OBIT: David Rhodes WIKE, 1910, Roaring Spring, Blair County, PA

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Former Tyrone Citizen Died At Roaring Springs.

  On Thursday evening at 6.12 o'clock the spirit life of David R. Wike, 
of Roaring Springs, a brother of Michael Wike of Tyrone, passed into 
rest.  Mr. Wike has been a patient sufferer the past two years from a 
complication of diseases. David R. Wike was born at the old Wike 
homestead near Williamsburg, Pa., about sixty-eight years ago. After 
receiving a good common school education besides assisting his father 
on the farm, he located in Roaring Springs, where he has resided ever 
since with the exception of a short time spent in the, west.  Mr. Wike 
worked in Tyrone when the first paper mill was built in Tyrone in 1880; 
afterwards he very acceptably filled the position as  boss mill-right 
of the present paper mill for several years.  After he became a 
resident of Roaring Springs, he became a stockholder of the D. M. Bare 
Paper company and was also prominently connected with the bindery.  
About twenty-two years ago, he was united in marriage to Miss Maggie 
Rolf, of Mill Hall, who, with one son, Jesse Wike, survives the husband 
and father's death. He is also survived by one brother Michael Wike, of 
Tyrone and two sisters, Mrs. Nancy of Martinsburg, and Mrs. Lena 
Thompson of Clappertown.  The funeral services will be held at his home 
at Roaring Springs on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment in 
Greenlawn cemetery. 

The Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., July 7, 1910