The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-06-27

Glen Russell, son of |. T.. ant
Hattie Ulsh died on June 18th an,
was inferred in the NIddleburs
Cemetry on the 18th, aged 6 months
and days.
Sarah, the widow of Henry Smith
of Adamsburg, died on Saturda,
evening. She had stroke of paral
ysis y'r ago and had been suffering
a great deal of late. The funeral tool
place on Tuesday afternoon. The
deceased was about 10 years of age.
John Schnee of Mt. Pleasant
Mills died on Saturday morning
after brief illness. lie was for
many years the proprietor of the
Mt. Pleasant Mills hotel, having
sold out in spring to his successor,
MIR. Hoover. He was genial and
pleasant bntlemen who enjoyed
the unbounded respect of his
many friends.
Mrs. solomon Kreeger, of Dan.
vile, formerly Miss Taggart, Nor
thumberland, and sister of Mrs.
Marks b. Priestly, of Des Moines.
Iowa, and Of Col. G. I. Taggart, of
Savannah, Georgia, died in Danville
on Thursday night after long and
painful illness. The remains were
brought 10 Northumberland for in
terment Saturday. The services
were held at her late residence in
Danville. Mrs. Kreeger's husband
is o brother to A. Kreeger of Swine
ford The deceased is well known
in this place having spent several
summyrs hsr.., ceutly.
Isaac Longacre, who is better
known and perhaps knows more
people in central Pennsylvania than
any other man, fell over dead after
eating his supper last Thursday
evening. He was an auctioneer
and diligently followed his calling
up the day of his death. On last
Wednesday he cried sale at Sun.
bury and spoke to the writer twenty
four hours previous to the death.
About five week ago while Mr.
Longacre was conducting sale in
Sunbury he fell from the box upon
which he was standing. He was
picked up for dead, but after several
minutes he revived again and mount
ed the box and finished the sale. The
The deceased was possessed with a
fine physical constitution, but he
finally succumbed at the age of 50
years.
PETER s. AUCKER, of Union town
ship, died Friday evening, of cancer
of the face from which he had been
afflicted for twenty years. He was
a son of Emanuel and Hannah
(Snyder) Aucker. He was born in
Perry township, Union county,
July 81, 1884, and at the time of his
death was aged 60 years, 10 months
and II days. He was married to
Catherine, daughter of the late
John c., & Catherine Meyer of the
vicinity of Freeburg who, with three
sons, survives him. The interment
was made at Keiser's church on
Tuesday where also the funeral
services were held. His pastor,
Rev. w. A. Haas, preached an i'm
pressive sermon based upon Psalm
XLIII:5. Why art thou cast down,
O my soul! And why art thou
disquieted within ne? Hope in
God, for l shall yet praise him, who
is the Health of my countenance,
and my God" --Courier.
John Datesman, one of the oldest
merchants in Union County, died at
his home at West Milton, Friday,
aged S5 years. Hewas born in Nor
Hampton County in 1919 and moved
to Fennersville, Monroe County, in
1881, where he was appointed post
master.
At the conclusion of his term he
moved to West Milton and started
a general store, and was appointed
to postmaster in 1895. The latter
commission he held for fifty-eight
consecutive years, and, though a
staunch Republican, he was never
deposed until the beginning of the
present Cleveland Administration
He was the oldest postmaster living
in the United States both as to age
ard term of service, and his
| for his reappoint ment by a Repub-
lican President 1896.