Emma C Minerd (Thurston)
Emma was born about July 1856 in
Fayette City, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Birth date Jul 1856
Birth place Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States
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Emma C. (Minerd) Thurston was born in 1857
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1900 United States Federal Census
Nov 1856
Birth place New York
She died on March 24th, 1919 in
Cemetery Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA. She was buried in 1919 in
Alverton Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Emma died on March 24, 1919 at home on Cemetery Avenue in Mt. Pleasant. She was just 63 years of age. Her son James was serving in France with the 110th Support Company, and likely did not get home for the funeral.
Charles and Emma are buried at Alverton Cemetery near Mt. Pleasant.
Rev Isaac Herschel Minerd
Isaac was born on March 13th, 1858 in
Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Rev. Isaac Herschel Minerd was born on March 13, 1858 at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA, the son of Eli and Mary Ann (Baer) Minerd.
He died due to a respiratory problem and/or pneumonia about June 3rd, 1919 at
7017 Susquehanna Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. He was buried at the
Saint Peters Lutheran Cemetery, Highland Park section, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Isaac died of pneumonia at their home at 7017 Susquehanna Street on June 3, 1919. He was laid to rest in the St. Peters Lutheran Cemetery near Highland Park, a section of Pittsburgh. His grave was not marked at the time, and remained so until 1992.
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Death date 2 Jun 1919
Death place Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Charles Marion Minerd
Charles was born on September 16th, 1862 in
Bridgeport, Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Birth date 16 Dec 1860
Birth place Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States
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1920 United States Federal Census
Birth date abt 1862
Birth place Pennsylvania
He died about November 14th, 1947 in
Race Street, Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA. He was buried at the
GreenLick Cemetery, Bullskin township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Tragically, Charles outlived his wife and three of their adult children.
Charles suffered badly from asthma in his later years, and was often confined to his bedroom where he was forced to inhale awful-smelling smoke to help clear his lungs. His grandchildren living with him at the home of his son Will on Race Street in Somerset remembered the smell of the fumes.
At age 86, Charles died of the lingering illness at Will's home in November 1947. His obituary was published in his old hometown newspaper, the Mount Pleasant Journal. He was buried beside his wife at Greenlick Cemetery.
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Mount Pleasant Journal
"Charles M. Minerd
Charles Marion Minerd, Aged 86(hard to read?) years, died Friday night at the home of his son, the Rev. William Minerd, of Race street, Somerset, after a lingering illness.
He is survived by two sons and a daughter: Rev. Minerd: Ralph, of Mount Pleasant, and Mrs. Richard Reese, of Standard."
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Death date 14 Nov 1947
Death place Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States
Martha Jane Minerd (Stairs)
Martha, known as Mattie, was born about November 6th, 1863 in
Bridgeport, Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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She died from a stroke about March 27th, 1931 in
North Diamond Street, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA. She was buried in
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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A year (after her husband's death), on March 27, 1931, Mattie died at home on North Diamond Street, having suffered a stroke. She was buried with her husband at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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Mrs. Martha J. Stairs
Mrs. Martha J. Stairs, aged 67 years, four months and 22 days, Widow of Lehman G. Stairs, died at 10:50 o'clock Friday night at her home on North Diamond street, after.....
William Osborne Minerd
William was born about November 15th, 1866 in
Bridgeport, Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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William Osborne Minerd was born on Nov. 15, 1866 at Bridgeport, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA, the son of Eli and Mary Ann (Baer) Minerd
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Birth date 9 Mar 1866
Birth place E Huntington, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States
He died in an accident or as a result of an injury, railroad accident, on January 3rd, 1906 in
Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. He was buried in
Alverton Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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On Jan. 3, 1906, the Connellsville Daily Courier carried this tragic story about his grisly death:
BRAKEMAN IS KILLED.
William O. Minerd Met With Fatal Accident
in the Local Yards at an Early Hour This Morning.
William Osborne Minerd of Bridgeport, but for the past seventeen years a Baltimore & Ohio flagman, was killed in the [Connellsville] yards at an early hour this morning. Chas. Rhomes, a yard employe came across lying along the tracks this morning. He was then in a dying condition and all that he could say to Rhomes was that he slipped. He was too weak to give an account of the accident. The hospital ambulance was hastily summoned, and he was removed to the hospital, but his injuries were fatal and he died shortly after arriving there. He was terribly cut and bruised. The unfortunate man is a son of Eli Minerd of Bridgeport. He was born in that town 37 years ago and began railroading at an early age, having worked on all the different branches of the road....
..... Further investigation, said the Greensburg Daily Tribune, showed William slipped on a tie while making a coupling, "and fell under the train, the wheels of four cars passing over him at the hip."
He is buried beside his parents at the Alverton Cemetery near Mt. Pleasant.
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At the age of 74, just after the start of the new year in 1906, Eli suffered the tragic and grisly death of his railroader son William, who was killed in a railroad accident in Connellsville. Eli had to travel to Connellsville and to endure the horrific task of identifying the mangled corpse. Compounding the horror was that the son had recently let his life insurance lapse. We cannot imagine the agony.
Marietta Minerd (Crosby)
Marietta, known as Mary, was born about 1870 in
Bridgeport, Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
1 She died on August 8th, 1912 in
Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA. She was buried at the
GreenLick Cemetery, Bullskin township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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In 1912, Marietta lay deathly ill in her Buckeye home, coughing violently. Her son recalled that "They said you could hear her out on the road." She passed away that August, though the specific date is not yet known. She was laid to rest at Greenlick Cemetery near Bridgeport.
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Death date 8 Aug 1912
Death place Huntington, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States
Margaret A “Maggie” Minerd
Margaret, known as Maggie, was born about March 9th, 1873 in
East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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born on March 9, 1873, the daughter of Eli and Mary Ann (Baer) Minerd.
She died due to a respiratory problem and/or pneumonia, diphtheria, on August 24th, 1876 in
East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA. She was buried in 1876 in
Alverton Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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- Sadly, little daughter Maggie came down with a deadly case of diphtheria in the summer of 1876. She passed away on Aug. 24, 1876.
She received a terse obituary in the local Mount Pleasant Dawn newspaper. simply reads: "Miner: On Monday the 21st of diphtheria infant daughter of Eli of Bridgeport."
Her tiny remains were laid to rest in what became the Minerd family plot at Alverton Cemetery west of Mt. Pleasant. A simple grave marker was placed there as a permanent memorial to her brief life.
Later, Maggie would be joined there in death by her parents and brother William.
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Death date 24 Aug 1876
Death place E Huntington, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States
Eli Minerd & Mary Ann Baer (Minerd) 
