OBIT: John COLLIER, 1916, Riggle's Gap, Blair County, PA

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JOHN COLLIER

  At his home in Riggle's Gap, John Collier, one of that region's 
influential citizens, died at 5 o'clock Sunday evening of diseases 
incident to advancing years.  Mr. Collier was born April 26, 1836, 
being more than 80 years old at the ending of his life, all of which 
had been spent in the homestead where he was born.  He was widely known 
as a man of great physical strength.  A woodsman by trade, he had 
cleared many of the tracts of timber in this vicinity, some of them the 
second and third time, hundreds of acres of forest falling before his 
axe.  He had been largely instrumental in the erection of a new Church 
of the Brethren in Riggle's Gap, which has just been completed.  His 
funeral will be the first service to be held therein and his memory 
will long be treasured by friends who esteemed him so highly during his 
life.  Sixty years ago he was married to Miss Christina Nail, who 
survives him with the following children: A. B. and Mrs. Annie Price, 
of Bellwood; Mrs. Hannah Chambers, of Greenwood; Miss Rosie, at home.  
Twelve grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive, and a 
brother and two sisters - Nathaniel Collier, of Mill Run; Mrs. Jane 
Glunt, of Altoona; and Mrs. Mary Sutton, of Hollidaysburg.  Funeral 
service will be held at the new church at 2 o'clock Wednesday 
afternoon.  Interment in Asbury cemetery.  The obsequies are in charge 
of Funeral Director G. E. Fuoss, of Bellwood.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, January 1, 1917