OBITUARY :
MRS. SARAH BLACKBURN KIRK, widow of the late William Kirk of East St. Clair township, died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Charley Mowery, near Fishertown on Friday evening the 22 of Feb., of infirmities incident to old age, having recently passed her eighty-sixth birthday.
Mrs. Kirk was the daughter of Joseph Blackburn a once prominent resident of St. Clair township, and practically all of her long life was spent in the vicinity of her birth place.
In about 1851, she was married to William Kirk formerly of York Co. a teacher by profession and a potter by trade and who died at his home near Fishertown in 1891.
She was the mother of five children namely, Ellen intermarried with Charles W. Wolf, Annie intermarried with James A. Allen, Margaret intermarried with Gideon M. Mock, Henry C., intermarried with Florence Snowberger and Alex C., intermarried with Maria T. Moore; only two of these, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Mock survive their mother.
Of her father's family, the sole survivor now is her sister Mrs. Thomas Miller of Pleasantville.
Mrs. Kirk came from a highly respected family and had many excellent traits in her character to transmit to her children and her children's children to the fourth generation. She was a devoted wife and mother, an excellent neighbor and a consistent member of the Methodist church.
Her funeral services on Sunday afternoon, in the Lutheran church, were largely attended. These were conducted by Rev. Engler of the M. E. church of Schellsburg, and her remains were laid to rest by the graveside of her husband in the old Hoover graveyard; six of her grandsons bearing her body to its final rest.
Source : The Bedford Gazette Newspaper - Bedford, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania - Friday, March 1, 1918
MRS. SARAH BLACKBURN KIRK, widow of the late William Kirk of East St. Clair township, died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Charley Mowery, near Fishertown on Friday evening the 22 of Feb., of infirmities incident to old age, having recently passed her eighty-sixth birthday.
Mrs. Kirk was the daughter of Joseph Blackburn a once prominent resident of St. Clair township, and practically all of her long life was spent in the vicinity of her birth place.
In about 1851, she was married to William Kirk formerly of York Co. a teacher by profession and a potter by trade and who died at his home near Fishertown in 1891.
She was the mother of five children namely, Ellen intermarried with Charles W. Wolf, Annie intermarried with James A. Allen, Margaret intermarried with Gideon M. Mock, Henry C., intermarried with Florence Snowberger and Alex C., intermarried with Maria T. Moore; only two of these, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Mock survive their mother.
Of her father's family, the sole survivor now is her sister Mrs. Thomas Miller of Pleasantville.
Mrs. Kirk came from a highly respected family and had many excellent traits in her character to transmit to her children and her children's children to the fourth generation. She was a devoted wife and mother, an excellent neighbor and a consistent member of the Methodist church.
Her funeral services on Sunday afternoon, in the Lutheran church, were largely attended. These were conducted by Rev. Engler of the M. E. church of Schellsburg, and her remains were laid to rest by the graveside of her husband in the old Hoover graveyard; six of her grandsons bearing her body to its final rest.
Source : The Bedford Gazette Newspaper - Bedford, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania - Friday, March 1, 1918
OBITUARY :
MRS. SARAH BLACKBURN KIRK, widow of the late William Kirk of East St. Clair township, died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Charley Mowery, near Fishertown on Friday evening the 22 of Feb., of infirmities incident to old age, having recently passed her eighty-sixth birthday.
Mrs. Kirk was the daughter of Joseph Blackburn a once prominent resident of St. Clair township, and practically all of her long life was spent in the vicinity of her birth place.
In about 1851, she was married to William Kirk formerly of York Co. a teacher by profession and a potter by trade and who died at his home near Fishertown in 1891.
She was the mother of five children namely, Ellen intermarried with Charles W. Wolf, Annie intermarried with James A. Allen, Margaret intermarried with Gideon M. Mock, Henry C., intermarried with Florence Snowberger and Alex C., intermarried with Maria T. Moore; only two of these, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Mock survive their mother.
Of her father's family, the sole survivor now is her sister Mrs. Thomas Miller of Pleasantville.
Mrs. Kirk came from a highly respected family and had many excellent traits in her character to transmit to her children and her children's children to the fourth generation. She was a devoted wife and mother, an excellent neighbor and a consistent member of the Methodist church.
Her funeral services on Sunday afternoon, in the Lutheran church, were largely attended. These were conducted by Rev. Engler of the M. E. church of Schellsburg, and her remains were laid to rest by the graveside of her husband in the old Hoover graveyard; six of her grandsons bearing her body to its final rest.
Source : The Bedford Gazette Newspaper - Bedford, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania - Friday, March 1, 1918
MRS. SARAH BLACKBURN KIRK, widow of the late William Kirk of East St. Clair township, died at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. Charley Mowery, near Fishertown on Friday evening the 22 of Feb., of infirmities incident to old age, having recently passed her eighty-sixth birthday.
Mrs. Kirk was the daughter of Joseph Blackburn a once prominent resident of St. Clair township, and practically all of her long life was spent in the vicinity of her birth place.
In about 1851, she was married to William Kirk formerly of York Co. a teacher by profession and a potter by trade and who died at his home near Fishertown in 1891.
She was the mother of five children namely, Ellen intermarried with Charles W. Wolf, Annie intermarried with James A. Allen, Margaret intermarried with Gideon M. Mock, Henry C., intermarried with Florence Snowberger and Alex C., intermarried with Maria T. Moore; only two of these, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Mock survive their mother.
Of her father's family, the sole survivor now is her sister Mrs. Thomas Miller of Pleasantville.
Mrs. Kirk came from a highly respected family and had many excellent traits in her character to transmit to her children and her children's children to the fourth generation. She was a devoted wife and mother, an excellent neighbor and a consistent member of the Methodist church.
Her funeral services on Sunday afternoon, in the Lutheran church, were largely attended. These were conducted by Rev. Engler of the M. E. church of Schellsburg, and her remains were laid to rest by the graveside of her husband in the old Hoover graveyard; six of her grandsons bearing her body to its final rest.
Source : The Bedford Gazette Newspaper - Bedford, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania - Friday, March 1, 1918
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