The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-28

Henry kregor, aged ahout sixty years,
veteran Of the war, died very suddenly
at the Riverside Hotel, in Confluence,
las; Tuesday afternoon, 2)th inst. Mr..
lSreger arrived a, the hotel shortly be-
fore l. o'clock and Immediately after eat
ing dinner complained of feeling sick.
Dr. TaEaehill WIS summoned but before
he reached the hotel the sick man had
expired. Death resulted from heart fail
ure. Deceased was a life long resident of
Upper Turkeyfoot township and was
highly esteemed 10y his neighbors. His
wife died a number of years ago. He is
survived by number OF children, all of
whom reside in the west.
Gotleib Sweitzer, a well-known resi-
dent of Lower Turkeyfoot township,
died at his home in Harnedsville, on
Thursday, 221 inst, aged about sixty
years. He had been i'll for number of
years with disease that bafli ed the skill
of local physicians. The physicians who
had treated him were anxious to confirm
their diagnosis of his case and for that
reason they performed an autopsy
upon the body. The autopsy showed
that death resulted from cancer of the
liver, that organ being covered with ma
lignant cancerous growths. Deceased
was Swede by birth and came to this
county twenty-five years ago, when he
secured employment as a butcher for a
B. Il o. Railroad contractor near Ursina.
He married lady from Berlin, who with
several children survive.
Mrs. Harriet Ankeny died at her home
in Des Moines, Ia, on Easter Sunday,
April 18th, in the ninety seventh year of
her age.
1t was February Is, 1901, almost at the
dawn Of this century, that Harriet Susan
nah Giese first saw the light of day in
Berlin, SomerssI county, Pennsylvania.
Her father was Rev. Henry Giese, a ma
tive of Licbtenow, Westphalia, one of the
early and strong preachers of the German
Reformed church, whose name has an
hOnored place in the early church his
tory. Her mother was Anna Maria
Baker, born near Frederick. Maryland.
Mrs. Ankeny, however, lost her mother
when she was but six weeks of age and
she was adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. John
Fletcher, whose kindness to her was so
great that she ever held them in the same
affection as that given to her parents.
Mrs. Ankeny is the last of her family
of two brothers and four sisters. She be-
came the wife of Mr.. Ankeny on July %,
lS23. 1t was very happy marriage and
celebrated with the usual festivities of the
time, party of eighteen ladies and gen.
tlemen riding over from Somerset. nine
miles distant, on horseback, to attend.
The young couple went to the old An
keny homestead, in Somerset, To begin
their married life.
The old farm home was not abandoned
until 1881, when Mr.. and Mrs. Ankeny
moved TO Millersburg, o. Their four
sons were born in Pennsylvania and
their four daughters in Ohio, here the
family lived most happily until they re-
moved to Iowa and to Des Moines. Mrs.
Ankeny lost her husband in 1876. and il
has been chiefly upon her daughter, Miss
Harriet Ankeny, whose care for her
mother has been a first consideration al
ways rested.
Born on the threshold of the nineteenth
century, she lived under the administra-
tion of every president except that of
Washington, beginning in that of Adams
and closing her life in the initial stages
of the administration of President Me
Kinley. Having lived through the war
of 1872, the Seminole Indian war, the
war with Mexico and the great civil war,
she was imbued with a patriotism most
sturdy and intense. often remarking to her
children and grandchildren to be "al-
ways true to your God, your country and
your flag
The surviving children are: Mr.. Peter
Ankeny, the eldest, now II years of age;
Captain Ankeuy of Corning, Colonel
Ankeny, Mrs. J. X. Bancroft, Miss Hattie
Ankeny, of Des Moines, and Mrs. III. II.
Clark, OF Hartford. Conn, all of whom
were present at the bedside of their
mother when the end came.