OBIT: John D. GORLEY, 1891, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

  Another of the old residents of our community passed away yesterday 
morning at 5 o'clock, when John D. Gorley peacefully fell into the 
eternal sleep.  Mr. Gorley was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1812, 
and was aged within a few days of 79 years.  He came to this country in 
1824.  He learned the trade of shipbuilding in Philadelphia.  In 1835 
he came to Hollidaysburg, where he has ever since resided.  He engaged 
in boat building and became a member of the Phalanx Boat company, which 
did a large business here for many years.  In 1868 Mr. Gorley suffered 
a stroke of paralysis, from which his left side became paralyzed, and 
last January he received another stroke, from the effects of which he 
died.  In 1837 he was married to Miss Sarah Taff, who, with seven 
children, namely, Matilda, wife of Thomas Hartsock, of Newport, 
Kentucky; Hannah, wife of Henry L. Bunker, of this place; William, who 
is in the west; Sallie, wife of Frank Hartsock, of Yanett, Indiana, and 
Thomas M., Mary and Amelia, all of this place, survives him.  In early 
life he connected himself with the Presbyterian church and he died in 
that faith.  He was a man of strong convictions and unwavering faith.  
Patient in suffering and meekly submissive to the chastening hand of 
affliction, his downward path to the grave was made bright and easy by 
the kind ministrations of his loved ones.  Funeral services will be 
held at the family residence in East Hollidaysburg this afternoon at 4 
o'clock.  Interment in the Presbyterian cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, April 11, 1891