Individual Details

Mary Jane Cunningham

(26 Dec 1841 - 19 Jul 1927)

Events

Birth	26 Dec 1841	Pennsylvania
Marriage	11 Feb 1869	James Morrow Tussey
Alt name	11 Feb 1869	Mary Jane Tussey
Census	1 Apr 1910	Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Census-shared	1920	(Robert Edwin Tussey) Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Death	19 Jul 1927	Sinking Valley Cemetery, Blair County, Pennsylvania

Families

Spouse	James Morrow Tussey (1836 - 1916)
Child	Robert Edwin Tussey (1870 - 1951)
Child	Mary Margaret Tussey (1872 - 1945)
Child	Anna C. Tussey (1877 - 1954)
Child	John Morrow Tussey (1880 - 1950)

Father	Robert Cunningham ( - )
Mother	Sara McGuire ( - )

Notes

Census

James M. Tussey household, on a farm free of mortgage. age 74 married 41 years, Has had 4 children all living. Mary J. wife age 68, Robert E. son, ge 39, is farm laborer on family farm., Annie C. daughter age 32, unemployed.

Census-shared

Robert E Tussey rents farm, age 49 married born Prnnsylvania parents Pennsylvania general farmer
Margaretta M wife age 36 born Pennsylvania parents born Pennsylvania
William G son age 4 months born Pennsylvania
Mary J mother age 78 born Pennsylvania

Death

Name: Mary Jane Tussey, [Mary Jane Cunningham] Eshaustion and cardiac failure, Senile, Gangrene left leg; doctor was J R Morrow
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1841; Place: Pennsylvania
Death Date: 19 Jul 1927; Place: Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Robert Cunningham, born Pennsylvania
Mother: Sara McGuire, born Pennsylvania
Spouse: James M Tussey
Certificate Number: 67098
Informant: Mrs M M Morrow of Altoona
Burial: 21 Jul 1927 Arch Springs

Funeral services for Mrs Mary Jane Tussey, who died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs Matthew M Morrow, 2426 West Chestnut avenue, Altoona, will be held in Sinking Valley Presbyterian church.
Mrs Tussey resided the greater part of her life in Sinking Valley and is survived by these children: R Edwin of Boalsburg; Mrs Morrow of this city; Mrs Charles L Wallace of Bellwood; and John M., of Oil city, these brothers ad sisters: Howard Cunningham and Fannie Cunningham, both of Alexandria; Mrs John Lauder of Union Furnace and Robert Cunningham, of La Moure, N D

Endnotes

1. Letter from Joanne Mason Soper (Las Vegas, NV) to Elizabeth L. Albright;, Tussey Family Genealogy, Joanne Mason Soper, July 1999, Las Vegas, NV, jmsoper@ibm.net.

2. 1910 US Census, Blair County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Tyrone twp, ED 89, family 33, line 36, page 163, James M Tussey, NARA microublication, roll 1318.

3. Letter from Joanne Mason Soper (Las Vegas, NV) to Elizabeth L. Albright;, Tussey Family Genealogy, Joanne Mason Soper, July 1999, Las Vegas, NV, jmsoper@ibm.net.

4. 1910 US Census, Blair County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Tyrone twp, ED 89, family 33, line 36, page 163, James M Tussey, NARA microublication, roll 1318.

5. 1910 US Census, Blair County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Tyrone twp, ED 89, family 33, line 36, page 163, James M Tussey, NARA microublication, roll 1318.

6. 1920 U.S. Census, Blair County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Tyrone, Enumeration District (ED) 124, sheet 6A, family 111, line 30, Robert E Tussey; NARA microfilm publication T625, 1540.

7. Letter from Joanne Mason Soper (Las Vegas, NV) to Elizabeth L. Albright;, Tussey Family Genealogy, Joanne Mason Soper, July 1999, Las Vegas, NV, jmsoper@ibm.net.

8. Find A Grave, Findagrave.com, database and digital images (http//:www.findagrave.com : viewed 20 June 2015), Memorial# 42392988.

9. Mary Jane Tussey obituary, The Daily News, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 20 January 1927, page 1.

10. Mary Jane Tussey, death certificate # 67098 (19 July 1927), Commpnwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health Bureau of Vital Stastistics, Ancestry.com.