The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-07-30
Recent Deaths.
SPARKS.

at Eagle Rock, Pa, after an Illness of
three weeks Of Typhoid fever. Deceased
was a son of w. T. Sparks, and besides
his parents Is survived by five brothers
and two sisters, Elmer, James, Emmett,
Harry, Carl, May and Rose Sparks, all of
Eagle Rock. The funeral was held Tues.
day afternoon at the family home, the
service being conducted by Rev. W. s.
Burton, Of Tionesta.
COLE.
Nelson Green Cole, son of Daniel and
Lucinda (Green) Cole, was born at Clin-
tonville, VenaDgo county, April q, 1913,
and died at his home near Nebraska,
July 20, 1913, aged IS years, 8 months 3
days, after a lingering illness with cancer
of the stomach.
When'the subject OF this notice wa one
year old his parents moved to what is
now known as Kellettville Forest county.
In 1871 he made his first pilot trip
down the Allegheny river, when yet
quite a young man. From this time on
he followed very successfully this avoca-
ton until river rafting of lumber was
succeeded by railroad transportation.
Politically Mr.. Cole was stsunch Re-
publican, and while health permitted
taking an active part in political affairs of
his township, state and nation, holding al
various times about all the offices of
trust In his community, and serving with
much credit to himself and credit to his
township In the office of road commits
sioner for eighteen years, and as school
director for SIX years. In 1897 he moved
with his family to the farm where he had
since resided, about a mile below the
village of Nebraska. In 1887 he was
united in marriage with Miss Emily j.
Allison of Nebraska, who with three
children, Ray. A., Beba L. and Anna l..
Cole, all Of Nebraska, survives, one son,
Arthur p, having died in infancy. Two
brothers, James w. of Marienville, Pa,
Clinton of Lancaster, Ohio, and one sister,
Elizabeth Lennox of Erie, and one grand
child, also survive.
For upward of q years the deceased
had been a member of Tionests Lodge,
1. o. o. F., which fraternity attended the
interment in a b ,dy aud conducted the
services at the grave.
The funeral WAS held at the late home
Of the deceased Monday afternoon at one
O'Clock, the services being conducted by
Rev. W. o. Calhoun of Linesville, Pa,
who paid a glowing tribute to the moral
worth and the honest, consistent life OF
Mr.. Cole, whose passing away is a heavy
loss to the community in which he had
spent upward of three score years.
KEPLER.
Jacob Musser Kepler, of Pine Grove
Mills, Center county, Pa, died at his
home near that village, Thursday after
noon, July "a, 1918.
j. M. Kepler was the third of five chill
dren of Jacob and Katherine Kepler, and
was born March 0, 1888, upon the farm
where he died. Until grown to manhood
his life was spent upin his fathers farm,
working in the summer, and attending
the public schools, and later the Pine
Grove Academy in the winter time. AT
ter leaving the Academy he, for some
years, taught school. But, being a man
of ambition and tremendous energy, he
gave up teaching to engage in more active
lines of endeavor, going to Phillipsburg,
Pa, in 1859, where he conducted a hotel,
and a store. and ran a daily stage line
from Phillipsburg to Curwensville. In
1871, he removed to Petroleum Center,
Venango county, where he devoted his
attention to producing oil, being inter-
ested also in properties at Tidioute,
Triumph and other oil region points.
He was attracted to Tionesta, and came
here in 1872, making this place his home
for 10 years. While living in Tionesls,
Mr.. Kepler acquired the Salmon Creek
Lumber Co. property at Kellettville,
which enterprise was carried on with
characteristic energy. In 1885 he built
the Kepler block at the corner of Bridge
and Elm streets in Tionests. Always a
Democrat of Incorporating conviction,
he was active in politics, and as an in
strument 10 his effort to make democracy
triumphant in his adopted county, he
launched the old Forest National Demo-
crat upon the troubled sea of journalism,
and published that vigorous party organ
until failing health induced him to dis
pose of all business interests in this COM
munity and return to the home of his
boyhood. He had purchased his fathers
old farm; also adjoining farms that had
originally been owned by kinsmen. II
was his ambition and pleasure to make
of this property an ideal estate. and the
800 or 400 acres of rich bottom land was
brought to a high state of fertility. To
this was added several hundred acres of
mountain forest land in which every
kind of wild game bird and animal
peculiar to present day Pennsylvania.
was found In abundance, making a splen-
did game preserve where he spent much
time in his favorite pastime OF hunting.
Amid these scenes OF his younger days,
he passed the last years of an active life
in ease and comfort directing the affairs
of his farm and living to the advanced
age of more than so years. Mr.. Kepler
was twice married and leaves five child
rem to survive him.
The funeral FROM his late home occurred
on Monday morning of this week.
HARRY.
Thomas p. Harry died from the mfr
mites of old age at his home near West
Hickory, Pa, July 2s, 1918. He had been