James Stewart Dead
Attended Church Sunday and Expired at 1:40 Next Morning
James Stewart, a driver for the Cambria Iron Company, died suddenly at his home in Constable Hollow, Stonycreek Township, at 1:40 o'clock on Monday morning. Mr. Stewart attended services at the Moxham M. E. Church Sunday morning and in the evening he visited friends in the Seventeenth Ward. He went to bed at his usual hour for retiring and about 1:30 o'clock next morning his son, Ernest, was awakened by a peculiar noise made by his father in breathing. Ernest got up and went down stairs to get a glass of water for his father, who, when the son returned to his side was dead. Dr. Womer was sent for and stated that the cause of Mr. Stewart's death was the rupture of a blood vessel in the heart. James Stewart was born in Brighton, England, in March 1844 and came to this country and Johnstown in 1866. His parents are dead. he was a brother of Thomas Stewart, of the South Side; Harry, of Garfield street, Morrellville, and Mary, wife of James Botting, of Conemaugh Township, this county. The deceased was married in this city about twenty-four years ago to Urana, daughter of Henry Constable, who survives him with three sons and one daughter - Ernest, Maude, Norman and Chester. He is also survived by a step-daughter - Annie Owens-Stewart. The funeral took place from the deceased's late home at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, interment being made in Grand View Cemetery. Rev. Frank McGuire, pastor of the Moxham Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Stewart was a member, conducted the obsequies. |
