Armstrong County PA Archives Obituaries.....Queen, Anna  October 12, 1863
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1860-1898: October 28, 1863
Died October 12th, at Queenstown, Armstrong Co., of diptheria, little Anna Queen,
aged 8 years. The subject of this notice was born in Chester County, Penna. Her
parents were members of Doe Run congregation, then under the pastoral care of the
Rev. Mr. Foster, by whom she was baptized. It is supposed that she connected herself
with that church, at an early age, under the ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Mitchel,
by whom she was married to Mr. Jordan. In September, 1801, the family removed to the
then far West, and after a wearisome journey of three weeks, arrived at Pittsburgh,
October 8th. An incident of that journey she often repeated to the writer, with much
emotion. As a friend, her heart was sad in bidding farewell to the home of her
childhood and youth, but the mother's heart was more sad in leaving the " old
graveyard" in which she had just deposited a precious treasure, a dearly beloved
child. On the way, her babe was violently attacked with a malignant disease. Early
in the afternoon they arrived at a public house, where they put up for the night, in
order to attend to the wants of the sick child. In the evening, the young people of
the neighborhood collected for a "ball." The dancers would not endure the presence
of the mother and children, and she was compelled to retire to the wagon, and seek
protection there for herself and little ones as best she could, from the damps of
the night and the cold bleak winds of Autumn. The night was cold and stormy. The
babe caught cold and died the next evening, and was buried at a place called "Burnt
Cabins," in Bedford County. The darkness of that hour none but a mother's heart can
know. They removed immediately to South Fayette Township, Allegheny County, where
they spent the winter in a little cabin on the farm of Mr. Alexander. In the
meantime having purchased a small farm, and built a cabin, they removed to it the
following Spring. Here they lived and died. For many years she worshiped in the
church of Bethel, seven miles distant, then under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr.
Woods, and at the organization of Bethany church became one of its original members,
in whose communion she lived until God called her to the Church triumphant. At the
time of her death, her descendants numbered 91, viz.: 9 children, 57 grandchildren,
31 great-grand-children. The writer's earliest acquaintance with her was in the
Summer of 1855.  Then all her faculties, mental and physical, were greatly impaired
but it was evident that in the prime of life she was a woman of great energy and
decision of character. In her latter days she seemed to live over again the scenes
of childhood and youth, to be a child, among strangers, longing and weeping to go
home to "mother."...



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