The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
FUNERAL or
mn. CLIFFORD
Will Be Held in the Church
of the Immaculate
Conception.
ON FRIDAY MORNING
Death Messenger Takes a
Leading Business Citizen
Very Quickly.

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be held in the Church OF the Immacu-
late Conception at 10 o'clock Friday
morning with the Rev. P, H, McDel-
mott officiating. Burial Will be Ia
the Holy Cross cemetery.
Mr.. clifford died shortly after 8
o'clock Tuesday night in St Maya
hospital amer a brief illness caused
by a general breakdown and heart
and stomach trouble. He was taken
to the hospital Friday morning and
his condition was not regarded grave
until O'Clock Tuesday afternoon
when he began to sink rapidly.
Mr.. Clifford was son OF James and
Sarah tRuddy) Clifford. both now
dead. and was born in this city June
2i. 1871. He was therefore In his
forty-second year. He was educated
in the public schools here and at
Rock Hill College. After leaving
college, Mr. Clifford entered business
as superintendent Of the Pinnick-
innick Coal Company, in which post-
ton he continued six years.
In the year 1900 the Clifford Osborn
Undertaking Company was established
and incorporated, the firm succeeding
the pioneer concern in this line and
being now the largest establishments
of the kind here. Mr.. Clifford con-
tinued with this business to the time
Of his death. He was also director
of the Home Bank for Savings. and a.
prominent member Of the Democrats
party. tt,t
AS second lieutenant OF Company
l, Second West Virginia Volunteer
Infantry, Mr.. Clifford served all
through the Spanish-American war
under Captain NJ. G. sperry.
August 10, 1901, Mr., Clifford and
Miss Mary Tully, daughter of Mark
TulIy, OF Baltimore, Nd, we're mar
fed, Her father, now deceased, was
prominently engaged In the boot and
shoe business. He died at the age
of sixty years and her mother died
the same year. Mr.. Tully was a ma
tive of Ireland but he came to Amer
lea in his early youth.
Mr., Clifford was member of the
Church Of the Immaculate Conception
and one OF its most active workers.
occupying prominent position in
the government OF the church. He
was a member of the knights Of Coll
umbus and the Ancient Order OF HI
bernians as well as member of the
Elks lodge, which he served many
years as member of its charity COM
mittee. ilo-
AS business man he was highly
successful and as a citizen he was
loyal and ever ready to give his time.
efforts and money to promoting the
public welfare and his charity was
boundless. He was instrumental in
placing many an orphan child in
homes. He had friends by the hum
dreds and enjoyed the esteem of all
who knew him.
James Clifford, father OF John H.
was a son of Philip and Ann Clifford.
and was born in Mayo. Ireland. in
1927. He died here in 1892. He came
to America in 1S47 and located IN
Clarksburg in 1850. In 1888 he and
Miss Sarah Ruddy, daughter OF
Michael and Cecilia Rudy, natives OF
ireland, were married at GallItin.
Tenn. Mrs. Clifford, mother OF John
H.. died here December s. 1909. aged
80 years.
The father OF John H.. as we'll as the
mother, left valuable estates result
ing from their close application To
business and the exercise OF keen
judgment in making investments.
The parent Clifford FIRST became
employed on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, which was being built at
the time he moved to Clarksburg.
Afterwards he went into the mercan-
tile business at Bridgeport and in
1858 he came to clarksburg and es-
tablished general merchandise and
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