OBIT: Samuel FUNK, 1893, Sinking Valley, Blair County, PA

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Death of Samuel Funk

  Samuel Funk, one of the most widely known farmers of Sinking Valley, 
died at his home near Arch Spring at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, after a 
brief illness from pneumonia.  Funeral services at his late home 
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, will be conducted by Rev. R. H. 
Gilbert.  Interment in Birmingham cemetery.
  Mr. Funk was the son of Henry and Mary Funk, early pioneers in this 
section, was born near Huntingdon Furnace, December 4, 1830, and at 
death was aged 62 years, 4 months, and 11 days.  He leaves to mourn 
their loss his wife, Eliza, two daughters and one son, viz:  Mrs. 
Adeline Keefer, of near Birmingham; Mrs. Clara Atlee, of Sinking Valley 
and Blair, who had his home with his father; also his mother, three 
sisters and four brothers, his mother Mary Funk whose home is at 
Coleman's Mills; Mrs. Susan Smith, who makes her home with her mother; 
Mrs. Eliza Hagerty, of Altoona and Mrs. John M. Smith of this town; 
James P., of Philadelphia, David of Altoona, Blair of Altoona and Harry 
B., somewhere in the west.
  The familiar face of Samuel Funk will be greatly missed in Tyrone.  
He was a man of sunny, genial disposition who knew not how to speak an 
unkind word.  Upright and industrious, he was worthy and respected 
throughout this section.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., April 17, 1893, page 4