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Cemetery, Spangler, where they had resided for about 10 years. Mr. Walsh was a very industrious man and worked up to within two days of his death. He and his wife were members of the Holy Cross Church at Spangler and were held in high esteem. To Mr. and Mrs. Walsh 10 children were born, as follows: Catherine McGill, resides at Bulah, Pa.; Ann McCaughlin, lives in California; Zita, a nun in the Order of St. Joseph, Erie, Pa.; Walter Welch, an attorney, lives in Clearfield County, served one term as district attorney of Cambria County; Lawrence, a miner, lives in Spangler; Margaret Collier, lives in Philadelphia, where her husband is employed as a mechanic; E. W., the subject of this sketch; and Mary A. McCombia, wife of a coal operator, lives in Spangler. The first child of Mr. and Mrs. Walsh a girl, died in infancy.
E. W. Walsh was reared in Houtsdale and attended a parochial school until he was 12 ½ years of age, when he began working in the coal mines, which were located four miles from his home, walking to work for three and one-half years. In 1889, at the age of 18, he came to Barnesboro and worked for the Spangler Coal Company loading coal for four months, and later was with the West Branch of the C. B. C. until 1916, where he served in every capacity except mine foreman. In 1913 Mr. Walsh, with one partner, established a coal mining company, which they conducted until 1918, when Mr. Walsh, with Louis Luxenberg, established the Economy Furniture Store. Their present building was built in 1920 and is 50x150, a three-story brick. The company handles high-grade furniture and the business is one of the successfully managed commercial ventures of the county. Mr. Walsh organized the Green Motor Company in 1920, which operated for three years, in Barnesboro and Johnstown.
On Jan. 22, 1902, Mr. Walsh was married at Holly Cross Church, Spangler, to Miss Margaret Carr, a native of Scotland, the daughter of Patrick and Ross Carr. Miss Carr came to America with her mother when she was 12 years of age. Patrick Carr died in Scotland and his widow died in Spangler, where she is buried. Mr. & Mrs. Walsh had one child, which died in infancy and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Spangler.
Mr. Walsh was a member of the committee which organized St. Edward's Catholic Church at Barnesboro. This church, which was built in 1925, was named after its pastor, Rev. John Edward O'Connor. Mr. Walsh has always taken a keen and active interest in civic affairs. He served for 15 ½ years as justice of the peace of Spangler and four years as presi-
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