvania; she saw Eagleville incorporated as Tyrone borough in 1857; the first house built here on the corner of Juniata and Main streets, now Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; saw Pennsylvania avenue changed from a dirt to a plank or corduroy road to a solid brick highway; saw Altoona come into existence during her lifetime; the automobile, electricity, airplane, telephone, telegraph, phonograph, radio come into use; saw Connellsville along the Pleasant Valley road as the post office and business center for what is now known as Altoona; saw Blair county founded in 1846; saw the Star, Blade, Journal, Democrat and Herald and Times published in Tyrone; saw the first trains come into existence in Pennsylvania; saw matches come into use; saw the old lead works built and disappear at Irish Flats. She saw the canal service in operation and go out of use.
She was born during the administration of Andy Jackson, who was inaugurated president of the United States in 1829. She lived through the administrations of Van Buren, W. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, B. Harrison, Cleveland's second term, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and almost one year of Franklin Roosevelt's administration."
Daughter of John and Rachel (Mathias) Fox.
Tyrone Daily Herald, 12 October 1933:
"MISS MARY ETTA FOX DIED THIS MORNING
"Had Reached the Age of Nearly 101 Years.
"The life of Miss Mary Etta Fox passed out this morning at ten-thirty o'clock, just as quietly and peacefully as it had been lived the past one hundred years. Miss Fox, who had made her home with her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. G. Burkett Bailey at Washington avenue and First street for a number of years, became seriously ill last Saturday, with diseases that caused a general dissolution, her life slipping into the great eternal world at the above time mentioned.
Miss Mary Fox was born at Tyrone Forges on November 8, 1832, the daughter of John and Rachel Mathew Fox. Her entire life was spent in this vicinity. She was a charter member of the Sinking Valley Lutheran church where funeral services will be conduced on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. J.S. Colledge, pastor of the United Brethren church. Interment in the Lutheran cemetery in Sinking Valley.
Miss Fox was the last of eleven children born to John and Rachel Fox, early and respected settlers of the Tyrone Forges community. Her father, John Fox, was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at the forge where Mr. Mathias did an extensive business.
When a young girl, at the age of eight years, her parents bought a farm at the foot of the mountain in Sinking Valley, and moved there to make their future home. At Skelp, Miss Fox attended school, and assisted with the chores on the farm, a work that all young women in those days and today do, in order to help meet conditions on the farm. Miss Fox lived a quiet, home-loving life on the farm, finally leaving the active duties there, and moving into the hamlet of Skelp, where she resided until about sixteen years ago, when she came to make her home with her niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Burkett Bailey of West Washington avenue. Miss Fox's mother lived to the age of ninety-three years.
Mary Fox, in her one hundred years, saw newspapers come into existence in central Pennsylvania; she saw Eagleville incorporated as Tyrone borough in 1857; the first house built here on the corner of Juniata and Main streets, now Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; saw Pennsylvania avenue changed from a dirt to a plank or corduroy road to a solid brick highway; saw Altoona come into existence during her lifetime; the automobile, electricity, airplane, telephone, telegraph, phonograph, radio come into use; saw Connellsville along the Pleasant Valley road as the post office and business center for what is now known as Altoona; saw Blair county founded in 1846; saw the Star, Blade, Journal, Democrat and Herald and Times published in Tyrone; saw the first trains come into existence in Pennsylvania; saw matches come into use; saw the old lead works built and disappear at Irish Flats. She saw the canal service in operation and go out of use.
She was born during the administration of Andy Jackson, who was inaugurated president of the United States in 1829. She lived through the administrations of Van Buren, W. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, B. Harrison, Cleveland's second term, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and almost one year of Franklin Roosevelt's administration."
Tyrone Daily Herald, 12 October 1933:
"MISS MARY ETTA FOX DIED THIS MORNING
"Had Reached the Age of Nearly 101 Years.
"The life of Miss Mary Etta Fox passed out this morning at ten-thirty o'clock, just as quietly and peacefully as it had been lived the past one hundred years. Miss Fox, who had made her home with her nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. G. Burkett Bailey at Washington avenue and First street for a number of years, became seriously ill last Saturday, with diseases that caused a general dissolution, her life slipping into the great eternal world at the above time mentioned.
Miss Mary Fox was born at Tyrone Forges on November 8, 1832, the daughter of John and Rachel Mathew Fox. Her entire life was spent in this vicinity. She was a charter member of the Sinking Valley Lutheran church where funeral services will be conduced on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. J.S. Colledge, pastor of the United Brethren church. Interment in the Lutheran cemetery in Sinking Valley.
Miss Fox was the last of eleven children born to John and Rachel Fox, early and respected settlers of the Tyrone Forges community. Her father, John Fox, was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at the forge where Mr. Mathias did an extensive business.
When a young girl, at the age of eight years, her parents bought a farm at the foot of the mountain in Sinking Valley, and moved there to make their future home. At Skelp, Miss Fox attended school, and assisted with the chores on the farm, a work that all young women in those days and today do, in order to help meet conditions on the farm. Miss Fox lived a quiet, home-loving life on the farm, finally leaving the active duties there, and moving into the hamlet of Skelp, where she resided until about sixteen years ago, when she came to make her home with her niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Burkett Bailey of West Washington avenue. Miss Fox's mother lived to the age of ninety-three years.
Mary Fox, in her one hundred years, saw newspapers come into existence in central Pennsylvania; she saw Eagleville incorporated as Tyrone borough in 1857; the first house built here on the corner of Juniata and Main streets, now Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; saw Pennsylvania avenue changed from a dirt to a plank or corduroy road to a solid brick highway; saw Altoona come into existence during her lifetime; the automobile, electricity, airplane, telephone, telegraph, phonograph, radio come into use; saw Connellsville along the Pleasant Valley road as the post office and business center for what is now known as Altoona; saw Blair county founded in 1846; saw the Star, Blade, Journal, Democrat and Herald and Times published in Tyrone; saw the first trains come into existence in Pennsylvania; saw matches come into use; saw the old lead works built and disappear at Irish Flats. She saw the canal service in operation and go out of use.
She was born during the administration of Andy Jackson, who was inaugurated president of the United States in 1829. She lived through the administrations of Van Buren, W. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, B. Harrison, Cleveland's second term, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and almost one year of Franklin Roosevelt's administration."
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