OBIT: George Henry McCRACKEN, 1917, Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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GEORGE H. McCRACKEN

  At his home in Bellwood, George H. McCracken, one of the substantial 
citizens of that town, died at 11 o'clock Friday morning of 
indigestion.  Mr. McCracken had been in frail health for a long time, 
but the end came rather suddenly and was a great shock to the 
community, especially so soon after the death of Banker R. L. Scott, 
both men being members of the Presbyterian church and prominently 
connected with the town's interests.  George Henry McCacken [sic] was 
born at Elizabethtown, N.J., March 15, 1876, a son of William and 
Rachel McCracken.  He was a veteran of United States service in Cuba, 
the Philippines and also in China during the Boxer rebellion.  In 1904 
he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Jeffries and since that time 
had been a resident of Bellwood.  He was a machinist by trade and had 
been employed at the Kerbaugh plant and later by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad company.  For six years he had not worked at his trade, but 
was always active, even when his health would scarce permit.  He was a 
member of the Presbyterian church, a faithful every day Christian, 
kindly in heart and life.  He belonged to the Bellwood lodge of Odd 
Fellows and Maccabees, to the Y.M.C.A. and the Chamber of Commerce.  
For several years he had served the borough as assessor.
  Surviving are his wife, his father, William McCracken, a brother 
William, and four sisters - Mrs. Fred Cron, Misses Flora and Jennie, 
all of Elizabethtown and Mrs. Frank Davis, of Fall River, Mass.
  Funeral service will be held at the home, 320 Boyles street, at 10:30 
Monday morning.  Interment in Logan Valley cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, February 17, 1917