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History of and Other Families (o_f) from
The City and County of Washington Pennsylvania
Enhance your genealogy research about families in Little Washington, Washington County PA
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named), probates, deeds, surname finds, family trees, family histories, reunions and other information.
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Washington County Pennsylvania History and Families
Deaths and Obituaries of People with ties to Washington County PA
 
Pre-1900s Undertaker's Horse-drawn Wagon, and early 1900s
automobile hearses.
All McDonald Newspaper Items from Victoria Hospodar Valentine,
researcher and transcriber.
Unless noted, all other Newspaper Items from Judith
Florian, researcher, transcriber, webmaster.
Re-interments for body of J. H. Curry buried about 1875 and body of [unknown
name] Jamison
bodies of Jamison's wife and twelve other bodies removed were all re-interred in the cemetery at Rice's
Landing
1878 partial article
Article from The Observer newspaper,
Washington Co., Pa., June 7, 1878, page unknown:
[article's beginning was cut off...] "...was buried March 24th,
1874. Another body, that of J. H. Curry, which had been buried about
three years, was also petrified. The features of neither had changed,
especially Jamison's, whose [veins ?] showed prominently. The color of
the body was as natural as the day he was put in the ground. He was a
man that weighed 200 pounds and it took six men to remove the body from
the grave. His wife and twelve other bodies removed were all decomposed.
The remains of all were re-interred in the cemetery at Rice's Landing. -
[caps] Stutman [caps]."
Obituaries
and Death Notices for People from or near McDonald PA
This page was last edited Wednesday, September 06, 2023
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