OBIT: Philip M. WOLESLAGLE, 1904, formerly of Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg Pa
Friday May 27, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 22

Philip M. Woleslagle 

  Philip Miles Woleslagle, a former resident of Wilmore, died at 10 
o'clock Saturday night at his home in Martinsburg, W. Va., aged 
seventy-nine years.  The cause of his death was general debility.  The 
deceased was born in Center County, but located in Wilmore when he was 
a boy, conducting a grist mill there for many years.
  The deceased is survived by his second wife, whose maiden name was 
Elizabeth K. Blanck, a daughter, Sarah J., wife of F. J. Pringle of 
Conemaugh and a son, Perry J. Woleslagle of Altoona, the latter the 
organizer of Company H., Fifth Regiment, National Guard of 
Pennsylvania.  Miss Mary Ann Forsythe, a granddaughter has been making 
her home with the Woleslagle family since she was five weeks old, and 
Mrs. Clarence E. Berry of Johnstown who also made her home with the 
family for some years is another granddaughter.  There were six 
children in the Woleslagle family, three of the boys and one of the 
daughters having preceded their father to the grave.
  Philip M. Woleslagle was a private in Company G., One Hundred and 
Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Rebellion.  He 
enlisted August 29th, 1862, and in December 1863, he was transferred to 
the Veteran Reserve Corps.  Perry J. Woleslagle, the only living son, 
also fought in the Rebellion.