OBIT: George Washington REED, 1900, Yellow Springs, Blair County, PA

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GEORGE WASHINGTON REED.

  Word was received in this city last evening that George Washington 
Reed, esq., one of the most widely known of the county's citizens, had 
dropped dead on Sunday evening from paralysis, at his home at Yellow 
Springs, in Catharine township, about five miles from Williamsburg.  We 
are without any particulars either concerning the circumstances 
attending his death or of the facts of his life.  He was about 70 years 
of age, had been a resident of Yellow Springs all his life, so far as 
we know, and was a justice of the peace for a period of about thirty 
years.  He was a republican of the most stalwart sort, and so long as 
the delegate system was in vogue he was a regular attendant at every 
republican county convention.  It is probably that he attended these 
meetings from the institution of the county until the adoption of the 
Crawford county system.  It was at the meeting of the county committee 
in March, 1899, that we saw and heard from him last.  He was not 
exactly a Chesterfield in his manner at these meetings, especially if 
things appeared to be going wrong, and nobody who has ever seen him in 
his most aggressive mood will soon forget him.  Mr. Reed was twice 
married.  He is survived by his second wife and by several children, 
but we are without their names, and have no information concerning the 
time set for the funeral.  The deceased had many friends in every 
section of the county, all of whom will hear with deep regret of his 
death.

Morning Tribune, Tuesday, February 6, 1900

WILLIAMSBURG WAIFS.

  Mr. George W. Reed, in the act of driving some cattle from a field, 
was followed by a large dog that caught a calf by the throat and in 
spite of the great efforts made by Mr. Reed, held on until it was run 
through the neck with a pitchfork.  After the exertion it produced on 
Mr. Reed, he fell against the barn, never regaining consciousness or 
speaking.  This condition lasted until 3 a.m., Sunday, when his soul 
took its flight.  While but a boy, Mr. Reed made his first effort at 
self-sustaining, clerking for your scribe's father, who was 
merchandising then in the room now occupied by Mr. Norton soon after 
his father was elected sheriff and Mr. Reed made deputy.  We can not 
but add our tribute of respect to a departed friend.

Morning Tribune, Wednesday, February 7, 1900