OBIT: Henry GEISTWHITE, 1891, formerly of Centre County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  For the following we are indebted to the Daily Herald of yesterday's 
edition:  Henry Geistwhite, formerly of Centre Hall and for the past 
three weeks a resident of Tyrone, died at half-past 11 o'clock this 
morning at the home of his son-in-law, Theodore Steele, on Cottage 
avenue.  Last Sunday evening, Mr. Geistwhite was taken ill with the 
grip, but his illness was not considered serious either by himself or 
friends at the time.  He was not confined to the house.  Yesterday 
afternoon he was on his way home when illness suddenly seized him and 
he fell at the corner of Main and Clearfield streets.  He was carried 
into the home of Samuel Heister, where he revived and was subsequently 
carried home.  Last night he felt much better and this morning he was 
out doors for a short time.  About fifteen minutes past 11 o'clock his 
condition again became worse and he was assisted upstairs to bed.  The 
disease had attacked the heart, and with unexpected suddenness the end 
came.  Only fifteen minutes after he went up stairs he breathed his 
last.
  The deceased was born sixty-nine years ago in Huntingdon county.  
About 1842 he was united in marriage at Lewistown, with Miss Margaret 
E. Foltz.  After a residence of some years at Lewistown, he removed to 
Centre Hall, where for nearly forty years he had made his home, engaged 
in that vicinity in farming and laboring.  Three weeks ago he came to 
Tyrone to work with his son-in-law, Theodore Steele, contractor in 
masonry.  Not feeling very well, he had only worked a few days since he 
came to this place.  Mr. Geistwhite was the father of twelve children, 
eight of whom, with his aged wife, survive him.  The children are: 
Samuel Geistwhite, Mrs. J. M. Lieb and Miss Fannie Geistwhite, of 
Bellefonte, Mrs. Theodore Steele, of Tyrone; Mrs. James Worrell, Mrs. 
Mary Lyons and Miss Amelia Geistwhite, of Centre Hall, and Mrs. Roland 
Gingrich, of Spruce Creek.  The funeral arrangements have not yet been 
perfected, but will be announced to-morrow.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, April 10, 1891

1880 Potter Township, Centre County census -
Henry Guisewite, 60  
Margaret Guisewite, 55  
Amelia L. Guisewite, 17, daughter
Fanney S. Guisewite, 14, daughter
Elsie Austin, 1, granddaughter  
Elizabeth Page, 11, daughter

Spelled Geiswite in the 1870 census.