OBIT: Reuben PECK, 1895, of interest in Blair County, PA

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REUBEN PECK

Died at the Pennsylvania lunatic asylum at 5 o'clock on Saturday evening.  He 
was born in Lancaster on December 19, 1839, but lived in Connellsville for 
twenty-three years.  In the late war he served in Company A, 205th Regiment, 
under Captain Gwinner.  For twenty-four years past he had been a member of 
the First Lutheran church of this city.  His wife and nine children survive 
him, as follows: Mary M., wife of William Brotherton; Elizabeth M., wife of 
John Lockard, both of Altoona; there are at home Alice M., Edith B., William 
H., George W., Lydawn, Nelly G., Bessie M.; one brother and one sister, 
William Peck of Connellsville, and Mrs. Lydia Fickes, of Altoona.  The 
remains of Mr. Peck arrived from Harrisburg last night on fast line and were 
taken to his late home.  The interment will take place Tuesday afternoon at 2 
o'clock.  Funeral services at the church in Connellsville, interment in 
Connellsville cemetery.  All friends of the deceased are respectfully 
invited.

Altoona Mirror, February 11, 1895