OBIT: Jacob Bouslough WERTZ, 1906, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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JACOB B. WERTZ
Veteran of the Civil War Passed Away Last Saturday

  Jacob B. Wertz, one of Tyrone's best known citizens, died at 1:45 
o'clock Saturday afternoon, at his home, corner of Twelfth street and 
Woodland avenue. His demise resulted from a complication of diseases 
culminating in abscess of the stomach. His serious illness extended 
over two weeks.
  Jacob Bouslough Wertz was born at the Loop, in Frankstown township, 
November 14, 1841, and was aged at death 65 years and 24 days. He was a 
farmer and carried on his occupation on Piney creek, near Alexandria 
and at Schoenberger, removing from the latter place to Tyrone in the 
spring of 1890. During his residence here he was a teamster.
  On October 20, 1870, he was united in marriage to Sarah J. Wagner. 
His wife, who survives him, has long been an invalid, and the present 
bereavement comes with crushing force upon her. They have ten children 
to mourn the father's passing away: Roy L., of Turtle Creek; Harry C., 
of Pitcairn; Solomon G., Jacob, Mary, Dessa, Jannetta, Sarah and Pearl, 
all of Tyrone. His is also survived by three brothers, S.T. Wertz, of 
Charter Oak, Iowa; Phillip Wertz of Hollidaysburg; and Calvin Wertz, of 
Altoona; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret McCune, of Pittsburg; Mrs. Julia 
Hileman, of near Hollidaysburg; and Mrs. Gloria Loudon, of Sinking 
Valley; and three half-sisters, Mrs. Ida Tippery and Miss Lulu Wertz, 
of Altoona, and Mrs. Leonore Wagner, of Piney Creek. His step mother, 
Mrs. Lavinia Wertz, resides in Altoona.
  The deceased served his country faithfully in the Civil War as a 
soldier in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, being in the service 
from August, 1863, until the war's close. He was an exceptionally fine 
horseman. Mr. Wertz took great interest in Grand Army affairs and was a 
member of Col. D. M. Jones Post 172, of Tyrone. He was a good 
Christian, holding membership in the Lutheran communion since he was 
sixteen years of age. He was a member of the First church of Tyrone. 
Devoted as husband and father, honest in all his relations with his 
fellow-man, genial, energetic and public-spirited, Mr. Wertz will be 
generally and regretfully missed from this community. He was a 
particularly patient sufferer, enduring the great pain of his last 
illness with wonderful fortitude.
  The funeral will take place at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the 
late home of the deceased, Rev. F. L. Bergastresser conducting the 
service. Interment in Tyrone cemetery. The home has recently been 
quarantined owing to the illness of a grand child who has just 
recovered from diphtheria. The quarantine will be lifted tonight, and 
there will be no restrictions upon the family and relationship in 
attendance at the funeral, thought services are not expected to be 
entirely public in character.

Tyrone Daily Herald, December 10, 1906

Additional Comments:
Jacob was the son of Solomon and Mary Ann (Bouslough) Wertz.

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