Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Weakland, John, Sr. October 15, 1854
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Democrat and sentinel: (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866: October  19, 1854
Died at his residence in Carroll Township on Sunday the 15th day of October, John
Weakland, Senior, in the 98th year of his age. The deceased emigrated to this County
in 1798, and leaves but few of the pioneers of the Mountain Wilderness behind. He
found Cambria a dense forest occupied only by wild animals, and lived to see it made
by the untiring industry of man, the happy home of thousands. No man contributed
more to develop the resources of this County by patient toil and prudent economy
than him. The life of John Weakland would be a history of this County, after living
for many years in the neighborhood of Loretto, be removed with his numerous family
to "Hart's Sleeping Place," where be died...  His descendants numbering over one
hundred and forty in children, grand and great grand children have the consolation
to know that the evenings of his days were truly happy, and that he received the
call to the Spirit land in such a manner as convinced all who surrounded him that
his death was an epitome of his life. 

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