Hannah
(White) Wortman
(1864- ? )
Hannah M. (White) Wortman was born in Fayette County, PA in 1864, the daughter of Perry G. and Mariah (Minerd) White.
Hannah married Isaac T. Wortman (1861-1914). Their children were Anna Wortman and George Wortman.
In 1900, they lived on Yoder Street in Pittsburgh, where Isaac worked as a brakeman on the railroad. By 1910, they had moved to Berwick Street in the Hazelwood section of Pittsburgh and he was a railroad conductor for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Tragedy struck on Jan. 12, 1914, when Isaac was killed at work. The Pittsburgh Gazette Times carried the shocking news:
Fall Between Cars is Fatal
I.T. Wortman, aged 50, of No. 1 Berwick street, Hazelwood, was killed instantly when he fell between two cars while at work on the Monongahela Connecting Railroad at Hazelwood yesterday afternoon. Wortman was a conductor and was walking on the tops of some cars when he fell.
Hannah's sisters Annie Hopwood and Emily Goff went to Hazelwood to attend the funeral, held in the Wortman home. Later that year, Hannah moved to 4742 Chatsworth Avenue in Pittsburgh. Her fate after that is unknown.
They are mentioned in the 1912 book by John W. Jordan and James Hadden, Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette and Greene Counties.
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