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 MISS CHRISTIANA M. CUNNINGHAM, who was the first to enter the Jefferson County Home for Aged Women, died at the home on Tuesday at 9:10 p.m. She was confined to her bed for two weeks and slept peacefully away. She was born at Wellsburg, W. Va., and was at her death probably the oldest resident of Steubenville or Jefferson county. She came of Ulster-Scottish ancestry her parents pioneer residents of the Panhandle district, being Cyrus and Jane McElroy Cunningham. She began a career of school teaching at the age of fifteen years and a few years later came to Jefferson county, where she taught schools in Brush Creek, Island Creek, Springfield and Wayne townships. For several years she was an instructor in penmanship and art at the Steubenville Female Seminary. Frank Brody an instructor at the Scranton, Pa., correspondence school is a nephew. Three sisters survive her, Mrs. Ada Counselman of Bethany; Mrs. Ella Vermillion at Smithfield and Miss Kate Cunningham in an old ladies' home at Delaware, Ohio. Miss Cunningham was a member of the Presbyterian church. She will be missed at the home where she had endeared herself to the other elderly women who associated with her daily. The Steubenville Herald Star, Wednesday, April 26, 1933  Return to the Obituary Index
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