Born in Keating Summit, Potter County, Pennsylvania, on August 26, 1886, Linnie Agnes MacDonald was the first of nine known children of Bertha (Glover) and Angus MacDonald. Linnie attended normal school and taught in Potter County schools for several years. She married Patrick F. McAllister a railroad machinist in Austin, Pennsylvania, and the couple moved immediately to Olean, New York, where Patrick worked in the Pennsylvania Railroad car shops. When that facility closed, Patrick and Linnie moved their family of four children to Hornell, and Patrick oversaw the night Roundhouse crew of the Erie Railroad. St. Ann's Church and School were centers of the family's life in the Maple City. After her husband died in 1949, Linnie continued to live at 30 Center St. in Hornell until the mid-1950's when she moved to live with a daughter in Cuba, New York. Linnie MacDonald McAllister died in June 1972 in Cuba; her funeral mass was held in St. Ann's Church in Hornell. Getting news of her death to Pennsylvania relatives and their travel to the funeral in Hornell was made difficult and memorable due to damage and flooding along the Southern Tier caused by Hurricane Agnes.
Born in Keating Summit, Potter County, Pennsylvania, on August 26, 1886, Linnie Agnes MacDonald was the first of nine known children of Bertha (Glover) and Angus MacDonald. Linnie attended normal school and taught in Potter County schools for several years. She married Patrick F. McAllister a railroad machinist in Austin, Pennsylvania, and the couple moved immediately to Olean, New York, where Patrick worked in the Pennsylvania Railroad car shops. When that facility closed, Patrick and Linnie moved their family of four children to Hornell, and Patrick oversaw the night Roundhouse crew of the Erie Railroad. St. Ann's Church and School were centers of the family's life in the Maple City. After her husband died in 1949, Linnie continued to live at 30 Center St. in Hornell until the mid-1950's when she moved to live with a daughter in Cuba, New York. Linnie MacDonald McAllister died in June 1972 in Cuba; her funeral mass was held in St. Ann's Church in Hornell. Getting news of her death to Pennsylvania relatives and their travel to the funeral in Hornell was made difficult and memorable due to damage and flooding along the Southern Tier caused by Hurricane Agnes.
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