OBIT: Joseph STOKE, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOSEPH STOKE

  Joseph Stoke, retired business man and Civil war veteran, died at 
3:45 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 2710 Broad avenue, after an 
illness of several weeks, due to advanced age.  He was born in Adams 
county, September 26, 1845, and was the son of George and Matilda 
Stoke, both deceased.  He came to Tyrone with his parents early in life 
and was reared in that city.  He established a general mercantile store 
with John E. Templeton at Spruce Creek in 1871 and remained there until 
1873 when he went to Shenandoah, Ia., engaging in business in that 
city.  He returned to his native state in 1889 and located in this 
city, and became bookkeeper for his brother, William Stoke, a planing 
mill operator.  In 1907, Mr. Stoke started a grocery store at 2708 
Broad avenue and conducted it until December, 1916.  He wedded Miss 
Lucy E. Austin, of Mahopac Falls, N.Y., on September 23, 1873.  She 
survives with a daughter, Mrs. Annie L. Brode, of this city, and two 
brothers, George, Adams county, and Samuel, of Mt. Vernon, O.  The 
veteran enlisted with Company K, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
near the close of the Civil war.  He was unable to get into service 
before owing to his youth.  Mr. Stoke was a charter member of the Broad 
Avenue Presbyterian church.  Funeral services will be held at his late 
residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Burial will take place 
at Oak Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday morning, March 3, 1917