OBIT: Samuel LEWIS, 1897, of interest in Blair County, PA

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DIED SUNDAY MORNING
An Old Citizen of Bald Eagle Valley Passed Away.

  Samuel Lewis, an old and highly respected citizen of Bald Eagle 
Valley, died at the old Lewis homestead, near Dick's [Dix], just over 
the Blair county line in Centre county, at 1.18 o'clock yesterday 
morning.  Mr. Lewis had been in delicate health the past years but was 
severely ill only a few days, gangrene, which affected the heart, being 
the immediate cause of his death.  Born November 16, 1823, the deceased 
was 73 years, 3 months and 11 days old at death.
  Samuel Lewis was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lewis, who removed 
to the Bald Eagle Valley when Samuel was a lad of two years.  From that 
tender age the deceased was a constant resident of the Hickory bottom 
settlement.  About 48 years ago he was married to Miss Ella Beamer.  To 
the union were born fifteen children, eleven of whom survive the 
father.  John Lewis, it will be remembered, died in Tyrone about two 
years ago.  The other three died in childhood.  Mrs. Lewis survives her 
husband, and following are the names of the surviving sons and 
daughters: William, Joseph, and Wilson Lewis and Mrs. John A. Newman 
and Mrs. Andrew Friday, of Tyrone; Mrs. H. R. Woomer, of Bald Eagle; 
Henry Lewis, on the old homestead in Bald Eagle Valley, and Robert, 
Sanford and Samuel H. Lewis, and Mrs. H. H. Ganoe, of Jersey Shore.
  Deceased was one of the most substantial citizens of the Bald Eagle 
valley.  He was somewhat retired in disposition, but always took a live 
interest in the affairs of his community, his township and the country 
at large.  He was a life long member of the Hickory Bottom M. E. 
church, in whose affairs he was always active.  As a professor of 
Christianity he was consistent, and as a neighbor and citizen he was 
kind, trustworthy and honorable in all things.  In his death the 
community in which he spent almost all his life loses a man whose good 
works will be lasting in the memory of those who survive him.
  The funeral will occur tomorrow at 10 a.m.  Services will be held at 
the Bald Eagle M. E. church, and interment will be made in the cemetery 
adjoining the church.  The services will be conducted by Rev. V. T. 
Rue.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Monday, March 1, 1897