OBIT: William T. BUCHANAN, 1940, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM T. BUCHANAN

  It is with much sadness that the writer announces the death of William T. 
Buchanan, who ended his earthly pilgrimage within the last few months, in a 
hospital in Kingsport, Tenn., in which city he had his home with his son-in-law 
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bushrod W. Hagy, for a number of years.  His death 
was caused by hardening of the arteries, which developed gangrene, and took the 
temple of his soul to the grave in his 86th year.
  The news of his passing was brought here to the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 
Maust, by the younger of his two daughters, Mrs. Irene Shunk, of Westminster, 
Md., only a short time ago.
  Mr. Buchanan was a native of Philadelphia, where his earthly remains were laid 
to rest; but was a resident of Salisbury about nine years.  He will be 
remembered by many persons in Salisbury and vicinity as the genial and efficient 
superintendent of the Standard Extract Works, later named the American Analine 
and Dye Works, an industry which flourished about a decade ago in West 
Salisbury, and employed a goodly number of men at good wages.  He left here with 
his estimable family about the year 1900, and for many years thereafter 
superintended larger industries of the same kind at Stokesville, Va., and 
Newport, Texas.
  To know Mr. Buchanan and family was to hold them in the highest esteem, and 
Salisbury never had a finer or friendlier family, ranking high in intelligence 
and everything that makes for nobleness of character.
  Mr. Buchanan enjoyed excellent health until his noble wife preceded him in 
death by two or more years.  After that his health began to fail.
  To learn of his death will still be news to many of his friends in Salisbury 
and vicinity, even though these lines were written several months after his 
lamented demise.
  "Green be the turf above thee
     Friend of my better days,
  None knew thee but to love
         thee,
     None named thee but to 
         praise."

Meyersdale Republican, December 26, 1940