OBIT: Clara (BROWN) STIFFLER, 1921, Canoe Creek, Blair County, PA

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MRS. CLARA STIFFLER.

Wife of Harrison T. Stiffler, the well-known Civil war veteran residing 
at Canoe Creek, and mother of former County Commissioner W. Howard 
Harpster, died on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock at the family home at 
Canoe Creek. Mrs. Stiffler had been in feeble health for the past six 
years, suffering from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Stiffler's 
maiden name was Clara Brown and she was born June 11, 1843. She was 
twice married, her first husband, William Harpster, a soldier in the 
Union army, died in one of the Rebel prisons in the south during the 
war. To this union, one son was born, W. Howard Harpster, former county 
commissioner, residing at Canoe Creek. She was united in marriage with 
Harrison T. Stiffler some time after the close of the Civil war and had 
resided in the present home at Canoe Creek ever since. The funeral 
services will be conducted in the United Brethren church at Canoe Creek 
on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be made in the 
cemetery adjoining the church.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 21, 1921