OBIT: Christian B. STONER, 1918, Martinsburg, Blair County, PA

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CHRISTIAN B. STONER.

  At his home in Martinsburg, Christian B. Stoner died at 5 p.m. Sunday 
of decline due to advanced years.  Mr. Stoner was one of the oldest and 
most widely known residents of Morrison's Cove.  He was a son of John and 
Lydia Brumbaugh Stoner, and was born October 18, 1838.  He was married 
February 6, 1862, to Miss Virginia Metzger, who died March 25, 1883.  The 
following children of this union survive: Mrs. A. M. Smouse and Isaac 
Stoner, of Martinsburg; Mrs. Ida Hoover, of Akron, O.; Howard Stoner, of 
Sherman, O.  On April 2, 1892, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Falkner, 
who survives, with one son, Harvey, at home.  Two brothers also survive - 
David, of Lannok, Ill., and Levi, of New Berlin, O.
  The funeral service will be held at the Brethren in Christ church, 
Martinsburg, on Wednesday afternoon at 1:30.  Interment in Spring Hope 
cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, July 23, 1918, page 8