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Mildred MaryBelle (1900-1967), mar. Victor Gates Russell Edmond (1904-1964), mar. Mary Gertrude Gibson Marjorie Maud (1907-1993), mar. Rex Ford Freda Adella (1909-1980), mar. Thomas Richards Standing: Freda, Russel, Mildred, Marjorie Seated: Walter Edmond and Edith Adella (Stoner) 
Mildred, Russel, Marjorie and Freda, 23 May 1955 Harlansburg Presbyterian Church in the background. 
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Walter and Adella On Wedding Day
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From the New Castle News, November 8, 1940:
"Mr. McClelland had been in business as a funeral director in Harlansburg for about 45 years. He was a past president of the Lawrence County Funeral Directors Association and was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association, the state association and the national association. He was born in New Castle on January 3, 1876, son of John and Melinda Cunningham McClelland. Mr. McClelland was well known and well liked in his community and in this vicinity and leaves a host of sorrowing friends. His wife, Adella Stoner McClelland, passed away about four years ago. He was a member of the Harlansburg Presbyterian church.
Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Victor Gates [Mildred] of New Springfield, O., Russell McClelland of New Castle, Mrs. Rex Ford [Marjorie] of Athens, Pa., Mrs. Thomas Richards [Freda] of Walmo; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Eakin of New Castle and Mrs. Russell Brockway of Greenville; three brothers, Floyd, Charles and William McClelland, all of New Castle, and 11 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Joseph S. Rice company chapel, East North Street, with Rev. Charles Bell in charge. Interment will be in Oak Park cemetery."
In his early days in Harlansburg, Walter also owned a grocery store located across Route 108 from what was then Kamerer's general store, formerly the Union House. It used to serve as an overnight stagecoach stop between Pittsburgh and Erie on the Perry Highway, Route 19. The building was probably built about the time of the Civil War. On the opposite corner was an inn which later became the Village Smorgasborg and then The Village Inn restaurant. Across the street on the other corner was a feed and flour mill. However, getting flour for the store was not always so convenient. In his early days Walter had to drive a horse and wagon to Kennedy's mill, two miles away on the Slipper Rock Creek, to get grain ground into flour for the store. Kennedy's mill burned down many years ago, but McConnell's Mill, a few miles down stream, is now a state park. Walter also had a beautiful horse-drawn hearse which was stored for many years in a neighbor's garage. The old red-brick garage where it was stored was originally a red-brick, one-room school house where Russel remembered going to first grade. Mae Book, a distant relative in the Book line remembered teaching Russel there. In the 1960's the owners of the garage gave the hearse to a small museum of old vehicles in Emlenton, PA.
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