OBIT: Solomon BRANT, 1913, Allegheny Township, Somerset County, PA

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Brant, Solomon

CIVIL WAR VETERAN BURNED TO DEATH - Solomon Brant, well known veteran of the 
Civil War, was burned to death last Wednesday morning about 2 o'clock at his 
home in the mountains of Allegheny Township. His eagerness to rescue a chest 
containing his savings, between $300 and $400, it is believed to have been the 
cause of his remaining inside the burning dwelling until escape was cut off. The 
dwelling as well as the chest of money was reduced to ashes. About two o'clock 
the aged man noticed that a small sheet-iron stove pipe which ran from the 
kitchen through the roof was overheated and that the ceiling was ablaze. In a 
small chest in the attic was the money. He and his wife made frantic efforts to 
extinguish the blaze and when they realized that they were helpless in fighting 
the fire the old man started for the attic, using the only means a ladder, by 
which it was accessible. The charred remains of Mr. Brant where (were?) taken 
from the ruins by Undertaker Johnson, of Berlin. Besides the son who lived with 
him, Mr. Brant is survived by a son William, of Somerset; a daughter, Mrs. David 
Faust, of near Berlin; John of Somerset township, and Samuel of Berlin.

Meyersdale Commercial, Dec. 25, 1913