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| Obituary Index STOREY, Rebecca E. (Dixon) |
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| Johnstown Tribune, 08 Apr 1904, Page 3, Contributed by Sharon Trosan |
| Rebecca Ellen Dixon was born in Blairsville July 10,1827l was married there June 6, 1850 to William Sloane Storey, and died at noon yesterday at the residence of her son and daughter-in-law, Attorney and Mrs. H. W. Storey, No. 250 Main Street. The cause of her death as stated in the paper last evening was pneumonia from which she had been suffering five days. The deceased was a daughter of Thomas and June (Barclay) Dixon, deceased and was a sister of Jane, wife of Levi Young, of Indiana; Nancy R. widow of John A. Stitt of Blairsville; Sarah D., wife of James L. Shields also of Blairsville and parents of Harry A. Shields of Johnstown and Frank Dixon of Brown County, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Storey remained in Blairsville after their marriage until April 1860, when they located in Conemaugh, remaining there eighteen years, when they went to Hollidaysburg. In Jan 1882, they came to Johnstown, where Mr. Story died on August 4th of the same year, aged sixty-one years. He was a native of Westmoreland County and was the first Captain of the Cambria, a boat on the Pennsylvania and Ohio line on the Pennsylvania Canal. Besides her sisters and brothers, Mrs. Storey is survived by her son, Attorney H. W. Storey, intermarried with Abbie Douglass; a granddaughter, Miss Mary Douglass Storey, and three grandsons--Percy B., Harry W., and Douglass D. Storey, all at home. Frank Storey, a son of William Sloan Storey and Mrs. Rebecca Storey, died at Blairsville September 12, 1855 and his remains were interred there. The deceased was a member of Dr. Hill's Presbyterian Church at the time of her marriage, but in 1856, when Mr. Storey united with the Blairsville M. E. Church during the pastorate of the late James L. Deens, she transferred her membership to that church and in 1860 became a communicant of the Franklin Street congregation, this city, during the second pastorate of the late Daniel P. Mitchell. Besides being identified with the church, Mrs. Storey was a member of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, of which she was President at one time, and she was the second President of the Aid Society. She is the last of the charter members of the Cambria County Bible Society to pass abay. This organization was formed in the First Presbyterian Church in this city on March 27, 1882, since which time she had been its faithful Treasurer. She became a life member of the society ten years ago. Mrs. Storey was one of Johnstown's best women. The deceased's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Woodring, and the Rev. Dr. C. C. Hays, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will conduct the funeral services at the Storey residence at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening and the remains will be taken on Pacific Express Monday morning to Blairsville to be interred alongside those of her husband and son Frank. |
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