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line Krise, Gertrude Krise, Grace Wharton, Vesta A. McDermott, Mary Luther, Catharine Luther, Jennie Adams, Margaret Adams, Josephine Nagle, Irene Warner, Mary Mulligan, Viola Mulligan, Alice Mulligan, Freda Mulligan. Josephine Conrad, Mary Baker, Margaret Smithbower, Clementine Smithbower, Loreta Smithbower, Jennie Slowey, Frances Yahner.
The Knights of St. George.
This society was organized about four years ago.
No list of this society has been furnished the compiler.
First Interment of An Adult in St. Augustine Cemetery.
Although some persons claim that one Christ King (that name occurs in the list of Revolutionary soldiers and also in that of the war of 1812), was the first adult to be interred in the cemetery at St. Augustine, the church records give precedence to Mrs. Ruth Krise.
Pontifical Mass at Opening of Diamond Jubilee of
St. Augustine's Parish, June 27.
Solemn Pontifical Mass celebrated by Rt. Rev. John J. McCort, Bishop of Altoona; Sermon by Rt. Rev. M's'g'r Martin Ryan, a former pastor of the parish, now of St. Brigid's, Pittsburgh; assistants, Rt. Rev. M's'g'r T. P. Smith, of Sacred Heart church, Altoona, Pa., Vicar General of the diocese, Rt. Rev. M's'g'r Wm. Kittell, of Holy Family church, Latrobe, Pa., Rev. Francis X. McCarthy, S. J., New York, Rev. Thomas R. Rea, of St. Pius church, McKeesport, Pa., Rev. G. B. Welch, of St. Joseph's, Portage, Pa., Rev. F. J. Corcoran, St. Patrick's, Spangler, Pa., Rev. Robert T. McCoy, born within the former bounds of the parish, now of Tewkesbury, Mass., Very Rev. B. M. Conley, of Holy Rosary church, Juniata, Pa., Chancellor of the diocese, Rev. Dr. P. M. Doyle, rector of St. Francis' College, Loretto, Pa., Masters of Ceremonies.
THE RELIGIOUS OF THE PARISH
It is with deep regret that the compiler, on account of the meagreness of the data at hand, is enabled only to give a brief and unsatisfactory outline of the lives of the noble women and men of the parish, who despising "the flattering prospects of the world," and the pleasure and vanities of this transitory life, have given their lives and all they had
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