OBIT: Samuel K. FREDERICK, 1918, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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Samuel K. Frederick

  Samuel K. Frederick, a well known resident of Hollidaysburg, died 
Friday afternoon at 4.40 o'clock at his home, 617 South Juniata street, 
of dropsy of the heart, having been ill since January 22.
  Deceased was a son of John B. and Sara Kauffman Frederick, the latter 
deceased, and was born at Henrietta, September 3, 1864, being 54 years 
of age. He was in the employ of the P.R.R. for a number of years as a 
trackman but of later years was a janitor at the Eastbound and 
Westbound humps in the freight classification yards at Hollidaysburg. 
He had resided at Hollidaysburg for the past eighteen years.
  His wife, Catherine Rinard Frederick and these children survive:  
Mrs. Sara Zimmers of Sinking Valley; Mrs. Mary Faust, of Altoona; Elsie 
and George, at home; also by the following brothers and sisters:  Adam, 
of North Woodbury, and a step-brother, Homer Frederick, of Henrietta; 
Mrs. Elizabeth Whistler, of Woodbury township; and Mrs. Susan Shelly, 
of Waynesboro and four grandchildren.
  Mr. Frederick was a member of St. John's Reformed church at 
Northfield. Short services were held at his late home at 4 o'clock on 
Sunday afternoon and the body taken on the 9 o'clock train on Monday 
morning to Curryville, where services were held at the Cross Roads 
church. Interment in the cemetery. there.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Morrisons Cove Herald Obituary 
Collection
Morrisons Cove Herald, Friday, October 11, 1918