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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 Mrs. John Myers 1887
died near a beloved spring
1887
Article from The Washington Weekly Reporter newspaper,
Washington Co., Pa., Sat., Aug. 27, 1887, p. 1:
Dead by the Fountain - Mrs. John Myers, of Bentleyville, was
buried on the 22nd. The
lady had been sick for sometime and toward the last she expressed a
desire to go to a certain spring near by, whose waters she fondly
loved. This her physician
forbid, as she could not be allowed to leave her bed or room.
She thirsted for that water, and to be by the side of that
bubbling fountain once more, she thought would bring healing to her
frail body, and the going there grew to be a mania, constant in her
thoughts and on her lips. On
Sunday, while her daughter, who was her nurse, was at dinner, the
invalid slipped quietly from the house and went to the spring - her
dream was fulfilled - she tasted of its waters, she sat by the banks
of the fountain - alas, it proved both Lethe and Nepenthe.
She was found dead by its side an hour later. - Monongahela
Republican.
Obituaries
and Death Notices for People from or near McDonald PA
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