The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-21
RECORD OF DEATHS.
Short Sketches Of the Lives Of Per.
sons Who Have Recently
Passed Away.
PVT. C. Y. GROUSE.

PVT. y. I. CROUSE.
From the Lanark Qll.) |
Gazette of November 9th, we
learn of the death Of Charles
Yeakle Grouse, which occurred |
al Camp Travis, near San An
tonia, Tex. on the 28th of Octo-
ber. The deceased was a son Of
Jeremiah Washington Grouse, or
more famiiarly known to his
AYR township friends as Wash
Grouse, and his mother was
Catherine Yeakle, sister of
Jacob Yeakle of Thompson town
ship, and of Mrs. Clayton J.
Brewer, of Ayr township. The
parents now reside at Lanark,
III.
Charles was born at Winslow,
H., April 3, 1893. On the 25th
Of last May, he was inducted in
TO the service Of the United
States, sent to Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo-, and from there trans
ferred to the cavalry at Camp
Stanley. Later he was trans
ferred to the 54th Field Artillery
at Camp Travin. Private
Grouse was the first soldier f
Lanark and vicinity to be strick-
en- by death. He is survived by
his parents, four brothers and
five sisters.
MRS. AHIMAAZ TRUAX.
Annie E. Mellott TruaX,
widow of Ahimaaz Truax, died
at the residence of her daughter
Mrs. Anon M. Sipes l } mile
south of Saluvia on Tuesday,
November II, 1918 of a COM
plication of diseases, aged 60
years, Z months, and | day. The
deceased was a daughter of Jesse
and Mahala Mellott, near Sloan
M. E. church, and she was the
only surviving member OF a
family Of 6ve children. She
had been quite feeble for year
or more, growing more and more
weakly until the end came.
Mrs. Truax was identified with
the M. E. Church from early
girlhood. For a number of
years, she and her husband be-
longed to the Ebenezer M. f..
church. Two daughters sur
vive. Nettie, wife of Anon Slpes,
in whose home she died, and
Alice, wife of Hiram Shives,
near Big Cove Tannery.
The funeral services conducted
by her pastor Rev. E. j, Croft,
assisted by Rev. Lewis While OF
Blaine, Pa, took place Wednes'
day afternoon, and interment
was made at Ebenezer.
MRS. ORvILLE TAYLOR.
Mrs Murine Mock Taylor, wife
of Orville Taylor was born May
l6, 1883 and died at their home
at Saltillo, Pa, Wednesday, No
vember 10, 1918, aged % years
5 months and l3 days. She il
survived by her husband and b,
one child Olive three years old
Also by her aged mother, Mrs
Daniel Mock, of Knobsville, ant
by five sisters: Etiie, wife of II
0. While, Huntingdon; Alice
wife of Curtis Kelso, Altoona
Maye, wife of Jacob Glunt, Burn
Cabins; Maude, wife of Jane
Sipes, Harrisonville and Mary
wife of c. S. Keebaugh, Altoona
Also, by three brothers: Harry
Scott and Charles all of Altoona
The funeral services were cor
Quoted by Rev. Frownfelter, o
the M. e. Church, and intermen
was made at Saltillo.
MRS. AMBROSE BROWN.
Clara, wife of Ambrose Brown
died at their home near Clea
Ridge on Friday night, Noven
Der Is, 1918, after a short Hines
Of Spanish Influenza, aged abol
81 years. The funeral took plac
Sunday afternoon and intermer
was made at Clear Ridge. Tt
deceased was a daughter of M
and Mrs. William Brown, and b
sides her husband, she ia survive
by eight children all at home.
The annual Farmers Institute
will be held this year on the lS,