Death Notices of William Stroud LINDLEY & Walter Washington LINDLEY (1918); Chester County, Pennsylvania Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Dan Lindley . Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* 07 Oct 1918 As a result of the prevailing epidemic, two sons of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lindley, First avenue, died on Saturday. The elder son, William Stroud Lindley, aged 41 years, of Harrisburg, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, was taken ill last Monday after staring on his run east, and was taken from his engine and placed in a hospital at Lancaster. He had been stricken with influenza, which developed into pleural pneumonia and typhoid fever, and his death occurred at noon on Saturday. The other son, Walter Washington Lindley, aged 35 years, of Chester, spent the previous week with his parents here, and at that time had a cold. He returned home Sunday evening a week ago, and the latter part of the week his cold developed rapidly into pneumonia, from which he died about midnight, a few hours after his older brother. Both men were born and reared here, William, under the influence of his uncle, Frank Entrokin, a veteran engineer, when to Harrisburg at the age of 16 and entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad company and has been an engineer for more than twenty years. He married there and his wife died about three years ago leaving him with a daughter, Katharine, now 12 years of age. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers and other organizations. Walter, the second son to died, had been employed at the forge of the Parkesburg Iron Company until two weeks ago, when he returned to Chester, where he had formerly worked, and took up a position there. His wife and a small son, William, survive him. The two brothers were highly esteemed here and their deaths come as a shock in the townspeople who knew them well. Their mother, living here, is recovering from an attack of the same disease and was able to sit up a while yesterday. Besides their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Lindley, three sisters survive, Mrs. P. D. Shoemaker, 604 West Second avenue; Miss Hanna Lindley and miss Elsie Lindley, at home. Both bodies will be brought here, and a double funeral will be held from the home of their parents. -------------------------- 09 Oct 1918 LINDLEY.-In the Chester County Hospital, on October 5, 1918, Walter Washington Lindley, aged 36 years. Relatives are invited without further notice to attend the funeral from the home of his parents, George W. and Mary J. Lindley, 527 First avenue, Parkesburg, Pa., on Wednesday, October 9, at 2 o’clock. Funeral strictly private. Interment in Octoraro Cemetery. -------------------------- 10 Oct 1918 The double funeral of Wm. S. and Walter W. Lindley was held from their parents’ home here yesterday. Services were in charge of Rev. W. P. VanTries and Walter Lindley’s pastor, from Chester. The former’s pall bearers came from Harrisburg and Parkesburg, while Walter’s came from Chester. A quartet from the two sets of bearers sang. Flowers were there in profusion. Private interment was made at Octoraro. During the service their father, who has been stricken with the same disease since the death of his sons, was permitted to dress, but not to leave his room.