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History of and Other Families (o_f) from
The City and County of Washington Pennsylvania
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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 Miss Christena Huffman 1881
aunt of Simeon H. Deems,
of West Pike Run
died in Carroll County, Ohio
1881
Article from The Daily Evening Reporter,
Washington Co., Pa., Fri., Mar. 18, 1881, page unknown:
Local Affairs -
ROBBING A GRAVE - Miss Christena Huffman, aunt of Simeon H. Deems,
of West Pike Run, this county, died very suddenly while at church, near
her home in Carrol [sic, one 'l'] county, Ohio, on the 2nd of January
last, and on the 4th was buried. The following night the grave was
opened, the coffin broken and the body carried off. The grave clothes
were stripped from the body and left in the broken coffin. A detective
was placed on the track and on the next night taking a sleigh followed
two men who were in a sled, and gaining rapidly upon them they threw the
body into the road. When the detective's horse reached the body he took
fright and overturned the sleigh, thus delaying the detective. During
this detention the grave robbers escaped. The detective placed the body
in his sleigh and returned it to the friends of the deceased who had it
reinterred [sic]. The affair created great excitement in the
neighborhood."
Obituaries
and Death Notices for People from or near McDonald PA
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