OBIT: Orlando FLESHER, 1927, formerly of Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ken Bair [ken- bair@comcast.net] Jan 16, 2010 Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ ORLANDO FLESHER Orlando Flesher, 77 years and six months old, died at four minutes past midnight Sunday at the Uniontown Hospital. He had been a patient there for several weeks. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Adam Flesher and was born April 25, 1850, at Weston, W. Va. He went to Salisbury where he worked as a blacksmith until he retired. He had resided in this community for a number of years. Mrs. Fletcher [Flesher] died two years ago. He was a member of the William McKinley Lodge of Odd Fellows here and also belonged to the Knights of Pythias at Salisbury. The following children survive: Emery of Kenmore, Ohio; Ira, of this city; Dennis of Oliver No. 1; Ray of Loudensville, Ohio; and a daughter, Mrs. C. E. Stewart, of Pittsburgh. One adopted son, Dan Flesher of Kenmore, Ohio, also survives. The Weekly Courier, Connellsville, December 8, 1927. [Note: The references such as Oliver No. 1 are to mine communities.]