OBIT: George Wareham MATTERN, 1900, Seven Stars, Huntingdon County, PA

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George Wareham Mattern
DIED AT THE SEVEN STARS IN HUNTINGDON COUNTY LAST WEEK
 
  The venerable George W. Mattern, after a long and useful life, died 
at the home of his son, John S. Mattern, on what is known far and wide 
as the old Mattern homestead at Seven Stars in Franklin Township, 
Huntingdon County, Pa., about 8 o'clock, June 20, 1900.  The immediate 
cause of death was heart affliction, from which he had suffered the 
past three or four months,  though he had been failing in health the 
past few years.   He was aged at death 90 years, 8 months and 5 days.  
George W. Mattern was the son of Jacob and Jane Wareham Mattern, and 
was born on the 15th of March, 1810, on the Mattern homestead where he 
lived all his life and finally died.   He was a thrifty farmer and 
succeeded well in life. He was married three times.  His first wife was 
Miriam  Stevens; the second, Jane McPherran, and the third Nancy Haugh. 
He was the father of three children, of whom the second wife was the 
mother.  She died August 15,1872.  One daughter and one son survive, 
viz:   Mrs. Dr. W. H. Flenner, of Tyrone, and John S. Mattern, who 
resides on the homestead at Seven Stars.  Albert J. Mattern, the eldest 
son, died in Tyrone on the 15th of February last.  One brother, Andrew 
Mattern, survives and resides at Huntington, Indiana.  Two half 
brothers and two half sisters also survive, viz : Mrs. Elizabeth Shoup, 
of Lorain, Ohio; Mrs. Alexander Bobb, of Martinsburg, Pa. ; William J. 
Mattern, of Franklin, Pa., and Jeremiah O. Mattern, of Hollidaysburg.  
George W. Mattern was one of the most substantial citizens of the 
section of the country where he resided all his life.   He was a member 
of the Lutheran church for seventy-two years, and an officer therein 
for fifty-three years.  His life was always consistent with his 
religious profession.  In politics he was an enthusiastic Republican 
from the inception of that party, having been a Whig before that time.  
In state and national affairs he always took a deep interest, and was 
active in all that pertained to his own locality and county.  As a boy 
he lent a useful hand in making the homestead farm the splendid place 
that it is and in later years he took care to preserve and improve it 
still further as the years came and went.  He was full of 
reminiscences, and nothing gave him more pleasure than to relate his 
early experiences in the Spruce Creek valley where wild game abounded, 
and it was an easy matter to provide the family with wild meat of any 
and all kinds whenever the larder demanded a supply.  In the Mattern 
family reunion a few years ago, George W. Mattern was a conspicuous 
figure and  took a lively interest.   He lived almost throughout the 
nineteenth century and witnessed with much interest the wonderful 
progress of the country, for he was a keen observer, and having a 
retentive memory was always well equipped for entertaining those who 
bivouacked under his hospitable roof or came in contact with him 
elsewhere.  The funeral will be held tomorrow.  Services by Reverend  
J. A. Dunlap, Ph. D. at the Seven Stars Lutheran Church and interment 
in the burying grounds adjoining, both of which were located on the 
Mattern homestead many years ago.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., June 28, 1900