OBIT: Henry FICKES, 1908, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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HENRY FICKES,

Father of Manager W. B. Fickes of the Union News company, a well known
retired shopman and prominent as a civil war veteran, died at 12:20
o'clock this morning at his house, 113 East Ninth street, after
several weeks' illness of diseases incident to old age.  Mr. Fickes
was 81 years of age, was born in Greenfield township, Blair county,
January 3, 1827, and came to Altoona in 1848, having resided in this
city ever since.  He was twice married, having first married Miss
Susannah Peck on August 15, 1848, and having eight children to this
union, three of whom are living.  His wife died in 1860 and on March
16, 1862, he married her sister, Miss Lydia Ann Peck, to which union
six children were born, and three of these also survive.  He was thus
the father of fourteen children and had also twenty-three
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.  At the outbreak of the civil
war Mr. Fickes enlisted in company F, Forty-ninth Pennsylvania
volunteers, and served until the close of the war.  He was a member of
Post 468, Grand Army of the Republic, and also a member of the Eighth
Avenue Methodist church.  He was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad
company for over thirty-two years, serving almost twenty-five years in
planing mill No. 2, where he worked at the time he was placed on the
pension roll, February 1, 1900.  He was a good husband and a kind
father and was much respected by all who knew him.  He is survived by
his wife and the following children: Jennie of Williamsburg, Harry W.
of Mason City, Iowa, W. B. of Lakemont, John of Juniata, S. E. of
Altoona and Lizzie at home.  The funeral will take place from his
residence, at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, interment being made in Oak
Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Saturday, February 8, 1908