OBIT: Joseph Rupert CODER, 1914, Confluence, Somerset County, PA

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Coder, Joseph Rupert

  Joseph Rupert Coder, aged 69 years, died Monday morning at 5 o'clock at his 
home in Confluence, after an illness lasting about a year. His death was due to 
hardening of the arteries. The funeral took place at 1 o'clock Wednesday 
afternoon; the services were conducted by Rev. L. W. LePage, pastor of the 
Confluence Methodist Episcopal Church. The deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. 
John Coder and was born at Mendon, Westmoreland County in 1845 and removed to 
Somerset County about 1872. He located at Ursina, where he conducted a general 
store for 35 years, before going to Confluence several years ago. The deceased 
and Miss Mary Critchfield, a sister of Hon. N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of 
Agriculture of Pennsylvania, were married about 1868 in Middlecreek Township. 
Mrs. Coder died at Ursina in December, 1909. Mr. Coder is survived by two sons 
and a daughter.

Meyersdale Commercial, Nov. 5, 1914