OBIT: John PIPER, 1870, Gaysport, Blair County, PA

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DIED - PIPER - DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN - Died at his residence in 
Gaysport, on Sunday the 10th inst., about 10 o'clock, P.M., Col. John 
Piper, in the 71st year of his age.  He was born in Shippensburg, 
Cumberland county, in 1800, went to Bedford county about 1818, married 
Miss Julia Fletcher, daughter of Jacob Fletcher, Esq., of that place, 
in 1819 and was engaged for some years in the mercantile business, in 
Bedford and Somerset counties, and in the transportation of the U.S. 
Mail.  In 1839 he was appointed Weighmaster on the Allegheny Portage 
Rail Road, under the administration of Gov. David R. Porter, and moved 
to Gaysport.  He was afterwards towards the close of his 
administration, appointed Superintendent of A.P.R.R.  His wife died in 
1838, leaving him four children, two sons and two daughters.  He never 
remarried the second time.  He continued to reside in Gaysport to the 
time of his death.  He was an active, industrious and energetic man up 
to within 4 or 5 months of his death, when he became confined to his 
room.  The cause of his death was scirrhus or cancer of the stomach.  
He was a man of an ardent, sincere------, warm in his friendships  and 
bitter in his prejudices.  Few men were more ardent and constant in 
their friendships.  He was an excellent husband and father and 
neighbor.  He had many warm friends who were much concerned for him 
during his illness, and who most sincerely lament in his death.  His 
manners were kind and cordial, but dignified, his vivacity and 
cheerfulness remarkable: he  never became old in spirits, and had 
always a kind word, or pleasant joke, for his friends.  He was equally 
well acquainted and kind and social with the old and the young, and his 
society equally courted by both.  His death will cause a void in the 
social circle which it will be hard to fill, and will be sincerely and 
universally lamented.  Some time before his death he attached himself 
to the M. E. Church, and died in the faith and hope of the christian.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, July 13, 1870