The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-11-17
RECORD OF DEATHS.
Persons Well Known to Many Of Oar
Readers, Who Have Answered
Final Summons.
ALL SEASONS ARE THINE, 0 DEATH.
SIPES.

day aged SO years, Z months, and
z days. His funeral, conducted
by Rev. w. NJ. Cline, of Fort Lit.
tleton and Rev. John M. Diehl,
of McConnellsburg, took place
Monday morning, and lnterment
WAS made at the cemetery at Eoe.
nezer church.
The deceased was a son Of the
late EN- manuel and Suttiah (Har.
rls) Slpes, and was born at Slpes
Mill, in Belfast township, April
), 1851. He learned the milling
business as he grew to manhood
IN his fathers mill, and when his
father sold the Sipes mill and
purchased the Scalp Level Mill
near Hustontown, Theophilus
stayed with his father, and be-
came the owner of the mill at his
fathers death. In 1887, he left
the mill and went to Hustontown
where he remained seven yeal s,
after which he returned to the
mill which he later sold to Samu.
el Price, tried farming awhile,
and then went down, bought the
old Deshong mill near Harrison
vile, put IN a full roller system,
and last Decem ber sold 1t, pur.
chased home in Harrisonville
and went into retirement.
MIR. Sipes was most excellent
citizen. and few men will be more
greatly missed from community
He was everybody's friend, and
everybody was his friend. In
1888, he was elected to the Office
of County Treasurer without OPP
position, and made a most faith
full officer. No man was ever
turned away from his mill with
out flour or feed-money or no
money-if there was a pound on
hand.
Besides his wife: who was Miss
Ray Akers, be is survived by the
following sisters, namely, Mrs.
Martha Palmer, of Slpes Mill;
Mrs. Anna Runvan and Mrs.
Suttiah Raynor, Fort Wayne,
Ind; and Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer,
Of Philadelphia.
BUCKLEY.
From the Shelby uowa) News, Nov /.
George A. Buckley was born at
Ft. Llttleton, Pa, February Is,
1847. He died at Shelby, Iowa,
October 20, 1910, at the age of 60
years, s months and 13 days.
He left Pennsylvania the fall of
1870, spending the winter in Lam
ark ILL.,, and came to Shelby in
the spring of 1871, where he has
since made his home.
Converted at the age of ten
years George Buckley lived a
consistent Christian life to the
time of his death. He united with
the Methodist Church at the time
of his conversion and has been an
active and useful mem Der of that
Church for more than a half GEN.
tury. He was one of the first
superintendents of the Methodist
Sunday School IN Shelby, and
has filled several POSITIONS on the
official hoard of the Church here.
He was gifted In prayer, and
loved the prayer meeting from
which he will be greatly missed.
A man of strong religious tenn
perament, once he was convinced
that anything was of God, he was
whole hearted and persistent IN
his devotion to that thing.
A little over two weeks ago |
met him greatly fahgued and
broken in strength by his return
journey from the fruitless search
for health. He knew perfectly
how the matter stood as regards
the swiftly drawing close OF his
earthly life. His resignation to
this orde ing Of his life was CON
plete. There were no words or
signs of regrets or complaints,
He spoke not OF his own malady
and weakness, but of the great
kindness that had been shown
hm by many who were utter
strangers to him, on his journey
home, And ] thought as l looked
upon his face and listened to hin