The relatives and friends of Miss Edythe May Chilcote, a highly respected young lady and a talented and popular school teacher of Huntingdon county, were shocked when it was announced that she had died in a Pittsburgh Hospital following an operation for appendicitis. She was aged about 26 years.
Miss Chilcote had left home seven weeks ago, on a visit to her brothers, Howard in Pittsburg, and Clarence in Wilmerding, during which time she and Howard had visited Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Toronto, Canada, and other points of interest. Shortly after returning to Pittsburgh she was stricken with appendicitis and was removed to a private room in the Homeopathic Hospital where she was placed under the care of special nurses and one of the best surgeons of the city, but all to no avail. The operation took place at 4 p.m. Wednesday and she died the following day at 12:45 p.m.
The remains were brought home on Friday, reaching Orbisonia about two o’clock on a special train, accompanied by her brothers Howard and Clarence, also Luden of Mount Union, who had gone to Pittsburgh on learning of his sister’s death. Miss Gertrude Briggs Assist Supt. of the South Side Hospital of Chicago, and a friend of the family, was also in the party.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Chilcote in Rockhill, and the home was totally inadequate to contain the large concourse of relatives and friends which filled the house, porches, lawn and pavements.
The services were in charge of her pastor, Rev. R.J. Knox of the M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. Geo. S. Womer of the M.E. Church of Mount Union, and Rev. Quinn of Trinity Episcopal Church of Rockhill. Excellent tributes were paid to the one who had been called by death, by each of these gentlemen in sympathetic and appropriate addresses. She had been a faithful member of the M.E. Church for eleven years. She leaves to mourn her departure her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Luden K. Chilcote of Mount Union, Howard of Pittsburgh, Clarence of Wilmerding, and Mrs. Ethel Bard at home, and many near and dear relatives.
Her Sunday-school class and her former pupils of the public schools marched to the Odd Fellow’s Cemetery where the interment took place.
The pall-bearers were Alfred, Arthur, Melvin, Ralph, Alvin and Orville Chilcote, all cousins of the deceased. Many and magnificent were the floral tributes from friends which gave expression to the esteem in which the young lady was held by all, as none knew her but to love her. Friends from a distance were her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. James Buchanan of Mill Creek, Miss Gertrude Briggs of Chicago, J.S. Harper and daughter, Mrs. J.A. Swan of Shade Gap, Mr. and Mrs. A.O. Chilcote, of Blairs Mills, and the Misses Zepha and Marguerite Von Lepel of Covinton, Ky. The obsequies were in charge of Undertaker Dunmire of Mt. Union.
The family desires to extend its sincere and heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so nobly and generously assisted and befriended them during their sad bereavement.
Miss Chilcote had left home seven weeks ago, on a visit to her brothers, Howard in Pittsburg, and Clarence in Wilmerding, during which time she and Howard had visited Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Toronto, Canada, and other points of interest. Shortly after returning to Pittsburgh she was stricken with appendicitis and was removed to a private room in the Homeopathic Hospital where she was placed under the care of special nurses and one of the best surgeons of the city, but all to no avail. The operation took place at 4 p.m. Wednesday and she died the following day at 12:45 p.m.
The remains were brought home on Friday, reaching Orbisonia about two o’clock on a special train, accompanied by her brothers Howard and Clarence, also Luden of Mount Union, who had gone to Pittsburgh on learning of his sister’s death. Miss Gertrude Briggs Assist Supt. of the South Side Hospital of Chicago, and a friend of the family, was also in the party.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Chilcote in Rockhill, and the home was totally inadequate to contain the large concourse of relatives and friends which filled the house, porches, lawn and pavements.
The services were in charge of her pastor, Rev. R.J. Knox of the M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. Geo. S. Womer of the M.E. Church of Mount Union, and Rev. Quinn of Trinity Episcopal Church of Rockhill. Excellent tributes were paid to the one who had been called by death, by each of these gentlemen in sympathetic and appropriate addresses. She had been a faithful member of the M.E. Church for eleven years. She leaves to mourn her departure her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Luden K. Chilcote of Mount Union, Howard of Pittsburgh, Clarence of Wilmerding, and Mrs. Ethel Bard at home, and many near and dear relatives.
Her Sunday-school class and her former pupils of the public schools marched to the Odd Fellow’s Cemetery where the interment took place.
The pall-bearers were Alfred, Arthur, Melvin, Ralph, Alvin and Orville Chilcote, all cousins of the deceased. Many and magnificent were the floral tributes from friends which gave expression to the esteem in which the young lady was held by all, as none knew her but to love her. Friends from a distance were her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. James Buchanan of Mill Creek, Miss Gertrude Briggs of Chicago, J.S. Harper and daughter, Mrs. J.A. Swan of Shade Gap, Mr. and Mrs. A.O. Chilcote, of Blairs Mills, and the Misses Zepha and Marguerite Von Lepel of Covinton, Ky. The obsequies were in charge of Undertaker Dunmire of Mt. Union.
The family desires to extend its sincere and heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so nobly and generously assisted and befriended them during their sad bereavement.
The relatives and friends of Miss Edythe May Chilcote, a highly respected young lady and a talented and popular school teacher of Huntingdon county, were shocked when it was announced that she had died in a Pittsburgh Hospital following an operation for appendicitis. She was aged about 26 years.
Miss Chilcote had left home seven weeks ago, on a visit to her brothers, Howard in Pittsburg, and Clarence in Wilmerding, during which time she and Howard had visited Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Toronto, Canada, and other points of interest. Shortly after returning to Pittsburgh she was stricken with appendicitis and was removed to a private room in the Homeopathic Hospital where she was placed under the care of special nurses and one of the best surgeons of the city, but all to no avail. The operation took place at 4 p.m. Wednesday and she died the following day at 12:45 p.m.
The remains were brought home on Friday, reaching Orbisonia about two o’clock on a special train, accompanied by her brothers Howard and Clarence, also Luden of Mount Union, who had gone to Pittsburgh on learning of his sister’s death. Miss Gertrude Briggs Assist Supt. of the South Side Hospital of Chicago, and a friend of the family, was also in the party.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Chilcote in Rockhill, and the home was totally inadequate to contain the large concourse of relatives and friends which filled the house, porches, lawn and pavements.
The services were in charge of her pastor, Rev. R.J. Knox of the M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. Geo. S. Womer of the M.E. Church of Mount Union, and Rev. Quinn of Trinity Episcopal Church of Rockhill. Excellent tributes were paid to the one who had been called by death, by each of these gentlemen in sympathetic and appropriate addresses. She had been a faithful member of the M.E. Church for eleven years. She leaves to mourn her departure her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Luden K. Chilcote of Mount Union, Howard of Pittsburgh, Clarence of Wilmerding, and Mrs. Ethel Bard at home, and many near and dear relatives.
Her Sunday-school class and her former pupils of the public schools marched to the Odd Fellow’s Cemetery where the interment took place.
The pall-bearers were Alfred, Arthur, Melvin, Ralph, Alvin and Orville Chilcote, all cousins of the deceased. Many and magnificent were the floral tributes from friends which gave expression to the esteem in which the young lady was held by all, as none knew her but to love her. Friends from a distance were her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. James Buchanan of Mill Creek, Miss Gertrude Briggs of Chicago, J.S. Harper and daughter, Mrs. J.A. Swan of Shade Gap, Mr. and Mrs. A.O. Chilcote, of Blairs Mills, and the Misses Zepha and Marguerite Von Lepel of Covinton, Ky. The obsequies were in charge of Undertaker Dunmire of Mt. Union.
The family desires to extend its sincere and heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so nobly and generously assisted and befriended them during their sad bereavement.
Miss Chilcote had left home seven weeks ago, on a visit to her brothers, Howard in Pittsburg, and Clarence in Wilmerding, during which time she and Howard had visited Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Toronto, Canada, and other points of interest. Shortly after returning to Pittsburgh she was stricken with appendicitis and was removed to a private room in the Homeopathic Hospital where she was placed under the care of special nurses and one of the best surgeons of the city, but all to no avail. The operation took place at 4 p.m. Wednesday and she died the following day at 12:45 p.m.
The remains were brought home on Friday, reaching Orbisonia about two o’clock on a special train, accompanied by her brothers Howard and Clarence, also Luden of Mount Union, who had gone to Pittsburgh on learning of his sister’s death. Miss Gertrude Briggs Assist Supt. of the South Side Hospital of Chicago, and a friend of the family, was also in the party.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Chilcote in Rockhill, and the home was totally inadequate to contain the large concourse of relatives and friends which filled the house, porches, lawn and pavements.
The services were in charge of her pastor, Rev. R.J. Knox of the M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. Geo. S. Womer of the M.E. Church of Mount Union, and Rev. Quinn of Trinity Episcopal Church of Rockhill. Excellent tributes were paid to the one who had been called by death, by each of these gentlemen in sympathetic and appropriate addresses. She had been a faithful member of the M.E. Church for eleven years. She leaves to mourn her departure her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Luden K. Chilcote of Mount Union, Howard of Pittsburgh, Clarence of Wilmerding, and Mrs. Ethel Bard at home, and many near and dear relatives.
Her Sunday-school class and her former pupils of the public schools marched to the Odd Fellow’s Cemetery where the interment took place.
The pall-bearers were Alfred, Arthur, Melvin, Ralph, Alvin and Orville Chilcote, all cousins of the deceased. Many and magnificent were the floral tributes from friends which gave expression to the esteem in which the young lady was held by all, as none knew her but to love her. Friends from a distance were her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. James Buchanan of Mill Creek, Miss Gertrude Briggs of Chicago, J.S. Harper and daughter, Mrs. J.A. Swan of Shade Gap, Mr. and Mrs. A.O. Chilcote, of Blairs Mills, and the Misses Zepha and Marguerite Von Lepel of Covinton, Ky. The obsequies were in charge of Undertaker Dunmire of Mt. Union.
The family desires to extend its sincere and heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so nobly and generously assisted and befriended them during their sad bereavement.
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