The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-07-04
THE DEATH RECORD.
MR.. PETER CONNER

At his home in Oakland, on Thursday
evening at 7:45, Peter Conner died from
the effects of a rose cancer. He was
buried in the Catholic cemetery, Satur-
day morning at nine o'clock, Father
Cornell conducting high mass and the
usual services. He is survived by
wife and two grandchildren. The age
of the deceased was about 80 years.
Mr.. Conner thought that the cancer
came from cut by razor upon'his lip,
made about two years ago. During
the last year he has suffered a great
deal from the affection, yet he appear
ed never to have complained. His in
finite faith in the power of his Church,
and of his Christ, seemed to make him
strong enough to bear the agony of the
last hours without complaining. He
was confined to the bed for only the
day and half preceding his death.
Father Connell administered the last
whole rites of the church at noon WED
nesday. The end was peaceful, and it
seemed like a release to him to be freed
from further torture from his affection.
Mr.. Conner was born in Ross Conner
County, Ireland, about so years ago.
He came to America when thirty years
of age. In Oakland, on November 90,
1868, he married Miss Julia Kieff. No
children survive him; but two children
are with them left from an adopted
daughter, Mrs. Ellen Rhone.
Mr.. THOMAS ROBERT WHITE.
| At 1915, on the morning of June 28th,
Mr.. Thomas R. White died at his home
| in Piedmont from catarrh of the stom-
ach. He was buried Sunday afternoon
in the Oakland Catholic cemetery,
Father Cornell conducting the cere-
mony. The deceased went to bed only
the Saturday before he died. He is
survived by two children by his first
wife Ignatius, and William, now in Oak
land, and by widow and three children
by his second marriage. The Fraternal
Order of Eagles of which the deceased
was member were represented at the
funeral services.
Mr.. White lived in Oakland for a
great many years. leaving here about
two years ago for Piedmont where he
has since made his home.
His first wife was Ruha Mattingly,
of GAINESVILLE, W. Va, whom he mar
riedin Mt. Lake Park in 1884; his second
wife was Miss Kate Shaffer, of Oakland
whom he welded at Oakland in 1899.
His second wife with her three children
will make her home in Piedmont
MR.. THEoPHILUs WILT.
Died at his home in Swanton, Mary
land, at an early hour Friday morning,
June 2lst, 1907, Mr.. Theophilus Wilt,
aged 10 years, three months and twelve
days
A strong constitution in a frame of
exceptional endurance, enabled Mr..
Wilt to survive for several years a
stroke of paralysis that left his prev
ously robust health in a precarious
state and was the primary cause of his
sudden and painless end while sleeping
in the carly morning. The subject of
this mention was son of the late John
Wilt and was born in the old family
homestead near the western bank of
Savage river, now occupied by the
tiourishing and extensive lumber plant
of Bond in Garrett county. Before
reaching the age of majority he obtain
ed employment with the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, then locating
its mammoth venture over the noun
tains and distractions apparently rising
as natures barriers against railway pos
sibilities, devoting to that service a life
long loyalty and when disabled by age
and infirmity, received from that cor
poration an annual stipend in recogni-
ton of services faithfully rendered.
Mr.. Wilt was law abiding citizen of
quiet temperament with strictly regu-
lated habits and lived in peaceful rela-
tons with all of his fellows. He leaves
a widow, four children, a sistor and an
unusual lineage of grand children,
great-grand children and remote rela-
tives.
The funeral services We're conducted
Sunday morning, June 23rd, by the Rev.
DR.. johnson in the Swanton U. B.
church, after which services the burial
followed at Wilson'S Store in the time
beloved city of the silent where, under
the bloom of the summers flower and
the beat of the winters gale, repose
many revered and remembered no less
honored type of the frontier axman in
our western forest than upright fathers
of an olden time.