Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....WHARTON, James A.  March 12, 1931
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Friday, March 13, 1931
pp. 1-2

James A. Wharton

ALTOONA, March 13 – James A. Wharton, 87, Civil war veteran and for many years 
a prominent resident (Continued on Page two)  of St. Augustine, Cambria 
county, died Thursday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leroy T. 
Farabaugh of 128 East Twenty-fifth avenue following a stroke of apoplexy which 
he suffered Saturday.  He was the father of 17 children, 11 of whom survive.

Mr. Wharton was a veteran of Co. A, Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania volunteers and 
served four years in the Civil war.  He was held in Andersonville prison for 
(illegible) months.  Mr. Wharton held  (illegible) in St. Augustine.  He was 
twice married.  His first wife, Mrs. Margaret McDermott Wharton, died in 
1885.  His second wife, Mrs. Mary R. Dodson Wharton, passed away at St. 
Augustine, October 4, 1914.

He is survived by the following children by the first union: C. J. Wharton, 
Lorain, O.; Gertrude Wharton, Tyrone; Mrs. James A. McCoy, Turtle Creek; 
Marcellus Wharton, Clearfield township.  The following children survive by the 
second union: Margaret Wharton, Altoona; Mrs. Leroy Farabaugh, at whose home 
he died; C. E. Wharton, Barnesboro, Cyrus Wharton, Clearfield township; Mrs. 
Earl Doyle, Ingleview, Col.; Thomas J. Wharton, Akron, O.; Mrs. Irvin Stoltz, 
Carrolltown; O. J. Wharton, Dysart; Mrs. Julian Burley, Bradley Junction, and 
Joseph Wharton, Akron, O.

Funeral services probably will be conducted Monday morning in St. Augustine's 
Catholic church at St. Augustine.  Interment will be in the church cemetery.


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