Obituaries A to D
A Althouse, Horace M.: 8/28/1940 Horace M. Althouse, 427 First Avenue, Parkesburg, passed away at 8:30 o’clock this morning, in the Coatesville Hospital, aged 36 years. He had been employed at the Lukens Steel...
Category: Chester County
Obituaries E to H
F Ford, Elizabeth [Webster[: 1997 Elizabeth W. “Libby” Ford, 83, of Strasburg Road, East Fallowfield, died at home Wednesday after a brief illness. She was the wife of James W. Ford, who died in...
Obituaries I to M
J Jefferis, Fannie Stacy [Hickman]: 5/1916 After a lingering illness, lasting several months, Fannie Stacy Hickman Jefferis, wife of Plummer E. Jefferis, passed away quietly at West Chester, aged 59 years. M McFarland, Mary...
Obituaries N to R
N Newlin, Margaret Rudd: 1/1/2005 Margaret Rudd Newlin, 79, of Secane, retired English professor and poet, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease Jan. 1 at Crosslands Retirement Community in Kennett Square. Dr. Newlin published...
Obituaries: S to V
S Sharpless, C. Brinton: 8/2001 C. Brinton Sharpless, 74, of West Chester, a former heavy-equipment operator, died of cancer Wednesday at his home. He had retired from the East Bradford Township road department about...
Obituaries: W to Z
W Wickersham, Elizbath M. [Worth}: 2/9/1909 At the home of her son-in-law, Joseph P. Leedom, on Dean street, this borough, Elizabeth M. Wickersham passed quietly away yesterday afternoon at the advanced age of nearly...
Autograph Book of Mary C. Reynolds
Mary C. Reynolds was the daughter of David M. and Amanda [Gregg] Reynolds. born in 1860 (or 1861) and died in 1887. She married George Matson in 1884. Though little is known about her...
Bonsall, E. Warner to David M. McFarland – 1930
Letter postmarked 10/7/1930 from Philadelphia, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. David M. Mcfarland, Rosedale ave., West Chester, Penna. Letterhead reads: 208 North Thirty-Fifth Street. The handwriting from this letter matches some of the entries...
Bonsall, T. Sterling to Family – 1850
In this letter, Sterling writes home to his family from Westtown school. He was about 15 years old at the time and writes the entire letter in one very large paragraph. West Town, 12 mo....
McFarland, David M. to Chas. T. McFarland – 1917
Though the letter is undated, the envelope is postmarked November 19, 1917 from Boston. David was at college and wrote on Beta Theta Pi letterhead. David was a student at MIT at the time. Sunday Dear...