OBIT: Matthew FLAIG, 1919, Williamsburg, Blair County, PA

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MATTHEW FLAIG

Special to the Tribune.
  Williamsburg, February 20. - Matthew Flaig, an aged resident of
Williamsburg, died Thursday morning at the East Penn hospital,
Pittsburg, of emphysema.  He was admitted for treatment December 21,
after having previously undergone two operations at the Altoona
hospital, and one at the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia.  He was
born December 20, 1844, in Germany, coming to this country at the age
of 18 years.  Since that time he had severed connections with the land
of his birth.  In youth he was associated with the Schwab Woolen
mills, a flourishing industry at Clover Creek during the '60s.  Later
he conducted a carpet weaving establishment at Williamsburg.  Since
the construction of the paper mill in 1905, he had been employed as
shipping clerk until March 1918, when he gave up his work on account
of ill health.  In politics he was a Republican and a staunch
supporter of the policies of the party.  For twenty-five years he
served as judge of elections at the Williamsburg polls, and was a
director of the Farmers and Merchants National bank since it was
organized in 1909.  He was married in 1866 to Mrs. Rebecca Woodcock,
who was Miss Kylor, and who died August 13, 1910.  One brother, John,
of Altoona, survives, as do these sons and daughters: Mrs. Harry
Hamilton, Juniata; Mrs. Anna Baker, of Altoona; William J., Mrs. James
Shell, Mrs. William Allender, John H., all of Williamsburg; Mrs.
Elizabeth Bray and Samuel K., of Pittsburg, and Carrie, of Tyrone.
The body will be brought to Williamsburg on the Friday evening train
and taken to the home of his son, John H., on High street, where the
funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Interment in
the Presbyterian cemetery at Williamsburg.

Altoona Tribune, Friday, February 21, 1919, page 5

WILLIAMSBURG.

  The funeral of the late Matthew Flaig, who died at the West Penn
hospital, Pittsburg, Thursday, occurred Saturday afternoon at the home
of his son, John H. Flaig, on High street, when a large concourse of
people gathered to pay their last respects to one of the town's oldest
residents in point of residence, and an esteemed citizen.  Services
were conducted by Rev. J. M. Rearick, pastor of the Lutheran church,
interment was made in the Presbyterian cemetery, Williamsburg.

Altoona Mirror, Thursday, February 27, 1919, page 9