The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
RECORD OF DEATHS.
Persons Well Known TO Many Of Our
Readers, Who Have Answered
Final Summons.
ALL SEASONS ARE THINE, 0 DEATH.
CUNNINGHAM.

Jehu G.. Cunningham at his resi-
dence in New Grenads, this coun
ty, q few minutes after midnight
IN the early morning of Monday,
January, 2, 1911. The funeral,
conducted by his pastor, Elder
G.. q. Bowersox OF the Church OF
God, took place at 10 o'clock,
Wednesday morning, and his
body was LAID to rest in the ceme'
terry at Bethel church.
Mr.. Cunningham was born IN
Tuscarora Valley, Pennsylvania,
on the 2Sth of August, 1928, and
was aged at the time OF his death,
so years, 4 months, and 5 days.
lie was a son of Joseph and Sarah
Cunningham, who emlgrated
from Ireland and settled in Tus
carora Valley, afterward remov-
ing to Shirleysburg, thence to a
farm near Maddensviile, thence
to the Barndollar farm near Wa.
tertall where DAVID Gladfelter
now resides, and from that farm,
with part of their children they
removed to Texas, where they
spent the remainder of their lives.
Five of their children, namely,
Huston, Joseph W., John E.,
Rachel wife of Lewis Bergstres-
ser, and Jehu renamed in Penn.
sylvania.
Jehu, the subject Of this no.
tice, was married to Charlotte
Clark, of Newburg, Huntingdon
county, Pa, June 5, 1850, and
happily and peacefully they jour.
neyed together as husband and
Swlfe for more than sixty years.
tTo this union were born 8 sons
land 3 daughters, all of whom are
living except Fannie who married
George Aller of Oklahoma, and
adled several years ago. The
widow, the other seven children,
70 grand children, and 8 great
grandchildren are surviving. The
names of the children surviving
pre-: Fleagle and Addison, mer-
chants, Englevale, Kansas; Min
ME, wife of Geo. W. Coulter who
IS ticket agent for the p. r. r. at
Edgewood Park, Pa, Duffield NJ,
real estate agent, and Alice A.,
stenographer, widow of the
>late Daniel K. McClaln, both re-
slding at Williamsburg, Pa; and
Newton G., merchant, and Law.
son L., insurance agent-at New
Grenada, Pa.
During the latter part of the
4O's Jehu Cunningham learned
the trade of blacksmlthlng with
hls uncle John E, Cunningham,
Who was then conducting a shop
p New Grenada, and from 1850
70 l9OO-ftty years, the putting
" the old leather bellows and the
sclear ringing claug of the anvil
told the story of the lite of one of
uIton county's most industrious
INC useful citizens. In 1900, he
lald down the hammer, dotted the
'eather apron, aud spent the re.
'alnder of his life in quiet re-
Prement from active labor.
For 5S years, he was member
~ Bethel Church of God. Being
man OF deep religious convic
non' ne was always a power for
pc right, and when he was con-
lnced that he was on the right
'oe Oh question, he stood firm,
ithout regard to it's beng the
opular side or not.
lie will be greatly missed by
Is church, his communitv, and
Post OF all oy the companion who
au shai ed his joys and sorrows
n T, more than three score years.
lie was we'll as usual until the
uufSday evening prior to his
"'n' lie sat down to supper
apparently the best of health.
uooenly he became UNCONSCIOUS,
y soon rallied, and was able to
aoout the house until Friday
niug' when he took his bed
'n what DR.. Campbell pronounc
Dad case of pneumonia. HIS
ieebled powers could not over.
As 'ne disease, and death came