The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-04-29
The GRIM REAPER.
Short Sketches Of the Lives Of Per.
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
JACOB A. TRUAX.

county, Friday night, April 70,
1915, aged 60 years, II months,
and 16 days. The funeral took
place on Tuesday, services being
conducted by his pastor, Rev. G..
W. Sechrist assisted by Rev. j.
ID. Frum and Rev. G. F. Weise,
and interment was made in the
cemetery at the Rays Hill Luth-
eran church. The immediate
cause of his death was sciatic
rheumatism which affected the
muscles of'his heart, and death
came suddenly.
Mr.. Truax was a son of An
drew and Elizabeth Winters Tru-
ak, and was born near Dott, in
Bethel tawnship, this county.
He was married to Miss Jennie
Wilt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Wilt, of BreeZewood, who
survives the loss of a devoted
husband. Mr.. Truax is also sur
vived by two full brothers-Up-
ton, near Breezewood, and Simon,
residing at Peabody, Kansas.
There are living six half broth
ers and two half-sisters, namely,
Howard, Robert, and William,
Peabody, Kans. ; Clinton, Harry.
and Nellie, residing in California,
and Hayes and Mary, in Colora-
do. Mr.. Truax was a member of
the Lutheran church for thirty
years and a member of Breeze
wood Castle, No. 322, X. G. E.,
and altogether a most upright
and reliable citizen. He was a
miller by trade, and conducted
the mill at Emmaville for three
years, after which he purchased
the George Wilson farm near EN-
maville, where he remained seven
years, then removing to Breeze
wood, where he successfully con-
Quoted a temperance hotel.
JOHN A. ALEXANDER.
John A. Alexander, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
A. B. Stove Company and of the
A. B. Enameling and Foundry
Company of Battle Creek, Mich,
died in that city on Thursday,
April s, 1915. He had formerly
been connected with the Ameri-
can Stove Company of Cleveland
and st. Louis. He had just re-
turned from California where he
had been for three months on
account of illness.
Mr.. Alexander was born in
|Chambersburg in 1868, and hence
was AZ years of age. He is sur
vived by his wife, his father
VIM. Alexander, of Lehmaster,
Pa, and by three brothers and
three sisters, one of whom is Ma
/ ry A., wife of David Rinedollar,
near McConnellsburg.
Entering the stove business as
a young man, he acquired many
friends throughout the United
States and Canada, was one o1
the founders of the A. B. Stove
Company, and largely response
bic for the erection Of the plant
in Battle Creek.
Johns early school days were
spent in the Back Run school.
JOHN J. MCDONALD.
4 John j. Mcdonald died at hi'
home near Saluvia, April %, 1917
aged 46 years, a months, and
day. Funeral was held on the
following Sunday. Rev. E. j
Croft preached the funeral ser
mon in the Green Hill Presbyter
Ian church to a large audience
his text was Psalm 90:12. In
terment was made in the GENE
tery near by. The cause of hi
death was tuberculosis of tn,
lungs.
Mr. Mcdonald was twice mar
'led, the first time in 1894 to Cla
h. Davis. daughter of Chas
and Elizabeth Davis, and to thi
Union was born a daughter, Clari
VINO survives him. His secont
marriage was to Myrtle Aller
near Knobsville. He had on
iull brother David who died som
years ago. One sister, Louienoy
,,Ves somewhere in the West
Len alf.hrothera and sisters