OBIT: John D. ZEEK, 1900, Birmingham, Huntingdon County, PA

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DEATH OF JOHN D. ZEEK.
An Aged and Respected Citizen Passes to His Reward.

  Our correspondent of Birmingham sends us the following:
  Mr. John D. Zeek, an aged and respected resident of Birmingham, died 
at the home of Mr. Emanuel Zeek, in that place, yesterday morning.  Mr. 
Zeek was born at Hopewell, Bedford county, on the 17th of February, 
1820, and at the time of his death was in the 80th year of his age.  By 
occupation he was born a forgeman and a furnaceman, and during his time 
had worked at Hopewell, Barree, Maria, Petersburg, Coleraine Forge, 
Duncannon, Tyrone Forge and Caledonia iron works, his last work being 
done at Caledonia works, then owned and operated by Mr. Thaddeus 
Stephens.  At Hopewell, on the 14th of August, 1842, he was united in 
marriage to Miss Christena Sedenbaugh, who died at Petersburg in the 
spring of 1862.  In January 1864, he was married a second time to Miss 
Margery De Witt, by Rev. Burdine Blake, of Williamsburg.  The deceased 
was the father of several children, two of whom are still in this and 
Centre counties.  His second wife died in the fall of 1887.  At a 
Methodist revival meeting, held at Petersburg, during the winter of 
1861, the subject of this sketch professed conversion and from that 
time on to the year 1890 was a loyal and consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church.  In that year he connected himself with the 
United Brethren church of this place and was a regular attendant of 
that church until impaired health prevented his attendance.  Having 
life the life of a righteous man he of course died with the blessed 
assurance of immortality beyond the grave.  The funeral will take place 
this morning at ten o'clock, from the United Brethren church.  The 
services will be in charge of Rev. M. O. Lane, of Altoona, assisted by 
the three ministers of the town, after which his remains will be 
interred in the Methodist cemetery.  In this death another landmark of 
the town passes to his final reward.

Morning Tribune, Friday, January 5, 1900