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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.
Obituary of Mrs. [unnamed] Hornish 1881
widow of the late Wm. Hornish
1881
Article from The Reporter newspaper, Washington Co., Pa.,
May 23, 1881, p. 1:
"FOUND DEAD. - Early on Sunday morning Mr. Berthel noticed
Mrs. Hornlsh, widow of the late Wm. Hornish, sitting, on a box on a box
on her porch in her night clothes. Mrs. Hornish lived on the opposite
side of the street from Mr. Berthel.
The latter called the attention of his wife to the matter and she went
over, and to her great surprise she found Mrs. Hornish dead.
Since the marriage of her other, daughters she had lived alone
with her youngest daughter, Nora. For a long time she had been suffering
with disease of the heart, and on Friday night she got up and went down
stairs accompanied by the daughter.
She told Nora that if she had occasion to get up another night it
was not necessary for her to get up also.
The mother had arisen from her bed, procured a lamp, which was
burning, went down stairs, placed the lamp on a table, and gone to the
pump where she procured a pitcher of fresh water.
On reaching the porch on her return it is apparent that she was
over taken with a sick spell, and sat down on the box leaning against
the wall, with one arm resting upon the pitcher, which was on the box by
her side. She evidently died
without a struggle. This is
supposed to have been between one and two o'clock.
The daughter thinks that she heard her mother make some noise but
was afraid to go down fearing she would scare her ___ another.
It is supposed that the excitement incident of going downstairs
and the exertion of pumping brought on the attack from which she died.
Drs. Grayson and Thompson held a post mortem examination, and ascertained that she died from natural causes.
Coroner C. V. Greer summoned the following jury of inquest: J. B.
Ruple, D. M. Donahoo, James B. Kennedy, S. C. Clark, L. M. Marsh, and
Wm. S. Parker, who rendered a verdict in accordance with the foregoing
facts. Mrs. Hornish was
fifty-six years of age, and had been in ill health for some years.
She was a sister of Mr. George Hiles, of Canonsburg, but had been
a resident with her husband of Washington for many years.
Of her four daughters, three are married, Mary to Mr. Converse,
of New York, Alice to Mr. Chapman, of Allegheny City and Margaret to Mr.
Lane.
Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Chapman arrived in Washington, on Monday
morning.
Obituaries
and Death Notices for People from or near McDonald PA
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