The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-11
DEATH OF ISAIAH BOUCHER.
Was Nearly Eighty Years OId-LeavesI
Five Sons.

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Five Sons.
Isaiah Boucher died at his home,
about three miles south of Grants
vile, in Garrett county, on the 31st
of January, 1904, of an illness of sew
eral weeks. He would have reached
his s0th year in this month had he
been allowed to live a few days
longer. He had been slightly afflicted
with mild case of paralysis for sew
eral years, but it did not disable him
seriously in his active agricultural
pursuits in which he had been enga-
ged on the old Bruce Boucher farm
since about the year 1858. At that
time he became a citizen of Allegany,
now Garrett county. He came from
Somerset county, Pa. He was APP
propriately inferred by the side of his
wife in cemetery in Salisbury, Pa,
on the End day of February, in the
presence of a large assemblage of peo-
pie containing many of his life long
friends,
He was born in Milford township,
Somerset county, Pa, of very respec-
table parentage, on a farm. In his
early years he learned the tiRner and
gunsmith trades with Mr.. Phineas
Compton in Salisbury, Pa. He fol-
lowed these avocations for several
years. He then entered upon an ag-
ricultural life in which he died.
In 1913 he married the admired
Lucretia Compton. The union was
in every way suitable one, accom-
panied with happiness and affection
for forty-one years. The death of
this much esteemed lady came dis
tressingly on the last day of the year
1889, and was sorrowful event, not
only to the home circle but long ways
outside of it.
The deceased left five living chill
dren, all sons in full manhood Henry
s., merchant at Centerville, Som
erset county, Pa; Phineas c., far
ner and lumber manufacturer on the
old home farm; Samuel A, a promi-
nent physician at Barton, Nd;
Charles w, very successful dentist
at New Kensington, Pa, and Arthur
NJ, successful farmer at Barton, all
happily married and well situated.
Isaiah Boucher, although of deci-
ded political convictions, had no de-
sire for Office. The people of the
county elected him commissioner in
1915 and he was true to his trust.
There can be none who cannot say,
Garrett county has lost one of its
most prominent, useful and respecta-
BILE citizens in the death of Isaiah
Boucher. He was honest, upright,
fair and reliable in all his dealings :;
faithful and helping friend where
ever friendship was needed or de
seryed. He had a smooth and con-
sistent life, entirely free from enmi-
ties, contentious or stTifes. Hence his
friends were many and his enemies
rare none, it might be said GER
taihly none that ought to be in that
attitude. He possessed a genial,
friendly and open manner or nature ;
warm and kindly in his manners and
greetings, with a dislike for rude
ness and ill-behayour. Hence his
many warm friends. He had a bright
and perceptive mind, with sound
judgment; quite intelligent, especially
on practical questions. Something Of
a reader-a patron and reader of the
Baltimore american over forty years
He felt just pride in his five re-
spectacle and prosperous sons.
Finally, he was the last survivor Of
the early associates of the author of
Of this poor tribute to the memory of
a lifelong friend-with sorrows that
cannot cease. J. Is.
Cumberland, Md, Feb. 4, 1904