OBIT: John Wesley CARPENTER, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN WESLEY CARPENTER

  John Wesley Carpenter, a well known Pennsy shopman, died at 1:30 p.m. 
yesterday at the Grand Hotel, Sixth avenue and Second street, of heart 
trouble.  He was employed as a blacksmith at the Fourth street shops for the 
last quarter century.  He was born January 6th, 1850, at Loysburg, and 
wedding Miss Sarah McDonald forty years ago.  She survives with these 
brothers, Harry Carpenter, Bedford; David, Adam and Joseph, of Roaring 
Spring, and a sister, Mrs. Marie Price, also of Roaring Spring.  A step-
daughter, Mrs. E. S. Henry of Bellwood, also survives.  He was a member of 
the Fourth street Church of God, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, 
Improved Order of Red Men and the Sons of Veterans.  Funeral services will 
be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the residence of W. J. Alloway, 
228 East Fifth avenue.  Burial in Greenwood cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Thursday, February 27, 1919, page 8