CENTRE COUNTY, PA.     STEPHEN DUNLAP Obituary

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DUNLAP, Stephen - 16 Sep 1887

			"Death of an Early Settler"

      Stephen Dunlap, of South Philipsburg, one of the early settlers of
this neighborhood, passed peacefully away on Friday morning last, at the
ripe old age of 73 years.  He was born in Chester Co., PA, September 9,
1814 and came to the vicinity of Philipsburg in 1840.  Having followed
lumbering on the Moshannon the greater part of his life, his acquaintances
embraced a large circle of friends, who sincerely mourn the loss of an
honest, upright, hard-working gentlemen, a good neighbor and a devoted
husband and father who has left behind him children imbued with his
sterling principles of integrity.
      The readers of the "Journal" are familiar with the news of the
accident that befell Mr. Dunlap on Friday, when he was knocked senseless
near the freight depot by the afternoon local "     ?    " and miraculously
escaped with his life.  His foot was run over which made the amputation of
it the only recourse.  Dr. Hobart Allport performed the operation with
remarkable skill.  In five weeks' time Mr. Dunlap was walking on it the
same as ever.  He had been up and around only a short time until dysentery
set in.  It was obstinate in its nature and would not yield to medical
treatment, baffling the best practitioners in the town.  The sad end came
at 4 AM on Friday, last.  The funeral services were conducted at the late
residence of the deceased, in South Philipsburg, by Rev. Cameron, on Sun.
at 1 PM, and the interment was in the family lot at Advent cemetery, near
Kylertown.  One brother, a wife and eight children survive him:  David E.,
James, Samuel, Will, and Miles and the Misses Ella and Alice, all living in
South Philipsburg, while Mrs. Peter Commacher, a married daughter, is a
resident of Kylertown.  John Dunlap, the only brother living, was also at
the funeral.  Thus endeth the career of another of our early settlers who
are rapidly disappearing from the stage of actors after having outlived the
allotted age of man in an active and useful life.
Obit written: 23 Sep 1887
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