OBIT: Patrick FLYNN, 1903, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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PATRICK FLYNN DEAD.
After Much Suffering Passed Away at His Home on Lincoln Avenue.

  Patrick Flynn died at his home, corner Lincoln Avenue and Tenth 
street, at five minutes past 11 Wednesday morning.  He had been a 
sufferer from liver and kidney trouble for a long time, being very ill 
about five years ago, from which he rallied but never fully recovered 
from the attack.  On the 13th of February last he again became severely 
ill, and with the exception of a couple days a few weeks ago had since 
been confined to his home, being bedfast most of the time.  His 
suffering was severe but his patience constant.  The funeral will take 
place from St. Matthew's church Saturday morning, the hour to be named 
later.
  Patrick Flynn was one of nine sons and a family of thirteen children, 
of John and Avesia Kingston Flynn.  He was born in Miramichi, New 
Brunswick, on January 1st, 1833, and was therefore aged at death 70 
years, 9 months and 13 days.  In the year 1855 the elder Mr. Flynn and 
family removed from New Brunswick and settled in Clearfield county, the 
home being at Jamesville [Janesville], where the parents lived to the 
end of their days.  Owning large tracts of timber land, Mr. Flynn and 
sons engaged for many years in the timber business, the son Patrick 
especially developing into one of the greatest lumbermen of the 
Clearfield region, acquiring very considerable wealth and dispensing it 
with a most liberal hand.
  Mr. Flynn was married to Miss Robie Jane Sturtevant in the year 1865, 
who died in the year 1876.  To the union were born two sons and two 
daughters.  One son and one daughter with their mother have passed to 
the eternal world.  The other two survive and are John Flynn and 
Roberta Flynn, both residing at the family home in Tyrone.  Mr. Flynn 
was married a second time, on August 7, 1879, to Miss Clara Sneeringer, 
daughter of the late Pius and Eliza Sneeringer, of Tyrone.  No children 
were born to this union.  Five of the brothers and one sister preceded 
the subject of this sketch to the grave.  The surviving brothers and 
sisters are: Daniel Flynn, of Parkersburg, W.Va.; Paul Flynn, of 
Colorado; Hon. James Flynn, of Altoona; Mrs. Lydia Flanders and Mrs. 
Levi Smith, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Margaret Chaplin, of 
Houtzdale.  
  Patrick Flynn, as stated above, was one of the greatest of Clearfield 
lumbermen in the days when almost all other business of Clearfield 
county centered and depending on the hewing down and floating to the 
eastern market of the vast forest of tall trees on the Allegheny 
mountains.  He retired from the business about the year 1888, and has 
lived in Tyrone a partially retired life since that time, though he had 
been a resident of the place since the early seventies.  He was widely 
known as an honorable business man and he had many warm friends.  He 
was a devoted husband and father, and severe is the blow today to his 
most devoted wife and the two surviving children.  Not always are 
sympathy and charity so fully developed in a person as they were in Mr. 
Flynn.  When his means were plentiful he was most liberal in sharing 
them with others.  His friendship was strong and earnest, though he was 
not demonstrative.  His death is a sore affliction to the family and 
will be sincerely regretted by the community.  He was from childhood a 
member of the Catholic church, and since making his home here his name 
has been on the roll of the St. Matthews society of Tyrone.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., October 15, 1903