OBIT: William S. HOAR, 1895, Blair County, PA

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LOCAL BREVITIES.

W. S. Hoar, of Red Oak, Iowa, a former resident of this city, and at
one time a shop clerk at Tyrone, died July 1 of acute indigestion.  He
has some relatives still residing in Blair county.  The funeral took
place at Red Oak on July 4, 2018

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, July 9, 1895, page 1

The Late W. S. Hoar.

We are in receipt of a letter and papers from Mrs. Lizzie Hoar, of Red
Oak, Iowa, relict of the late William S. Hoar.  Mrs. Hoar states that
her late husband did not accumulate a fortune in the west, but she is
left with a comfortable home and some available means for the support
of herself and family.  Mr. Hoar was held in high esteem at his
western home, as he was in the east.  As an illustration of this we
quote from obituary articles in recent issues of Red Oak papers as
follows:

W. S. Hoar, manager of the Red Oak Butter & Egg Co., died last Monday
at the sanitarium in Waterloo where he had been for several months
under treatment for diabetes.  Mrs. Hoar received a telegram Sunday
afternoon summoning her to his bedside and she took the evening train.
When she reached there he was unconscious and died in a few hours.  W.
S. Hoar was a highly esteemed business man of Red Oak, having been
secretary and business manager of the Red Oak Butter & Egg Co. for a
number of years. He was born in Mifflin county, Pa., March 17, 1845.
For a number of years he was an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad
company at Altoona and Tyrone, holding positions in different
capacities prior to coming west in February, 1879.  In that year he
located on a farm in Fremont township, Page county, where he remained
until 1880, but was forced to quit farming on account of feeble
health, when he removed to Red Oak.

He came with his family to Iowa fourteen years ago, settling on a farm
on the line between Page and Montgomery counties.  Five or six years
ago he moved to this city to assume the management of the Red Oak
Butter & Egg company.  Early in life Mr. Hoar united with the
Methodist church and remained ever an active, influential member of
that organization.  He was particularly interested in Sunday school
work, for the past two years having served as superintendent of the
Methodist Sabbath school in this city.  Mr. Hoar was a gallant soldier
in the war of the rebellion.  He served nearly three years, first with
the 125th Pennsylvania volunteers, and later on with the 176th Ohio
Volunteers.  He was severely wounded at Antietam and again in the
battle at Fort Fisher.  In private life, Mr. Hoar was a man of the
highest character - always of a jovial disposition, friendly and
companionable to all.  Few men have the faculty possessed by him for
gaining and retaining warm friendships; few men in any community could
be more sincerely mourned.

He leaves a wife and two daughters.  Four of their children are dead,
two of them dying on the farm in Page county within a week, and two of
them in Red Oak but a short time ago in the same week.  These
misfortunes preyed upon Mr. Hoar grievously, and being added to by his
own failing health was no light burden for him to bear.  Yet he was of
a sunny disposition in his home and among his associates, and he made
friends easily and quickly, all of whom now mourn his death and extend
warmest sympathies to the members of the bereaved household.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Wednesday, July 17, 1895, page 4