Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-01-10
DEATHS.

1901, w D. Robinson, aged 80 years.
BOOK-At his home in Slipperyrock
township. January :, 1901, John Book,
aged 63 years.
MCCHESNEY-Jan. ), 1901. Dorothy,
infant daughter of Frank McChesney
of jefferson twp.
WILHELM AT the County Home, Jan.
;, 1901, John Wilhelm, III his 9lst
year formerly of jackson twp.
MASTER-At the home of her mother,
Mrs. J. G. Myers in Butler Jan 3,
1901. Mrs. c. l Master, aged 81 years.
WEBBER-At the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs Lutz, in Pittsburg, Jan. i,
1901, Mrs Philomena Webber, aged
II years.
ERVIN-At his home in Bradford, Pa,
Dec. %, 1900, Elmer Z. Erwin, aged 80
years He was a native of Fairview,
this county.
DUNTON-At the home of her sister,
Mrs, Raabe. in Canton, o, Jan. ),
1901 Mrs TIllie 5. Dunton
Mrs. Dunton was the youngest daugh-
ter of Mrs. c. c. Sullivan, of Butler,
and she had been in poor health for
some years.
WATT-At his home in Freeport, Pa,
December 2S, 1900, Mr.. Josiah c.
Watt, aged - years, months and 25
days.
Mir. Watt formerly lived in Butler.
Previous to that lie had lived in Buffalo
township He was man highly re-
spected by all who knew him and re-
garded as not only a good citizen but an
upright, moral man in all his ways
KAVANAUGH-At his home in Zelie-
nople Sunday, January 6, 1901, VIII
liam Kavauaugh. aged 80 years.
Mr Kavanaugh' 5 death was not un-
expected as he had been i'll with Bright 5
disease. for several months He leaves
wife, nee Mary Hardy, and seven
yoGng children He was the owner of
the Kavanaugh machine shops at Ielie-
nople and OF shops at WOodteld, Ohio.
The Zelienople shops have just been re-
built after their late distraction By fire.
The funeral was held Wednesday after
noon at Zelienople ami was conducted
by the Masons and odd Fellows Of both
which orders Mr.. Kavanaugh was a
member
MORRISON-At his home in Bellevue
Allegheny Co., Pa, Jan. t. 1901,
Hugh Morrison, in his 63d year,
After the Civil War, during which
| Col. Morrison was a member Of the
| "Roundhead' regiment he located III
Butler Co. and was elected County
| Treasurer. During the winter OF 1871,
1872 and 1878 he was reading clerk
in the House of Representatives AT
Harrisburg. In 1875 he removed
to Nansemond county, Va, where he
lived for ten years. He then came to
Pittsburg and with his brother, J. ".
Morrison, engaged in the Photographic
supply company business on Sixth
street At the time OF his death he was
president of zoe c1mpauy,
Funeral services were hsld mt his
home in BELLEVUE, Sunday and Mr..
| Morlisons remains were brought tt
Butler Monday morning and placed IL
| the SOryhside cemetery.
TURNER bis home on 5. McKear
| ST. Butler, Tuesday morninS, Jan. 5
1901, VIM p TuTper, Clerk Of Court:
| of Butler county, aged SIS years
Mr. Turner's death was caused by
cancer of the stomach He was an in
valid before he entered npon the duties
| of his Office and his death had been mo-
meniarily expected for several days be
| fore it occurred
William 2. Turner was the seventh
| of ten children of VIM. r. and Eliza
beth Campbell Turner and was born on
the homestead farm in Parker twp.
When the Civil war broke out he enlist
| ed in Co. G., 18th Pa. Vol Infantry anC
served with distinction. After the wal
he followed the oil business and operat-
ed extensively III Butler county.
In 1899 Mr. Turner received the Re
publican nomination for Clerk of Court:
| over a large field of candidates, wa:
elected and installed into Office on tht
first Monday of Jan 1900-just yea
and day before his death. For sever
al months past he had been unable tC
attend to his official duties, owing tC
his weakened physical condition and the
formotion of cataracts on his eyes
| During his absence from the Office the
| Court business was looked after by his
deputies, Mrs Thomas Turner, hi
daughter-inlaw, and Miss Bernice
| Meals
Mr.. Turner married Sarah Spence
who survives him. Their only child tC
reach majority was Thomas Turner
who died in Oct 1898 Of typhoid fever
leaving a young wife, nee Miss Nettit
Miller of Cambridge Springs, Pa, who
| since her husbands death has remained
with his parents
Mr.. Turner was a man universally
| liked wherever known. AS an ofticia
he was pleasant, accommodating anC
efficient He was a member of the
Methodist church and the Grand Army
of the Republic.
! The funeral services were held this
afternoon in the NJ E, church and the
remains placed in the north cemetery
Obituary Notes.
John c. Sims, Secy OF the Pennsyl