OBIT: Charles DEPUTIE, 1868, former resident of Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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African Repository
February 1868

Death of Charles Deputie. - Died at his residence, in Carysburg, on the 
afternoon of August 8th, of dropsy, Mr. Charles Deputie, aged 58 years, 5 
months.

  Mr. D. was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, March 9, 1809.  His 
parents removed in 1810 to Pennsylvania.  Here they died before he reached his 
tenth year.  Before he arrived to the age of manhood, he began to work in 
the "iron works" of "Barre Forge," where, by accident, the large sledge-hammer, 
used in pounding the ore for smelting, fell upon him, breaking one of his legs 
in two places and the other in three, which marks he carried to his grave.  He 
came to this country on a visit in 1852.  Being pleased with the condition in 
which he found the country, he came to the conclusion to make it his home.  He 
returned to America in the early part of 1853.  And embarked again for these 
shores, with his wife and six children, landing in Monrovia, December 18, 
1853.  He and family removed to Marshall.  From thence he went as one of the 
first volunteers to Carysburg, to which place he moved his family in February, 
1858.  He embraced the religion of our Lord at the age of twenty-five years and 
joined the M. E. Church, of which he was a useful member for many years, but 
the last five years of his life he was connected with the Presbyterian Church.  
He leaves a widow and six children to mourn his loss.

Extracted from the African Repository

Additional Comments:
Charles Deputie lived in Huntingdon County, where some of his children were 
born, as well as Hollidaysburg.  His wife, Nary Ann (Molson) Deputie, was from 
Lewistown.  Charles Deputie died in Careysburg, Liberia, Africa.

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