OBIT: David W. MADERA, 1917, McKee, Blair County, PA

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DAVID W. MADERA.

  Captain David W. Madera, Civil war veteran, retired carpenter and 
resident of McKee, died at 9 o'clock, Tuesday night of pneumonia, at 
his home.  He was ill a week.  He was born at Claysburg, May 1, 1840, 
and when the Civil war arose, the veteran formed Company I, Fifty-fifth 
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and became captain.  
Following the war he was a carpenter and contractor.  His wife died 
twenty-two years ago and he is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Cora 
Giarth and Mrs. Margaret Dively, both of this city; Mrs. Luella Myers, 
of Bloomfield; Mrs. Minnie Walter, residing in the western states, and 
Miss Musa Madera, of Johnstown.  The veteran was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church and Henry R. Lower post G.A.R., Roaring 
Spring.  Funeral services will be announced later.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, February 15, 1917