OBIT: John A. FLECK, 1898, Blair County, PA

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JOHN A. FLECK DEAD.
An Esteemed Resident of Sinking Valley Dies of Pneumonia.

John Anderson Fleck died at his home at Skelp, in Sinking Valley, at 6
o'clock last evening, of pneumonia from which he had suffered about a
week.  He had been in poor health for some time previous to the attack
which resulted fatally.

Mr. Fleck was born April 10, 1837, and at death was aged 61 years and
9 days.  He was a farmer by occupation, and passed most of his life in
the quietude of Sinking Valley.  He saw stirring times, however,
during the civil war, serving his country in Company G, Fifty-third
Pennsylvania regiment, from October 29, 1863, to June 30, 1865.  The
deceased was a consistent and devout christian, having been a member
of the First Lutheran church of Tyrone.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Fleck; one sister, Mrs. Delilah
Hestler, of Bennet, Iowa; and a brother, Thomas Fleck, of Tipton.  The
funeral will take place Thursday morning, the cortege leaving the late
home of the deceased at 10 o'clock, and proceeding to the Lutheran
church, Sinking Valley, where services will be conducted by Rev. F. L.
Bergstresser, of Tyrone.  Interment in Lutheran cemetery at Sinking
Valley.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Wednesday, April 20, 1898, page 4