Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-19
OBITUARY.
.JoHy ScHwEIER

LIEU H u cioch "a, u duudiy ios
1876, aged 20 years, less l month.
He was great grandson of Nick
lsus Schweyer, who came to America
in the year 1852, and settled in Maxa
tommy township, Berks cousiy, Pa. A
son of Nicklaus- named George
Scbweyer, settled further up in the
same county, in Windsor township, ad-
joining the town of Hamburg. He was
the grandfather of the subject Of this
obituary notice. By one Of the hnan-
sial revolutions so peculiar to American
life almost the entire estate of his
grandfather, George, was swept away
This stroke of misfortune left the
fatber-also named George-of the
subject of this brief notice without
means.
When the war of 1912, between the
United States and Great Britain, broke
out, George Schweyer, last mentioned,
yielded to the military spirit of the
times and entered the U S. Army.
He never returned. His mother, re-
ceiving word that he lay wounded at
one of the frorher posts, along the
Canada line, and yet having pittance
of the old fortune left, journeyed to
the post designated, only to meet dis
appointment in not finding ber son.
George Schweyer's wife having died
previous to his going into the army his
four children were left without parental
support, excepting what they received
from their grandmother. She also soon
sickened and passed away, and then the
four children, two boys, John and
George, and two girls, Susan aud So
phia, drif;ed out into the wide world
without means or friends.
John Schweier-thst is the way he
misspelled his name-came to Juniata
county in the year 1920, where be lived
from that date to the date Of his death,
excepting a brief scjourn in the State
of Mary land, and in Cumberland coun-
| ty, this State. He learned the trade
of painting, and about the year 1881
settled in MIfiiintown, where he added
to that Of painting, that Of making
chairs and cabinet furniture. After
number of years be engaged largely
in the manufacture of furniture, and
annually shipped boat loads Of furni
ture to various points along the canals
of the Juniata aud Susquehanna rivers.
About twenty years since, on account
| Of declining health. he withdrew from
the business, to farm adjoining Milf
| fiintown, wLere he lived in quietness
to the day of his death.
He was born in Windsor township,
Berks county, Pa, on the l4th day of
February, 1906, aud died in Ferman-
agh township, adjacent to Mifflintown,
Juniata county, Pa, on the 18th day of
January, 1876, at l o'clock, p. NJ.
His remains we're buried in Union Gem
/ etery, south of Mifiiintown, OF the 17;h
day of January, 1876. He LEFT fam
| lily. living, consisting of wife, son,
dsughter-in- law, four grandchildren,
two of them sons, named respectively
Jehn +. and WiIberforce Schweyer,
| and two daughters, named respectively
Annie L. and Mary 4. Schweyer.
He was member of the Lutheran
Church, lived a life consistent with his
profession, and died like a man in the
full faith of the promises of the Chris
tian religion. Having family record
beyond his great grandfather, Nicklaus,
that extends through the revolutions
and counter revolutions of Europe
more than five hundred years, which,
if it we're possible to place in
the market as an article of Merchandise
among rich people, would bring prince
ly fortune; but lineal records are not
articles of merchandise the titles Of which
may be transferred, and If they we're, in
this case the gold of ChristendoG would
be insufficient to purchase. He was
always plain as becomes citizen of
the American Republic, and unassum-
ing iI tone and manner. as if he had
sprung from the humblest origin
Withou. iisparagement to men with
whose inner life We have no acquain-
tance, We believe that as to honesty
OF purpose, morality and religion, be
was the best man we ever knew.