OBIT: George BLAKE, 1941, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ GEORGE BLAKE George Blake, born in Newcastle, England, May 18, 1877, died at his home in Salisbury, last Friday at 11:50 a.m., at the age of 64 years, 6 months and 11 days, after a long illness. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John J. Blake who were well-known and popular citizens of Elk Lick Township for many years, residing at Boynton most of the time. They came to this country when their son, George, was only seven years old. During a portion of his childhood, and also during his early manhood, George Blake worked in the coal mines of the Elk Lick region, and soon after the Spanish-American war started in 1898, he, with other young men in Salisbury and vicinity, enlisted as volunteer soldiers in the U.S. Army, but were still in training at Chicamauga Park, Georgia, when the war came to an end. In 1929 Mr. Blake was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Morgan of Meyersdale. Soon after their marriage they began keeping house in Salisbury, where they always had many friends, as well as in other places where they resided later, including Meyersdale and Pittsburgh. Five children were born to them, four of whom, with their mother, survive to mourn their loss. The surviving children are Robert John, of Media, Pa., George Franklin, Wilkinsburg, and Lee Wilson, of Pittsburgh, and Thelma, wife of George Wilkinson, of Philadelphia. Glen, the eldest son, died in 1929. He is also survived by one brother, Isaac Blake, of Boynton, and two sisters, Mrs. Andrew Robertson of Buffalo Mills and Mrs. George W. May of East Freedom. Mr. Blake, during the last 15 years prior to relocating in Salisbury last September, was a valued employe of the Equitable Auto Company of Pittsburgh, a subsidiary of a Philadelphia firm. Funeral services were conducted at the Blake home, Monday, at 2:30 p.m., by Rev. J. B. Warman, pastor of the Meyersdale and Salisbury Methodist congregations, assisted by Rev. A. J. Replogle of Salisbury. Earl H. Opel Post, American Legion, accorded Veteran Blake of the War with Spain military burial rites, at his grave, and the funeral was attended by some of his army comrades, including his captain, Ernest O. Kooser. Interment was in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery, under the direction of W. C. Price & Son, morticians, of Meyersdale. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. Mr. Blake and family were much devoted to each other which makes their bereavement the harder to bear, but time eventually heals all grief stricken hearts. Meyersdale Republican, December 25, 1941