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Note: 1887 - Marriage application at Tioga County Court House, Bk. 2 #297:
Kate, age 23, living in Arnot, school teacher, daughter of Mrs. Rachel Neal.
Howard A. Mitchell, age 33, living in Arnot, no parents, former wife died 6/27/1884, depot agent and telegraph operator
married in Arnot by Rev. D. D. Lindsley
1893 - March 29 - The Agitator - Wellsboro:
Mr. Howard Mitchell has resigned his position as station agent at Arnot. He has held the place for a long term of years
1897 - Kate and Howard were living in Blossburg when Kate's mother died in Aug., 1897.
1899 - Tioga County Directory - Bloss Twp.:
Katherine Mitchell, Arnot post office, clerk for J. L. Higgins, boards at 103 C Castle Garden
1900 - June 2 - census - Bloss Twp.:
Alfred R. Neal, b. Nov. 1848, age 51, single, locomotive engineer
Catherine Mitchell, sister, b. April 1868, age 32, married 14 years, 2 children born to her with 2 living
Louise Mitchell, niece, b. April 1888, age 12
Wesley Mitchell, nephew, b. Feb. 1895, age 5
1901 - Jan. 2 - Wed. - The Agitator - Wellsboro:
Death of Mrs. Howard A. Mitchell.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Howard A. Mitchell was held in Arnot on Thursday from the home of her brother, Mr. A. R. Neal, and was followed by burial in Liberty township, in the cemetery of the Evangelical Church near her old home in Jackson township, Lycoming, just across the county line. The officiating clergyman was Rev. Albert Brown, pastor of the Arnot Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Mitchell was a member. Mrs. Mitchell died in Arnot on December 24th, aged 38. She had been an invalid for six years. She underwent a surgical operation in the Medico Chi hospital in Philadelphia three years ago and was unable to rally from the ordeal. Mrs. Mitchell, whose maiden name was Katherine Neal, was a daughter of Mr. Daniel Neal, of Lycoming county, and was the youngest of his nine children. She graduated from the Mansfield Normal School in 1884 and two years later became the wife of Mr. Howard A. Mitchell, who survives her. He is now a resident of Armstrong county, but was at one time before his marriage a resident of Wellsboro, where he was employed as a telegrapher. Mrs. Mitchell was the mother of two surviving children - a daughter, Louise, aged 12, and a son, Wesley, aged six. She is survived also by six sisters and two brothers. They are Mrs. Richard H. Smith and Mrs. W. E. Champaign, both of Wellsboro; Mrs. James E. Huey, of Tyrone, N.Y.; Mrs. Ellis Parker, of Morris; Mrs. David Ellison and Mrs. William Lewis, both of Blossburg, and Messrs. Alba Neal, of Blossburg, and A. R. Neal, of Arnot. Mrs. Mitchell's two children will, for the present, be members of the family o f Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Smith.
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