OBIT: George W. STUCKEY, 1899, Rainsburg, Bedford County, PA

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George W. Stuckey    Bedford Gazette, 7/28/1899

George W. Stuckey, who died at his home in Rainsburg on Friday, was
born, on what was known for nearly a century as the Stuckey farm, now
owned by S. A. Cessna, of Rainsburg, on the twentieth of June, 1834.  Shortly
afterward, his father moved to Rainsburg, where he kept a public house for 
about ten years, afterward returning to the farm. He owned two properties in 
Rainsburg, which he sold about this time. It was here on this  farm that "Uncle 
Wash," as he was familiarly called, spent the younger and happier days of his 
life in that humble, yet profitable profession, farming.  During the period in 
which he lived in Rainsburg, he received a common school education. He lived 
with his father, until he thought it time to establish a home of his own. He 
married Miss Ellen Diehl, of Friend's Cove, to which union four children were 
born, as follows: Jane Biddle, of Beegleton; Sarah Fisher, of Mercersburg, who 
still survive, Rachel and Simon, who died in infancy.  Shortly after his 
marriage, he moved into the tenant house on his father's farm, which was 
finally taken off the old farm and deeded to him.  There he lived and followed 
farming until the spring of 1864, when he went to St. Louis Mo., where he 
remained until September of the same year,when he returned and on the twenty-
first of September, 1864, enlisted in Company F, 107th regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, under the command of John A. Tompkins, captain.  His company joined 
the Army of the Potomac. He was a gallant soldier, always at the front and 
never seemed to fear the danger of warfare. He took part in several hard-fought 
battles, and came out uninjured. He lay in one of the southern hospitals for a 
while, suffering from eczema. He was discharged in June, 1865, near Washington, 
D. C.  He came home, and soon afterward his wife died. This left him with two 
children. In September, 1867, he was again united in marriage to Catharine 
Stuckey, widow of David Stuckey.  To this union, one child was born, George G., 
who lives in Rainsburg.  Decedent still worked on his farm until 1890, when he 
moved to Everett, where be lived one year and then returned to his farm, where 
he lived until 1896, when he moved to Rainsburg, where he has since resided. 
Although sorely afflicted for some time he bravely bore the affliction and died 
assuring his friends that his suffering would turn to joy.  He is survived by 
three children, a wife, five sisters and one brother.

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