Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-12-14
DEATHS.

McDOUGALL-At Mercer, December
6, 1905 Mrs. Presly McDougall. form
erly of this county.
She was buried at Harmony church,
Mercer township.
SHIEVER-Lt her home in ConnoGue-
Messing township, December o, 1905,
Mrs. Elizabeth. widow of Andrew
Shiever, aged 81 years.
She was buried at Mt. Nebo, and is
survived by three sons and one daughter,
thirteen grandchildren and SIX great
grandchildren. She will be sadly miss
ed in the home from which she has
gone and by her friends.
ALLEN-At the q. P. Home for the
Aged in Williamsburg. December 8,
1905, Miss Ester Allen. formerly of
this county, aged 7S years.
BEATTY-Decem 0. 1905. infant
daughter of L. J. Beatty of First
Ward, Butler.
SCOTIA the home of her brother
in-law. Absolom Monks, in Middlesex
twp, Dec. 13, 1905, Mrs Elizabeth
Chantler Scott. aged SO years
EICHENAUER-At her HON in Jack
son township, December T. 1909,
Katharine Eichenauer, in Ler 6sth
year.
AvIS-December Z, 1905. infant
daughter of Blair Davis of Mercer st.
FORKER-At his home in Chicago,
December 4. 1905, William E. Forker,
native of Harrisville, aged Al years.
ATKINSON-Ath his home in Freeport.
December z, 1905, A. G. Atkinson.
PHIPPS AT his home in Franklin,
December TO- 1905, Major Robert j.
Phipps, aged 66 years
For many years Major Phipps was
prominent among the operators for oil
in this county, and made his home in
Butler. During the war he enlisted as
private in the Fourth Pennsylvania
cavalry in 1861, he rose rapidly through
the various grades to major and near
the close of the war was brevetted
lieutenant colonel upon the recon-
menda.ion of General Sheridan for gal
liant service in action. He took part IN
Sc engagements, including those par
ticipated in by the army of the Potomac
He was born in Clinton township,
Venango county, and spent the greater
part Of his life in that county. He
leaves wife and one son
N NEOLE -Ab Ills HOi1lC III olc'ie uAAAi
December o, 1905, John F. Negley,
aged 70 years.
He was born in E. E. Pittsburg and
was a son of Caspar Negley, whose
farm included what is now Highland
Park and reservoir. He leaves wife
and several children, one of whom is
Daniel F. Neglev of Jefferson twp.
SANKEY AT his home in Slippery
rock twp, Dec. 8, 1905, Thomas
Sankey, aged so years.
He leaves wife. nee Keister, two
sons and three daughters. He was an
excellent citizen and stood very high in
the estimation of his neighbors.
KELLY-At Mt. Clemens, Michigan,
Dec. IL, 1905, Mrs Nancy. wife of
John c. Kelly. aged G1 years.
Mrs. Kelly had been afflicted with
rheumatism for some time and had
zone to the famous health resort for re-
lief. She was the only daughter OF
Capt, Alex Gillespie, decd of Cranberry
twp. She ia survived by her husband,
two sons and four daughters-Alex and
Clarence, Mrs. Bole, Mrs. Cronenwett,
Mrs. Mccormick and Miss Marie.
McCLAFFERTY-At the home of her
son, Charles, in Pittsburg, December
12, 1905. Mrs. Charity McClafferty,
nee Bishop, In her 55th year.
EWING-At his home at Cochranton,
Pa, December II, 1905. Edgar Ewing,
father of Chas r. Ewing of Karns
City, aged rs yeras.
KEISTER-At her home in Prospect,
December 12, Mrs. Lavinia Keister,
aged SO years.
Obituary.
Miss Elizabeth Fletcher died last
Saturday evening at 8 o'clock at the
home of her sister, Mrs. j. Frank West,
in Harmony. after seven weeks illness
with typhoid fever, in the oath year OF
her life. She was inferred in the Mt.
Nebo cemetery at Whitestown after
services at Harmony and in the Mt.
Nebo Presbyterian church, of which she
was q member. The services were con-
Quoted by Revs. Hugh Leith and Geo.
Stewart The deceased was daughter
of w. J. and Mary Humphreys Fletcher,
of Whitestown. Besides her parents,
she leaves two sisters. Mrs. j. Frank
w est and Mrs. J. A. Herman.-News
JOHN HIPPLE MITCHELL
Hon. John Ripple Mitchell, Senator
in Congress from the State of Oregon,
died at his home in Portland. that
state on Friday last December 8, 1908.
in the 71st year of his age.
The fact that Senator Mitchell was
former citizen of Butler makes every
thing concerning him Of interest to our
people 1t was from this place he went
west. He was born in Washington
county, this state. in June 1885, but
came to Butler county with his
parents when quite young, about 1867
His father, John Nipple, purchased o
farm between Mount Chestnut and
Prospect, this county, and lived on
same until his death some years ago
Here his son John M. Nipple was raised,
and lived until he came to Butler. about
1856. He entered the law office OF
Samuel A. Purviance and John NJ.
Thompson as "a student, and was ad-
mitted to the Butler Bar on March 22d,
1858. Mr.. Pnrviance being elected to
Congress, and Mr.. Thompson soon
after, to the Legislature, left young
Nipple alone in charge of their Office,
an opportunity which he improved with
ability. He was regarded as young
lawyer of talent and eloquence and was
favorably known. But in 1860 he left
here for the west, settling in Portland,
Oregon, as his new home. He left a
wife from whom he was afterwards
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